What is your favorite work of Shakespeare?

[Taldeer]

I know it's "hip" to dislike Shakespeare (for absolutely no good reason I've heard, <bitter, bitter Shakespeare nerd>) but I'll just say I love Hamlet, The Tempest and King Lear so very much...

 

[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

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

Yeah, I'll probably read a few of them over the next couple of years. It's weird that there's so much talk about them (especially Romeo and Julliet) yet I know nothing about any of them.

 

[diadia]

Oh gosh how to decide, I guess I'd go with King Lear first, followed by The Merchant of Venice.

 

[Gregz]

Hamlet > MacBeth > Romeo & Juliet > Othello > King Lear, Henry V, Julius Ceasar

 

[ENKC]

The Scottish Play is my favourite by a considerable margin. Have a pat on the back, OP.

 

[yoz13]

Out of the three that I've read(Macbeth, A midsummers nights dream and Romeo and Juliet) Gotta be macbeth probably because of the awesome adaptations I've seen

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

The Merchant of Venice was pretty creepily awesome. I haven't read too many of the others though. I will someday.

 

[AhumbleKnight]

Loves Labours Won.

 

[Elvaril]

My favorite would have to be Julius Caesar, mainly because Marc Antony is the character that I want to play most in one of his plays. I couldn't even begin to decide which of his plays that I have seen performed is my favorite. I just saw excellent versions of both Coriolanus and Twelfth Night in the past few weeks at the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern, but I think my favorite that I have seen may have to be Henry VI Part III in which the Tavern had 27 actors onstage swordfighting at the same time. It was pretty damn epic.

 

[CloudKiller]

Hamlet, specifically Francis Kitt's production with an all Elcor cast.

 

[Elvaril]

Love's Labour's Won is your favorite play? That's interesting considering that it is one of Shakespeare's lost plays and nobody living knows what it contained.

 

[AhumbleKnight]

Love's Labour's Won is your favorite play? That's interesting considering that it is one of Shakespeare's lost plays and nobody living knows what it contained.

Yes, I quite liked it. The bit at the end didn't make any sense to me though.

 

[Nibblitman]

I would say Pericles, I went to that at the Globe and got dragged into part of the show.

On that note if anyone ever goes to the Globe get the standing room tickets and get there early enough so you are right up at the stage(I was leaning on it) it's a cheaper "seat" and a better time.

 

[C.G.B.S]

I haven't read a lot of Shakespeare but I've always been quite fond of Richard III

 

[Hyper-space]

That one where they all die.

Other than that, i would have to say Macbeth.

 

[GrimTuesday]

That one where they all die.

I'm sorry, you'll have to narrow it down a bit more

 

[Vampire cat]

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

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.

Never read or seen anything by Shakespeare, and I'm guessing my poor education is behind it all... It's also not something that "calls" to me in any way, the authors and play-writes of old may have been pioneers and geniuses, but whenever I come in contact with something by them it always seems unbearably boring =3.

 

[GrimTuesday]

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

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.

Never read or seen anything by Shakespeare, and I'm guessing my poor education is behind it all... It's also not something that "calls" to me in any way, the authors and play-writes of old may have been pioneers and geniuses, but whenever I come in contact with something by them it always seems unbearably boring =3.

Read Macbeth, it's all about a mans fall into madness from the guilt he feels for slaying his king. It's short so it's not a very long read, but it is damn good.