[Al the Vykker]

Have any of you ever read Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare? If you have then you have my deepest sympathies.

We have an exam tomorrow on Much Ado About Nothing. We have been building up to it for about half a year now, and throughout the whole time, I haven't bothered listening to the teacher at all, or doing any work, I've just sat talking to my friends. I am normally a good student who always does his work and is well mannered as many of the teachers write in my reports. But when it comes to Much Ado About Nothing, I just don't care. It's the most boring thing I have ever had the displeasure of reading. I've had to work my ass off revising tonight but I keep getting distracted by just about anything, even if there's a fly outside my window.

We've been given the kind of questions we'll get, and most of them are completely stupid questions. The ones that irritate me the most are 'Why do you think the writer chose to write this play?' So he could get some cash. Or 'Why do you like this Story?' I don't. I hate it.

And then you have the seriously irritating one worth 20 marks, and they want you to give a two paged answer, yet you can sum the answer up in one sentence.

Another problem I have, is when we have to read shakespeare for an exam (First 15 minutes are for reading, next hour is for exam). I read it but it doesn't register in my brain, I get so bored with it my mind wanders off, so the words I am reading have no meaning.

And we were told to revise the play. Revise a play? How can you do that? I understand revising Science and Maths and History, because you are revising the facts that could be useful for an answer. But revising a play? It's a comprehension. How can you revise for a comprehension?

Which brings me to the pure idiocy of the exam. How is a comprehension supposed to prove your intelligence? It's a matter of looking in a book and writing it in the answer booklet.

Does anyone else have these problems or is it just me who thinks like this?

Fuzzle Guy

My friend at school was actually an actor in the Shakesphere local productions and they did this play it was pretty good hard to understand in the environment (was performed in a church).