Favorite Shakespeare Play

[crule81]

Mine is Othello. I just love the Iago character. Pure evil.

[waxwing]

In order

1. King Lear
2. Macbeth
3. Taming of the Shrew

[Claverhouse]

Coriolanus.


It defines the Hero and defines the others: the mob-democracy.



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[Edmond Zedo]

Hamlet II

[Claverhouse]

Although the emphasis on Shakespeare leads to a lot of other good stuff in the English canon being left out. We had to do Volpone in Eng. Lit. at school, by Ben Jonson. Not bad.

Certainly as a portrayal of a proto-free-market libertarian captive in a society that doesn't appreciate these things, it's brilliant.



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[Edmond Zedo]

I can't remember liking a word of Shakespeare. I consider his work trite, condescending, and perhaps "bourgeois"? I wonder if anyone agrees with me, because I haven't found one yet.

[Claverhouse]

My mother detests Shakspear.


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[Serotonin]

Hamlet and Othello

[Claverhouse]

I can't remember liking a word of Shakespeare. I consider his work trite, condescending, and perhaps "bourgeois"? I wonder if anyone agrees with me, because I haven't found one yet.
Antony Burgess wrote a lot about William; particularly on language.



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[Edmond Zedo]

Antony Burgess wrote a lot about William; particularly on language.
What'd he think of the guy? I'm not so familiar with Burgess' work, even. I'm a Kubrick fan.

[gypseymothlee]

Twelfth Night

[Johnny]

Henry V was the first play I saw that got me interested in Shakespear's work, so I'll call it my favorite.

[jimkopelli]

I always get a kick out of people complaining that the plays are full of cliches... and then someone asks them "How do you think they got that way? Who do you think brought them into usage?"

[Edmond Zedo]

I always get a kick out of people complaining that the plays are full of cliches... and then someone asks them "How do you think they got that way? Who do you think brought them into usage?"
Those idiots!

[Dman]

I never got into Shakespeare, not sure why. Maybe it had to do with the fact that when reading King Lear, 3/4 of the text page was describing what 2 lines meant. It got a little bothersome after a few thousand pages.

[Robespierre]

I never got into Shakespeare, not sure why. Maybe it had to do with the fact that when reading King Lear, 3/4 of the text page was describing what 2 lines meant. It got a little bothersome after a few thousand pages.

Annotated books can be terrible. I have set of annotated Sherlock Holmes stories, and let me tell you! If you were to read every damn note in the book, you might never even remember a character named Holmes. The author goes on and on and on about continuity issues, possible meanings of trivial phrases, and every other goddamn thing you can imagine. Skip over the notes where you don't need them to understand the actual plot.

[jimkopelli]

I liked The Tempest until I had to play Prospero in class (as well as pronounce words for 9/10ths of the other characters... bah) I like his comedies more than his others, but I haven't really read that many of the less famous plays.

[s]

Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing are my favs.

[Biff_Loman]

Call me conventional, but I like Hamlet.

Twelfth Night made me laugh quite a bit, but has a host of other qualities which put it in second place for me.

King Lear is supposed to be the best, according to critics, but I was bored to tears. Screw literary criticism; I can't be made to care whether an old king is an s.o.b. to his daughters. I took enough English courses to know I'm not an uncultured Philistine and that I enjoy and appreciate Shakespeare. We read King Lear in a third university course I took. Blah.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is intoxicating, to me. I think Shakespeare must have been in a similar situation to my recent drama, in which I was in love with my wife's best friend for ages and ages. I finally got my chance, when my wife and I decided to call it quits, so I ran after her best friend and learned that she had more feelings for me than I had suspected. At which point my wife decided she wanted me back, then we decided to break it off again. . . The whole thing created an alternate reality zone in which the real world didn't matter. I was in love with two women, though tired of one and dreaming of a better future with the other. Nothing was important except figuring out what to do with my inexplicable impulses.

Now that everything's settled down, it feels like Puck had been at work, and the whole thing was really just a dream. . .

[Slider]

twelfth night fer sure.

[Chill]

I'm a Kubrick fan.

And here I am thinking you were a Malcolm McDowell fan!

Oh and to stay on topic, I guess I have to say A Midsummer Night's Dream, because I actually played in that in high school, and it was one of the funnest experiences of my life.

[Wolfchylde]

Macbeth is my favorite easy. I do like most of them though with Hamlet coming in second.