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Favourite Shakespeare

Shakespeare!

  • Hamlet

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  • Julius Caesar

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  • Othello

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  • Romeo and Juliet

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  • Twelfth Night

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  • Taming of the Shrew

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  • Tempest

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  • Merchant of Venice

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  • Macbeth

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  • Other

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LiveForTheLaunch

LiveForTheLaunch

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So, which is your favourite Shakespearean play?!

I know people say oh blah blah, Shakespeare is boring and pointless, but after finishing Hamlet, I realized what a great writer he is. His work annoys me at times, particularly when I don't understand it, but usually it all comes together and is enjoyable. Out of the ones I've read, I rank them:

1. Hamlet
2. Julius Caesar
3. Macbeth
4. Merchant of Venice

Kinda sad I never got to read Romeo and Juliet, being that it is his most famous, but oh well.

PS- I only included the most famous ones in the poll.
 
Bloody hell! Taylor, writing a topic on Shakespeare? Just how much cider HAVE I consumed this evening?!

Admittedly balance was restored when I noticed the glaring omission of Macbeth from the list. Poor form! :roll:


Clearly Hamlet is the strongest play. It's very well written, full to the brim with substance, doesn't suffer from bad pacing (despite being epically long and immensely prone to deviate from the plot) and combines action, drama and comedy all into one. Yes it's very upsetting at the end but when you close the script after the final scene you really do realise just how much of a masterpiece it really is - and how good the Playwright.

Honourable mention goes to Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice and Henry V (also missing Taylor - sort it out! ;) )
 
^ To be fair, I DID mention Macbeth, but accidentally left it out of the poll option. I didn't list any of the Henry or Richard plays, because there are tons of them and I didn't know which ones were the most popular, so suck it up Neal!

Bloody hell! Taylor, writing a topic on Shakespeare? Just how much cider HAVE I consumed this evening?!
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And yes, I happen to be quite into literature thank you very much. Although, I didn't quite realize I liked Shakespeare that much until Hamlet... The end was nuts, especially in the movie version (which is FOUR hours long).
 
Well, I've only read Taming of the Shrew, and it was okay. But, from what I've heard, Hamlet seems best.
 
Dawww, the edit button is Taylor's favourite. ;)

:P xx

And yes Mr Monster, it is the best. It spawned The Lion King - nuff said :D
 
Ahhh Shakespeare, the bane of English GCSE years... :lol:

Can't say I've read many of them tbh... Did Macbeth and Romeo/Juliet and that's it... Got forced to analyse Baz Luhrmann's film version of it as well... Oh Leonardo was NOT wanted...

I preferred Of Mice and Men out of the GCSEs... Mainly cos the film version had Gary Sinise and John Malkovich <3

So out of the two I've read (and analysed to such a point that you want to rip out you eyes), I would go for Macbeth...

Old Will was an excellent writer...
 
. Got forced to analyse Baz Luhrmann's film version of it as well... Oh Leonardo was NOT wanted...
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I have that movie, but I never watched it. That made me not want to watch it even more :P .

So out of the two I've read (and analysed to such a point that you want to rip out you eyes), I would go for Macbeth...
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I know, the level of analysis you have to go through for each one is a bit ridiculous. This year wasn't too bad, we just briefly explained the important bits as a class, and analyzed the soliloquys (I can't spell this word for the life of me), which were great. In previous years with a different teacher, we had like, the SLOWEST readers reading the main parts all the time which made it so much more frustrating, but aside from Hamlet being a good story anyway, it was made better by the fact that my class aren't terrible readers :P .
 
Did Macbeth in gcse. Was ****e. Did a bit of Romeo and Juliet as well, didn't like that either.
I guess you could say Macbeth cause it was slighty less boring...
 
Only one I read was Romeo and Juliet and it was pretty decent. I might consider reading other plays on my own time though.
 
Oh the wit of Titus

Titus Andronicus, IV, ii

CHIRON: Thou hast undone our mother.

AARON: Villain, I have done thy mother.
 
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In previous years with a different teacher, we had like, the SLOWEST readers reading the main parts all the time which made it so much more frustrating
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Oh god, slow readers in class, I just can't stand it.

For me, either 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' OR 'Hamlet'.
 
Oh my God, stop saying "there's a distinct lack of such and such." I even said in my first post that I didn't include them all, so quit pointing it out, gr.
 
Has to be The Tempest for me. I have read and studied Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. I liked the Tempest when I read it, but I then went to see it and it was brilliant, and very funny.

Maybe I'm biased because I saw it when Patrick Stewart was in it!!!
 
I'm going to be honest: I don't like Shakespeare - never have, never will. However, this view is nothing seeming as though I've only read Romeo and Juliet :P

So yeah, that's my fav ;)

EDIT: I remember reading much Ado About Nothing as well :P The BBC modern adaptation with Billie Piper was epic <3 <3
 
I don't like Shakespeare as it's literally forced down peoples throats when in school which means it's hard to enjoy it. Especially when they try and make you annotate it and look far deeper into it then he actually did when he was writing it.
Why read a book when you can watch a crap cheesy BBC adaptation on the screen? :P
If I HAVE to pick though I'd probably choose the Merchant of Venice.
 
Shakespeare was a load of balls. I remember the day watching the very old R&J, when Juliet flashed a tit at the camera. The male year 9 audience nearly came at that moment...

I have seen Macbeth, R&J and the Tempest I think. There all a bit crap. Capulet and Montague fighting was funny though.
 
I imagine it would be quite difficult to appreciate the complexities of Shakespeare when one can't even appreciate the difference between "there" and "they're".

Anyway, to answer the question: Macbeth.
 
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