What is your favorite work of Shakespeare?

[GrimTuesday]

Just gonna keep the OP simple, What is your favorite Shakespeare play?

Mine is MacBeth. I loved reading about Macbeth and Lady Macbeth slow decent into madness. Also I love the line, "Despair thy charm; and let the angel whom thou still hast served tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd."

 

[A Weary Exile]

I haven't read much Shakespeare but I really liked Macbeth and Julius Caesar, they both dealt with themes (Lust for/abuse of power, guilt, betrayal, etc.) that I found interesting.

 

[Hashime]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.188726-Poll-What-is-your-favourite-play-by-Shakespeare

My opinion.

 

[Dukenstein]

Hamlet and Julius Caesar. A Mid Summer nights dream was also great and Othello and Rom and Juliet are classics. Kings Lear is also good and then there's MacBeth..bah the list goes on.

 

[RedRussian]

Comedy of errors. Who doesn't love a good laugh?

 

[kingcom]

Im a big fan of Romeo and Juliet, not for the romance but for the examination of teenage lust within an environment of cultural hostility. Makes some interesting parallels between problems existing today.

 

[mcl323]

I prefer Henry the 5th. Whenever I read/hear the St. Crispin's Day Speech it sends the right kind of shivers up my spine.

 

[-Drifter-]

Yeah, Macbeth wasn't bad. Romeo and Juliet I didn't like and Hamlet bored the hell out of me. Those are the only ones I've read.

 

[Kortney]

The Merchant of Venice is my favourite.

(I'm trying hard to contain my excitement. I'm a huge Shakespeare nerd).

 

[Geekiest]

Twelfth Night. Few people have heard of it, and while it starts slow the final act is sheer, Shakespearian genius. All his favorite humorous plot devices dancing about on one stage. Exciting and hilarious.

 

[GrimTuesday]

The Merchant of Venice is my favourite.

(I'm trying hard to contain my excitement. I'm a huge Shakespeare nerd).

I've never read or seen that particular play but it seems pretty messed up from the synopsis on Wikipedia.

Release the excitement, Who doesn't love to talk Shakespeare? oh yeah, almost everyone I ever went to school with...

 

[Hader]

The Merchant of Venice is my favourite.

(I'm trying hard to contain my excitement. I'm a huge Shakespeare nerd).

Have a biscuit to calm yourself.







Mine would have to be Titus Andronicus. Probably due to the Roman setting and all but I liked it for much more than that.

Though the movie rendition was...odd, to say the least.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[AvsJoe]

I read four of them in high school (Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, MacBeth, Hamlet) and one on my own (The Taming of the Shrew) and I didn't really enjoy any of them. Of the five, my favourite is Midsummer because I loved Puck.

 

[Astoria]

I'm possibly the only person on planet earth who's finished high school yet not read/seen a single Shakespeare story.

 

[GrimTuesday]

I'm possibly the only person on planet earth who's finished high school yet not read/seen a single Shakespeare story.

D: how did you manage that? I know people who would give their firstborn child to be able to say that.

 

[Astoria]

I'm possibly the only person on planet earth who's finished high school yet not read/seen a single Shakespeare story.

D: how did you manage that? I know people who would give their firstborn child to be able to say that.

Haha, just how it worked out with me moving schools. The first school I went to saved Shakespeare for year 11 and the school I moved to did it in year 10. Some of my friends are green with envy

 

[PurplePlatypus]

?Much Ado About Nothing?.
My least favourite is either ?Romeo and Juliet? or ?Othello? if only because of the bloody handkerchief.

 

[GrimTuesday]

I'm possibly the only person on planet earth who's finished high school yet not read/seen a single Shakespeare story.

D: how did you manage that? I know people who would give their firstborn child to be able to say that.

Haha, just how it worked out with me moving schools. The first school I went to saved Shakespeare for year 11 and the school I moved to did it in year 10. Some of my friends are green with envy

You missed out on some great literature, especially Macbeth. (I really like that one...)

 

[Bloodastral]

Romeo & Juliet closely followed by Othello and The Tempest.