What is your favorite play by Shakespeare?
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Re: What is your favorite play by Shakespeare?
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My least favourite is Titus Andronicus - too gory.Lincolnshirelass wrote: ↑02 Feb 2018, 05:36 Please may I open a side-alley on this and ask about your LEAST favourite Shakespeare play? For me it has to be 'As You Like It' - though I am prepared to admit it may date way back to having it taught excruciatingly badly at school, perhaps if I saw a really good production of it it might help. Ironically, Rosalind is one of my favourite names!
I'm quite a fan of As You Like It, so I'm sorry you were put off it at school, but my favourite comedy is Twelfth Night. I could watch that again and again.
Tragedies? There's a special place in my heart for King Lear which I did at A level, but I also love Hamlet and Macbeth.
The play I most enjoy teaching is Measure for Measure.
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Lets take Romeo, everyone's romance hero throws Rosamund out of heart, minc and sight for Juliet's beauty (he fell for Juliet at first sight). Even more amusing are the serenades at windowsills from our unfaithful hero. If i were Juliet, i would say "lt's great that you love me but couldn't you do this declaration of love and identity debate at a more reasonable hour of the day?"
Moving on to our female lead, Juliet stabs herself to follow Romeo in death which I must admit took great compunction. But the lesson? If you ever need to fake your death please do make sure your messages to your loved ones dont get lost. Failing that, please try to think of treating them and doctors before you start kissing.
I love Romeo and juliet. It is the best comedy written by Shakespeare.
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Brilliant !So take your penalty of a pound of flesh, but if you shed one drop of Christian blood when you cut it, the state of Venice will confiscate your land and property under Venetian law.
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Otherwise, because I read it at the right time, Hamlet has my heart. However, I haven't gone through all of Shakespeare so this is my tentative answer for now.
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I definitely think that's why this play, in particular, was popular amongst my classmates - the sparing with words was just so fun to read and watch!swirlofink wrote: ↑04 Feb 2018, 15:54 My favorite Shakespeare play is Much Ado About Nothing. I read it and watched a movie adaption my senior year of high school and I just liked how fun it was. I think it fit well with the trend in literature that was heavily rising then, with the sarcastic witty women protagonists. At least for me that's how it felt.
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