Avagantamos
10.10.14 | discuss |
Judio!
10.10.14 | My favorite will always be Macbeth, but I'm biased because I actually performed in that. R & J gets a bit of a bad rap these days, but i love that one too. I don't love Hamlet as much as most but it's a great read as well. I've also read/seen productions of The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It, the former of which I'm not crazy about but As You Like It is actually pretty hilarious. |
Gameofmetal
10.10.14 | I'm taking shakespeare in college now, and I've learned a ton about writing in general and storytelling that I never expected to. We are starting with comedies, and have done The Taming Of The Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and As You Like It, all interesting and funny and complex, but we will get to histories next and then tragedies. We aren't doing the comedy of errors because my teacher says it's impossible to actually teach. Watching it is fine, but reading is impossible to teach. |
Gameofmetal
10.10.14 | I've of course read R&J and seen Macbeth I think. Both good. |
TheSupernatural
10.10.14 | I read Hamlet in high school, as well as a couple others, but Hamlet beat all of them |
Alastor
10.10.14 | Othello for me. The lines of Iago done right are a feast of bitter sarcasm and perfect cynicism. |
Gameofmetal
10.10.14 | Oh yeah I did Othello in high school. cool stuff.
I appreciate everything I read in college vs. high school more because in college we actually analyze it and figure out the underlying meanings and messages. |
YetAnotherBrick
10.10.14 | Everything he did is so fucking chock-full of beautiful substance that it's almost unbelievable, but I'd say Hamlet is my favorite, just because the layout of the story seems so...quintessential. King's brother kills king. King's brother takes throne. Prince knows he needs to do something but can't decide what or when. And don't forget about Ophelia, Hamlet. And then it ends in a complete shitstorm as a result of everybody's character flaws and horrible decision-making. It's the perfect portrayal of human stupidity and over-indulgence, but it's beautiful at the same time because of all the marvelous poetry. It's a work of art that doesn't age. But of course, nothing of Shakespeare ages; he knew how to engineer his art that way |
beefshoes
10.10.14 | I'm a massive Shakespeare geek. Othello and Hamlet are my favorites from what I've read, but I still need to read/see the remaining comedies and all of the histories aside from Richard II and III. |
ArsMoriendi
10.11.14 | I saw people do The Comedy of Errors live in central park. Only Shakpeare play I've seen being performed, though I've
read Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Julius Ceaser.
Out of those The Comedy of Errors wins... |
Frippertronics
10.11.14 | In Love |
tempest--
10.11.14 | the tempest |
danielito19
10.16.14 | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is basically just retellings of hamlet |
ShadowRemains
10.16.14 | the fucking tempest |
ScuroFantasma
10.16.14 | Hamlet probably, Romeo and Juliet is pretty good too despite how much it's been copied. |
Onirium
10.16.14 | I've only seen/read Hamlet, Macbeth and Midsummer Night's Dream. They were all excellent, but I'd say
Macbeth is my favorite |
Clumseee
10.16.14 | Yeah Macbeth is definitely the best. |
Havey
10.16.14 | king lear |
someguest
10.16.14 | I like that one Shakespeare work with coitus and murder. |
Kman418
10.16.14 | i used sparknotes for the entirety of macbeth |
DrMaximus
10.16.14 | Lmao, Animal Farm is like 90 pages |
jtswope
10.16.14 | Othello… probably followed by Macbeth. |
InbredJed
10.16.14 | Much Ado About Nothing is amazeballs, and Tempest and King Lear, and Macbeth.
my favourite however, has always been The Merchant of Venice. |
ScuroFantasma
10.16.14 | Macbeth has lots of murder and stuff which is cool but Hamlet is just badass and imo it's a lot deeper than Macbeth, it's also Shakespeares longest play. |
WeepingBanana
10.16.14 | best tragedy, macbeth
best comedy, twelfth night
as far as histories i've only read henry v but it was pretty great |
ChoccyPhilly
10.16.14 | Twelfth Night all the way! |
Rice303
10.16.14 | Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet were both read at school when I was younger, I guess I enjoyed Macbeth, just took me a while to get used to the old language/wording |
JoylessBastard
12.15.14 | For me it's Othello, partially due to the fact that Iago is an absolutely masterful character. To be fair the only Shakespeare I didn't enjoy as much was Anthony and Cleopatra. |
Crymsonblaze
12.15.14 | Not an original answer, but definitely Hamlet |
SharkTooth
12.15.14 | what I've read ranked:
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Comedy of Errors
Julius Caesar
Romeo and Juliet(I really don't like this play tbh) |
ExplosiveOranges
12.15.14 | Romeo and Juliet is meh agreed |
SharkTooth
12.15.14 | Hamlet has so many great moments in it, Hamlet's soliloquy about that one actor's speech is probably my favorite moment tbqh
"Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty and appal the free," |
SharkTooth
12.15.14 | all of them are better when watched tho |
DominionMM1
12.15.14 | how do you make the king lear?
put the queen in a bikini |
Friday13th
12.15.14 | Favorite: Macbeth
Least favorite: Gentlemen of Verona |
Rowan5215
12.15.14 | Julius Caesar is mad underrated y'all also list is old |
Friday13th
12.15.14 | Yeah Julius is probs best history. lol so is Shakespeare and you don't see me whining. |
Rowan5215
12.15.14 | s'truth
Cassius is the sassiest (dank rhymes bruh) character in Shakespeare and I love it |
zoso33
12.15.14 | Richard III |
danielito19
12.15.14 | what fool dug out this corpse |
unclereich
02.22.21 | unranked favs:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Winter’s Tale
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
King Lear
Much Ado About Nothing
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