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Re: What is your favorite play by Shakespeare?

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My favs are The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer's Night Dream, although both Hamlet and Macbeth are worthy options.

If anybody hasn't had the pleasure of watching The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) it is free to watch on YouTube and is a fabulous (and hilarious) play to Shakespeare lovers! The other great one to watch for anybody who has read Hamlet is the 1990's film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
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Oooh, it's a hard tie between Macbeth and Othello. I couldn't say what makes them stand out for me other than the fact that I've picked them both to shreds, finding every tidbit of meaning possible.
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Oh man, which Shakespeare play don't I like? Granted, I haven't read them all, but I adore A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and of course Romeo and Juliet. They all have such great components and interesting characters. I've been meaning to read Macbeth and Othello, they're always highly recommended.
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I love Shakespeare’s comedies, especially Twelfth Night! It is so clever and ahead of its time. My high school did a post-apocalyptic version of it that was incredibly entertaining
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My favorite play is Mid summer night's dream because I love good comedy. But, I also love hamlet , when it comes to tragedies.
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I love almost all of Shakespeares plays that I have read, but my favourites are definitely Macbeth and Othello. I love how the use of manipulation is portrayed and how it can go so badly for the manipulator in Macbeth. I find I love the storyline in Othello, but I found it so thrillingly frustrating that he did not believe his wife. I guess I just love the power plays and machinations in these plays the best.
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I've read almost all of Shakespeare's plays, and most of his poetry too. But there are a few I just couldn't force myself to finish, like Titus Andronicus :snooty: It just dragged too much for me. I'm not a fan of tragic Elizabethan/Jacobean plays (I think reading The Duchess of Malfi by Webster for A Level just killed by ability to appreciate a good tragedy!), but enjoy a few of Shakespeare's but definitely prefer to watch rather than read his historical plays. His comedies, on the other hand, I can watch or read happily and enjoy almost all of them. My absolute favourite though is the shortest, Comedy of Errors. It is genuinely funny and one that I can share with people who aren't Shakespearean fans because it is easy to understand. :tiphat: I wish I got to see more Shakespearean plays being performed, but sadly I live out in the country and we don't get enough culture here! :oops: lol
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I think I've read Macbeth at least three times, but lately Titus Andronicus has been giving it a run for its money. There's so much that happens in that play and it has what's possibly my favourite exchange of all time. Also, I think Aaron is the perfect villain and no one else I've seen in Shakespeare's works comes close.
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I really liked Anthony and Cleopatra and I was severely upset when I lost my only copy. It was one of the easier plays to get through. I really enjoyed the story and the characters.
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Romeo and Juliet. I also like romance books, so go figure.
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King Lear or Macbeth for me. Never really got his comedies, though I appreciate that they can be quite funny when you see them performed, as opposed to just reading them.
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My favorite is The Merchant of Venice.
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I like a Midsummer's Night Dream but my favorite would be Romeo and Juliet.
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Much Ado About Nothing is an amazingly witty play and really fun to read. Of course, I also enjoy the popular Shakespeare plays like Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Nights Dream and also some of his sonnets.
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The themes that were portrayed in Othello allows for some very deep literature analysis and the topics in it can be fun to debate with others as it was a book that I read in a literature class and we spent multiple weeks discussing it. I've read very few plays by Shakespeare, but out of what I have read Othello was my favorite as I feel that the idea of some of his other more popular plays have been ruined by constant use of them in Hollywood.
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