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What are your favorite Shakespeare plays?
I like

• Hamlet
• Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Tempest
• Macbeth
• Othello
• The Comedy of Errors
• Romeo amd Juliet

*Macbeth...Hey whatya think someone of Scots descent and descended from
King Duncan would put down first?
*Hamlet...Olivier was the best though you have to watch Jack Benny in the
comedy To Be Or Not To Be to really appreciate it.
*The Merry Wives Of Windsor...one of Shakespeare's funniest.
*The Tempest...gave Huxley the title for his novel Brave New World.
*Henry V...one of the greatest of Shakespeare's historical plays.Tom Baker
spoofs the famous 'St.Crispian Speech' in the Doctor Who ep.The Androids of Tara.

Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. ^^

Oddly, the only Shakespeare play that I've read and didn't 100% enjoy was Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet is a bit overdone these days.

I liked Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet...the only other Shakespeare I've read though is Romeo and Juliet, which I didn't like, because it has become so cliched.

MAcbeth is underrated in my opinion because it competes with Hamlet and ROmeo And Juliet for attention,and there's that silly superstitution about the name of the play.

Of the ones I've seen/read, Julius Caesar takes the top of my list. However, I have a feeling that Hamlet may top that, if I ever get to see it. XD

You may not know this...but communists are rather fond of Shakespeare. I've read a lot of his tragedies.

My fav? Oh-oh Pericles King of Tyre!!!!!! Hands down. Cleo and Mark Antony is a close second. ^_^ Gotta admire her ruling skills.

Radical Dreamer wrote:Of the ones I've seen/read, Julius Caesar takes the top of my list. However, I have a feeling that Hamlet may top that, if I ever get to see it. XD

Ooooh. I played the Soothsayer in my school's Julius Caesar Christmas play/reading thing!! I should have got an Oscar!!

What I like best about Shakespeare is that even though his playes are several centuries old, they still resonate with us today. Does anyone have havorite lines from the plays too?

Other than "Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!" I can't think of any. XD

"There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come', if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all."

"What fools these mortals be"--My man Puck
"There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamed of in your philosophy"--Hamlet

"Once more into the breach.."Henry V
"This day is called St.Crispian Day..."Henry V
"To Be or Not to be,That is the question.."Hamlet
"Out,out da..spot!"Macbeth
"Toil,toil,trouble and boil."Macbeth
"A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet."Romeo And Juliet
"Friends,Romans,countrymen lend me your ears,I have come
not to praise Caesar but to bury him,the good men do oft
dies with them.."Julius Caesar
"...'til Brinane wood come.."Macbeth
"What brave new world that hath such men in it!"The Tempest
"We are such things as dreams are made of."A Midsummer's Night Dream(I think)

Just saw a wonderful adaptation of the otherwise forgettable "Love's Labours Lost" at the National Shakespeare Theater. Far more hilarious than the Bard intended, I'm sure.

But my favorite Shakespeare remains Hamlet, if for no other reason the wordplay is fabulous.

First would be Macbeth, because Scottish people are awesome and because I really like the symbolism of the witches and Lady Macbeth. hehe, you should have seen the essay I wrote about that for English, it was really good if I do say so myself.

And second would be Hamlet, for the same reason ClosetOtaku likes it.

Go Shakespeare!!!! I love Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet is alright. I do have favorite lines....Hamlet 2.2...I memorized it!!!! Actually, I did a study on Shakespeare in my English class where I had to do my own version of Romeo and Juliet....I set it during the Holocaust, wrote a script and produced it in front of my class...it was pretty cool...I got to play Romeo's dad who was a Nazi general...who goes insane at the end and hangs himself...it was very fun to do!

Wow, that sounds awesome. do you still have the script?

The real Lady MacBeth was named Grouh(sp?)her son Lulach was briefly king between the death of MacBeth and the ascension of Malcom III.Lulach was MacBeth's stepson.The real MacBeth was nothing like the ficitonal Thane in Shakespeare's play and reigned popularly for about 17 years.It is said that during the time of his reign he made at least one pilgrimage to Rome and also that he
strewn the streets with gold while there.
MacBeth's claim to the kingship was indeed valid as he was cousin to Duncan I.

The Tempest is fun.

My fav is "much ado" and i also like "as you like it".

Aside from all that magic and fantasy the Tempest is based on an actual shipwreck in the Bahamas.

How can you top the brilliance of Hamlet ? It is endlessly quotable, with profound insight into human nature and the struggle with the ultimate purpose in life, wonderful dramaticism - you name it, it's here.

My bad I should have said Bermuda.

As far as Hamlet goes,Hamlet was the original dweeb.He's not as interesting as any of the other characters and has to be a little bit mentally disturbed to believe the story of the 'ghost'.This is why I like MacBeth better.MacBeth was a more interesting character and also a lot more sympathetic to boot.

mitsuki lover wrote:As far as Hamlet goes,Hamlet was the original dweeb.He's not as interesting as any of the other characters and has to be a little bit mentally disturbed to believe the story of the 'ghost'.This is why I like MacBeth better.MacBeth was a more interesting character and also a lot more sympathetic to boot.

I would agree that MacBeth is pretty awesome. There are some incredible lines in it, the storyline draws the reader in. And yeah, Hamlet is surely a little mentally disturbed. He's definitely got issues, but I still think his character has a lot to say to the general human experience - so I think he's pretty interesting.

But I definitely can see where your opinion comes from.

Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest and Midsummers Night Dream

My favorite would be Henry V; Kenneth Brannagh's version is heart wrenching.

MacBeth Trivia:

Best "sampled" Shakespeare: Double Trouble from HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Best borrowed title: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.