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[captainsblog]

Emily's school year is beginning to wind down. Though we're not on the schedule of some of you/allyall, who start in August and finish around Memorial Day, June does usher in proms and finals and a reduced schedule that will have her completely done by the Solstice and then not due back again until after Labor Day.

For teachers who finished with their curriculum a bit early, days like this wind up being Fundays, and so it was in English class, where her teacher showed a video of the stage play The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Eleanor and I almost went to this last time we were in London, but in hearing Em tell about it, I was reminded that we have an even more abridgier version of the Bard's complete dramatic works.  It's a 1989 Aardman animation, directed by Barry Purves, which fits all 34 plays into a roughly five-minute window. And while our duly purchased copy is hiding somewhere in the useless VHS vaults of this house, someone done gone and YouTubed it:

If you click the embedded video whilst it is playing, you'll be directed to the YouTube location for the thing, where the description lists all 34 plays in the order they appear here. How many did you recognize?


Henry V (sortof- I knew it was one of the histories); Julius Caesar; Antony & Cleopatra; Coriolanus; Henry VIII; Romeo & Juliet; Henry IV; Richard II; Henry VI; Richard III; Troilus & Cressida; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Hamlet; Othello; Titus Andronicus; The Tempest; As You Like It; Macbeth; All's Well That Ends Well; Taming Of The Shrew; Much Ado About Nothing; Merry Wives Of Windsor; The Merchant Of Venice; King John; Love's Labour's Lost; King Lear; Pericles; Comedy Of Errors; Two Gentlemen Of Verona; Twelfth Night; Timon Of Athens; Winter's Tale; Measure For Measure & Cymbeline.

Comments

[lisaofdoom.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, my brother and his friends are putting on that play this weekend. o_o

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

My mom's last day was today. She sent me a text reading "I'm free!"

What day do they start back, since they go so late into the summer? Do they offer year-round school, with three week breaks in between?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Once Herself finishes her finals in a coupla weeks, she's done until the Wednesday after Labor Day. "Summer school" in these parts means one of two totally opposite things: remedial classes for those who failed a required course and don't want to fall behind in the programme, and enrichment courses for the really geeky kids who wanna take things like AP Chemistry in the summertime when the beakers are hotter and more likely to blow stuff up;)

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much what our summer school consists of, too. Unfortunately, whenever I had to teach it, I always got the former, and not the latter. :-P