What's your favorite Shakespeare play

[sexy-girl]

hope i can get away with starting this thread i love shakespeare since my english teacher got me hooked on it at school im not as nuts about it as her ... but i have enjoyed the plays that i have seen and i love reading shakespeare and learning about it

my fav is midsummers nights dream i know people say its easy but i like it and i think it does have just as many hidden depths as the other plays i've seen it 3 times

others i've seen are macbeth, othello, king lear and romeo and juliet

 

[Myrrdin]

That one.

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[Mellon Collie]

I love Macbeth, I just pray it won't be made into a cheesy modern movie aimed at young teenaged girls. (i.e., O and ten things I hate about you). Although I have to admit the remake of Midsummer's Night Dream and Romeo and Juliet weren't that bad at all.

 

[HARDKOREBJ]

hard to choose just one

hamlet or romeo and juliet

 

[Problem Child]

Is it just me, or do the words "HARDKOREBJ" and "Shakespeare" seem odd in the same context?

 

[salinaoaks]

Midsummer Night's Dream...

I played "Bottom" in an amateur production...and I'm a woman.
I asked the director if our little community could handle a woman making love with the Queen of the Fairies. He said, "No problem, you'll have a donkey head on." Hmmmmmm.

Shakespeare really knew witches.

 

[lilminx]

My favorite one is "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as well. I did a few research paperson it in college (Eng. Lit major) and fell in love with the play. I saw "The Donkey Show" in NYC over the summer- it's a 70's roller disco takeoff of it- it was great!
I forgot- I also saw it on Broadway a few years ago- amazing!!!!

 

[nasty]

Macbeth wins, HANDS DOWN!!!!!!!!

 

[sexy-girl]

Is it just me, or do the words "HARDKOREBJ" and "Shakespeare" seem odd in the same context?

i think its about as odd as Shakespeare and sexy-girl being in the same sentence


nice pick myrrdin im not saying that they shouldnt make Shakespeare into movies but Shakespeare is meant to be a PLAY they are so much better watching them in a play format

 

[za_boy]

shakespear

merchant of venice is my all time...it really showsw how the greedy eventually suffer through that sin. not romantic, but a beautiful brutal story of morals

 

[sch00lteacher]

King Lear.

I guess I feel sorry for old dudes, as I are one.

 

[Guest]

Titus Andronicus

The original horror show ...

 

[Natalie Nessus]

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[~justin]

I saw Titus, the "remake" of Titus Andronicus, this weekend.

WOW.

DOUBLE WOW. Easily one of the most most powerful movies I've ever seen. Quite possibly the most powerful movie I've ever seen.

I think, though, that my favourite Shakespearean plays are: Othello and Much Ado About Nothing.

 

[Natalie Nessus]

" Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar,
but never doubt I love" - Hamlet

 

[loki]

As You Like It
Midsummers nights dream
Henry V

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes...

 

[Guest]

Ah, another subject I love!

For me, I acted in three Shakespeare productions in junior high, when I was with my family in on an RAF airbase in England. Even got to see two of the plays performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford on Avon...

I played Polonius in "Hamlet" (stabbed through the curtain), then Banquo in "Macbeth" (dragged offstage to 'die' horribly), then I was Cassius in "Julius Caesar" (got to stab someone ELSE for a change!) Heheh.

Funny, though I've acted in three of the Bard's trageties, I love is comedies and romances the best! "Much Ado About Nothing" ranks as my favorite (the Ken Branagh version was excellent!), along with the recent "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Kevin Kline was a HOWL as Bottom, and Stanley Tucci did very well as Robin Goodfellow/Puck)...

I also love "A Comdey of Errors" and "Taming of the Shrew"... the classic version with Liz Talyor was one of the best! The CoE was once performed by a cast of jugglers, acrobats and contorsionists on cable once... the highlight of that was the Flying Brothers Karamtzof were the prime actors for the two Masters and Dromeo's... ^_^

What does anyone else think?

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"'Against my will, I am to beg thee come into dinner'... (grins slyly) There's a double meaning in that!" - Sir Benidict, Much Ado About Nothing.

 

[Lord Emu]

I really liked Othello. I was kind of suprised to see an interacial relationship back then. I myself see nothing wrong with it but considering how a lot of people feel about such things in this day and age I imagine it was worse back then. The funny thing is my interest in reading Othello came from watching a movie there was a guy who was supposed to be in Othello and they showed part of it.

 

[naudiz]

In no particular order:

Measure for Measure
Romeo and Juliet
Midsumer Night's Dream

Titus Andronicus - extra points for the movie version containing the yummy Jonathan Rhys Meyers *drool*

Winter's Tale - if for no other reason, than for containing the stage direction: exit, pursued by a bear...

 

[OUTSIDER]

Hamlet, and I actually enjoyed the Mel Gibson version !!!!

 

[Ask For More]

I like Macbeth too, and also the Terry Pratchett send up of it called Wyrd Sisters

Also a fan of Othello, which I studied in school...

 

[Glyndwr]

Hi all

I think that Shakespeare is over analysed, it was written to be performed. I've seen many different performances and if you see a great one it can become a favourite but see the same one done badly and the magic is gone.

I like:
Henry IV & V (there's a bit of me in there)
Much ado... (for the verbal sparring)
M N Dream (the workmen's comedy)

 

[La Huesera]

Taming of the Shrew

 

[Natalie Nessus]

Macbeth.


Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle.
Life's but a walking shadow. A poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by and idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing