Your top 3 favorite Shakespeare Tragedies?

[jbassic]

I know a lot of you probably don't like Shakespeare but I really do and I was wondering, for those of you who do enjoy some Shakespeare, what your favorite tragedies would be?

Mine would be, in no particular order:

Othello, Hamlet and Macbeth.

 

[Marter]

King Lear, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.

Coincidentally, they're also the three I had to read in high school.

I've also read Hamlet and one or two others whose names I can't remember, though.

 

[WoW Killer]

Definitely Othello. Best villain ever in that one. Probably Macbeth above Hamlet. Macbeth is like Shakespeare's Hollywood action flick, but there's a lot of depth and political statements through it too. Hamlet is a bit moody, but I've not read/seen it since I was a kid. Unless you count the Disney version. That's about the only way you can improve Shakespeare; add cats.

Incidentally, I called all my Redguard characters in the TES games Othello, and in NWN my Druid had a pet called Iago.

*holy crap* I so need to get in on TES online early, so I can reserve the name Othello.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I'm going to go along with everyone else and say Hamlet and then Macbeth...but I have to diverge from the group and list one of my favorites as Titus Andronicus.

 

[DJjaffacake]

Not to be obvious, but Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, in that order.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

I think it should be obvious what my favourite is.

The other two are Hamlet and Coriolanus. Runners up are Macbeth and Julius Caesar.

 

[Esotera]

Hamlet & Macbeth...I don't think I've actually read more than two of Shakespeare's tragedies. The Twelfth Night would probably be my third favourite play though.

 

[Zantos]

Oh I don't know. Errr... the teenage crush that lasts four days and results in 9 deaths.

Ok maybe that's just because I had to study it, I wonder how much good stuff I missed out on thanks to English Lit ruining it for me.

I've always been a big fan of Macbeth. I got to be Banquo in an amateur performance once, was a bit of a change up from the usual panto fundraisers. Twas much fun.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Macbeth is my all time favorite tragedy of Shakespeare and then after that is Hamlet and then Othello.

I really tried to like Julius Caesar, but I found it to be so boring, but I can quote a lot of lines from there, which is weird.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Macbeth. If for nothing else, the ending, when he's nearly lost everything and they're coming to storm the castle. Macbeth is all "C'mon you fuckers! None of y'all can kill me!" and it becomes like the ending of the movie Scarface.

And then there is that one guy whos like "I was born of a C-Section" and Macbeth is all like "Well... Fuck... DOESN'T MATTER ANYWAY!!!!"

Romeo and Juliet I have fondness for as well, just because I love Mercutio. That's the real tragedy of the play I think, homeboy spends all this time trying to cheer emo boy up and gets killed accidentally by Tybalt. The play should be called "Romeo is a dick."

 

[LongAndShort]

Titus Andronicus easily tops my list (that shit is crazy). Loved the version with Anthony Hopkins (he does the descent into madness and cannibalism so well). If you haven't read or watched it yet, fuckin read or watch it.

After that, because I spent so much time studying it probably, I'd go Hamlet.

Then I'd like to say Merchant of Venice, but I'm not sure if you could classify that as tragedy (I've heard it called such but not universally), so I'm gonna follow the trend and say Macbeth instead ('cause I'm a sheep like that).