janis
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Post by janis on Jul 10, 2013 5:12:32 GMT
Can you guess what Shakespeare play this served as a set for? C&C welcome.
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Post by kenc on Jul 10, 2013 13:18:52 GMT
My guess would be one of the histories - I can see them putting one of the kings at a desk in a modernized version. I'm not familiar with them so I couldn't possibly guess.
I like the processing, but I might darken the carpet on the left, which I didn't notice at first.
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Post by janis on Jul 11, 2013 4:44:07 GMT
Thanks, Ken. You know, it didn't even click with me that the plywood was a piece of carpet. I guess I couldn't see it from where I was seated during the play, and I was cursing it for cluttering up my image.
Anyhow, you're right; the play was Julius Caesar, and this set was Brutus's office. The portrait is of Caesar. I love these lines, spoken by Brutus in Act 2, Scene 1. (Cassius has convinced Brutus against all evidence that Julius is a tyrant in embryo.)
Th' abuse of greatness is when it disjoins Remorse from power. And, to speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections swayed More than his reason. But ’tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face. But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. So Caesar may. Then, lest he may, prevent.
Talk about your pre-crime! Not to mention forgetting from whence you came. A speech for the ages, I think. (Sadly.)
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