What's your favourite Shakespeare play? For me, it's Macbeth.
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What's your favourite Shakespeare play? For me, it's Macbeth.
What's your favourite Shakespeare play? For me, it's Macbeth.
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I like Julius Caesar.
Antonys monologs after the senators leave is great.
Macbeth is good too
Measure for Measure. Shakespeare presented himself in the character of Vincentio, the Duke. We get the closest thing to Shakespeare's actual philosophy of life.
tragedies > histories > comedies
histories > tragedies > comedies FYI
Pretty much all of them are dumb and for high-school tier.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hamlet is the only correct answer.
i like david tennant
The Polanski film kicks all kinds of ass. You can tell he was still in a very dark place from the Sharon Tate affair.
Shit adaptation. Turns Shakespeare into a Hollywood movie.
I recently read King Lear. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Short play.
Richard III
Macbeth is one of the worst plays he wrote
I like the tempest and Anthony and Cleopatra
King Lear and Hamlet are his best works by atleast a thousand versts, every other candidate is brought forth by feeble and coping hands. its not like his other plays aren't great, they are, but theres a reason those two are regarded so highly among fans of the crowning playwright. runners up though are A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Much ado, and I did really enjoy Julius Caesar though the last couple acts were a bit of a drop in quality.
>King Lear and Hamlet are his best works by atleast a thousand versts
This.
>runners up though are A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Much ado
Lol no. Macbeth, yes, as well as Othello (forming his four most famous tragedies), but A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing are too light hearted and immature to compare to his best, even if they're perfect comedies in themselves.
its not just the comedic element of them though, its the poignancy maaaaaan. plus theres so many great quotable lines. I dunno, I absolutely love them, not everything should be serious. Othello is good its just in my opinion no where near as hard hitting as the other 3 of the big 4 tragedies he did (what we've already listed, though you surely found that obvious). How do you feel about the histories? obviously henry iv part 1 and 2 are great, atleast to me. I think falstaff is a bit overmentioned but he definitely still makes me laugh and I do see the appeal, many college professors are just humorless usually so I can see why they find him so worth conspicuously exalting.
overmentioned by professors* just to clear up possibly having that confused with Shakespeare's liberal employment of him as a mover of scenes
I find the poignancy of Shakespeare's later comedies much greater, because not only do they playfully merge with more serious themes and topics, with their sublimely bittersweet beauty, it has the mature craftmanship of Shakespeare behind it also. You can literally see, just like when you look at Hamlet, how the stories are composed so much more ingeniously, and the treatment of every character so much more convincing. As for Othello I have to completely disagree with you. It is quite possibly his most hard hitting, pity inducing and horrific play. It feels simpler than the other three most famous tragedies, but there's no attenuation of force or energy, and no less genius in the construction and portrayal of the characters. There is more presented in action than in commentary, and that is probably the reason it is considered simpler or lesser than the others, but if one really looks at it carefully it is no less great. Among the histories, I find the 'earlier Henriad', Henry VI parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III, to be underrated, despite them being among Shakespeare's earliest plays. But I don't think anyone would deny that he peaked in that 'genre' with what we more commonly know as the Henriad. The amazing thing about Falstaff as a character is how clearly delineated he is with his prose, like the perfection of the prose-comedy sections throughout Shakespeare.
I'll read Othello again, like it is a great work, I just haven't found it to surpass the others for me but i've only read it once to be fair. look it's shakespeare so i'm going to hardly ever waste my time reading him. Richard III is great, I must confess I haven't read the earlier henriad yet. Look as far as his later comedies, I like the tempest but that may have been the only one I've read yet of those. you do seem more well read on him than I am, but anyway the tempest is good but I dunno I wasn't really big on it. i'll read that again at some point.
I like Macbeth, Much Ado about Nothing and Taming of the Shrew although I hate the ending
isn't much ado absolutely hilarious? I still gotta read taming of the shrew i listened to an audiobook of it one time but i gotta ya know, actually sit down with it one of these upcoming off days