What is your favorite work of Shakespeare?

[Blitzwarp]

King Lear, definitely. It's such an acute domestic drama set against a wider political background, and every character has a motivation which is palpable.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Play?
Damn, I was gonna say "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day"

But... I'm gonna go with Romeo and Juliet.
The play was ok.
The anime is freaking awesome.

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MacBeth is a great basis for newly interpreted plays or movies. But for reading it is Much a do about nothing. Its just his funniest comedy.

 

[Ultress]

I really enjoyed Othello,mind you I actually didn't read it and only watched the Laurence Fishburne version. Iago was possibly one of the best villains I've ever seen. Of the ones I've read Julius Caesar was pretty good.

 

[badgersprite]

I've always had a soft spot for the Wars Of The Roses. I know I should separate them, but I always think of Henry VI and Richard III together, because that's how I first saw it performed. Coriolanus also holds a special place in my heart.

 

[Hyper-space]

That one where they all die.

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

You know, the one where some guy/chick goes completely bonkers and kills someone.

 

[octafish]

Too hard to choose, Henry IV has Falstaff, and Falstaff is, well, he's Falstaff, and you gotta love Falstaff. However the greatest character Shakespeare ever wrote is Richard III. Richard is such a delicious bastard, murdering, lying, seducing, smiling. So that is Henry IV, Henry VI and Richard III, and I still like Lear, the old fool.

EDIT: Oh and without Hamlet we wouldn't have Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Of what I remember (which isn't a lot), probably The Merchant of Venice.

 

[Samwise137]

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.

"Good old JK!" -The Doctor

OT: My favorite Shakespeare was Julius Caesar, no question.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I love The Winter's Tale. The king's jealousy and illusions that his wife is cheating on him with his best friend. Just the way that the story unfolds is great.

I also love MacBeth and Hamlet, those two plays are some that I can watch again and again.

 

[Marter]

I've only read 3, (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear), and I believe my favorite is Romeo and Juliet. It kept me the most entertained.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I'm a big fan of Titus Andronicus, but ask me again in two years. (It's a big, big part of my PhD thesis, and I may be completely and heartily sick of it by then.)

 

[RA92]

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

Tough.

Personally, I love Much Ado About Nothing simply because of Kenneth Branagh and his portrayal of Benedick. Besides that, there is the rather subtly portrayed insidious nature of the stereotypical young lover, Claudio (his inquiry into whether Hero had inherited her father's fortune before proposing to her and easy distrust of his love interest). And who doesn't love Don Jon? A man whose title was The Bastard? But then again there's Macbeth, whose portrayal of man's fallibility was possibly rivaled only by Dr Faustus. Can't miss Julius Caesar either. Loved it how basically every single character's progression could be attributed to political motivations. Cassius? Political revenge. Check. Brutus? Backstabbing his closest friend to gain highest power. Check. Antony? Sure he cried for a while, but then you should have seen him running to grab power by screwing with the Triumvirate. So, check. Octavius? Oh, we saw your real political face when you got rid of Pompey while Antony was busy humping sweet Cleopetra.

Never enjoyed Hamlet though. Angst. Emo. Teenager. Whining.

Need I say more?