Poll: What is your favourite play by Shakespeare?

[Velvo]

DOODE I am totally into Macbeth! Not only because if you speak the name of said play aloud bad shit is supposed to happen to you, but also because of this quote I memorized from it!

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death! Out! Out brief candle! Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." MACBETH IS BADASS.

 

[The Lawn]

Macbeth, mainly due to...


But really I like most of his plays.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

Also, Macbeth, which is pretty much an Elizabethan Jacobean slasher flick.

Fixed that for you.

(Sorry. Massive Shakespeare geek. Two degrees and counting. Carry on.)

 

[Ultress]

I've read Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar, they were both not to bad but as my English teacher said Shakespeare is better seen than read and I'm inclined to agree with her. Mainly due to the fact that I love the hell out of Othello and I've only watched it. It is one of my favorites if for nothing else the awesomeness of Iago.

 

[Lord George]

Hamlet, why? Becuase the story is just plain awesome, the character of Hamlet himself is gloriously written jumping from worn nihilist to maniacal crazy person to badass killer sometimes in the same scene, and there are so many great quotes from it.

Also this

 

[NoNameMcgee]

None of them, I am an uncultured cretin.

 

[Queen Michael]

Hamlet is the greatest work of literature ever.

 

[GnomeThief]

Midsummer Night's Dream was the only one I read on my own. I was forced to read both Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet for school. I hated Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet was tolerable. I'd like to read MacBeth at some point, my brother has read it and he says its really good.

 

[Iron Criterion]

I hold King Lear up as the greatest fucking play ever. Two great storylines that merge into one to result in more deaths than a South American dictatorship. And lest we forget Edmund is the coolest villian evar.

 

[kurupt87]

I would probably enjoy Shakespeares plays greatly if I read them or saw them performed now.

Unfortunately, I have a stubborn streak in me, and that stuborn streak says that whenever I'm forced to do something I will despise it enthusiastically. Having done Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and The Tempest at secondary school (high school), I have a hatred I can't shake.

If I were to read his other plays, or even re-read the ones I'd studied previously, I would no doubt enjoy them. I have no inclination or desire to though. I can't even think of a word to describe how I feel, I just really don't want to read them. Lingering stubborness perhaps? If it is then I'm impressed with it, 6 years ago was the last time I went near a work of his.

 

[twcblaze]

honestly, I hated everything I read by Shakespeare, and I was starting to think everyone in the world was retarded for thinking of his works as masterpieces... and then I read Hamlet, maybe it was because I read it on my own and it wasn't part of a school requirement or anything, but that play just amazed me, I've read it about 5 times, and I think I might just read it again, given the opportunity.

 

[Joshroom]

I like King Lear probably the best as a play; but the best performance of shakespeare I've seen was a production of Orthello.

He, he. The Reduced Shakespeare Companies "All Shakespeare Plays in 50 minutes" was the best though. Absoloutly hilarious.

 

[Reapd]

Comedy of Errors.

 

[gigastrike]

Romeo and Juliet was the only one I've read, so that. +1 for Mercutio.

 

[Xhumed]

Macbeth, hands down. Despite having had to study it as school. I actually quite enjoy Shakespeare's plays. The Tempest is also very good, and Twelfth Night. Not all that keen on Romeo and Juliet though- has some great lines, but Romeo is such a teenage- angsty gimp.

 

[DuplicateValue]

I've only read Hamlet, and a tiny bit of King Lear, so I'm gonna have to go with them.

 

[Quaxar]

Had to read Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer night's dream once, didn't really like them, second one mainly because it was too much different what I like about him.

Then I saw a brilliant 7-hour play about the war of the roses, Henry IV. and Richard III. There's also a second one I've seen, but I don't remember the name since it was a replacement for MacBeth (guess it's true what they say about the play?).
And I've privately read Hamlet, MacBeth, Richard III. and probably more I can't recall now.

So as you can guess I really like him...

Macbeth, mainly due to...

My most favourite scene from Blackadder besides the "bullet with your name on it" one.

 

[sephiroth1991]

He's meh to me but i do like Macbeth and Hammlet

 

[Worgen]

I didnt really like hamlet or romeo and juliet it wasnt till I read titus that I started liking Shakespeare