What are your favorite Shakespeare plays?

[Lavender Brown]

Mine are "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Twelfth Night."

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[lovedems]

1. I am very partial to "Taming of the Shrew" n/t

[benburch]

2. Julius Cesear nt

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

38. Same here

[JimmyJazz]

3. "Taming of the Shrew" - funny, bawdy as heck - love it!

[Midnight Rambler]

4. I always liked Macbeth for some reason

[CBGLuthier]

5. Comedy of Errors

Particulary as staged by the Flying Karamozov Brothers.

[terrya]

6. "As You Like It" eom

[coeur_de_lion]

7. "Hamlet," "Henry V," "Much Ado About Nothing" eom

[Crankie Avalon]

8. For subject matter...

...Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra (Roman history buff).

For everything else, King Lear.

[Dissent Is Patriotic]

9. Othello and Merchant of Venice. eom

[Midlodemocrat]

10. Twelfth Night and Hamlet

[Chomskyite]

11. Coriolanus

It's all about the problems of democracy. Very important play and it should be taught more.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

12. As You Like It

(I taught that one for years), Hamlet and my absolute favorite: Richard III.

You CANNOT beat the dialogue in Richard III.

"FIEND! Thy NAME is homicide!"

I always think of * as a dumb version of Richie III.

[Shoeempress]

13. A midsummer night's dream. Trite, but I love it.

[Mojambo]

14. I like that one

where the guy is living with the two girls and has to pretend he's gay so the landlord...

Wait a minute. I'm thinking of something else, nevermind.

[Lavender Brown]

16. That's "The Merry Wives of Windsor"

:)

[Patiod]

15. Tempest

For the language.

Shrew, because my S.O. was Petruchio in the Phila Shakespeare production (and a damned good Petruchio at that, although it made him get bossy at home)

[lgardengate]

17. Taming of the shrew.

[motely36]

18. MacBeth

I just loved it

and Scotland, PA the movie that came out a few years ago that is based on MacBeth

[Richardo]

27. I second Macbeth...

:thumbsup:

[Goathead]

19. The Tempest

It was his last play. Shakespeare supposedly got the inspiration for "The Tempest" from a report of a shipwreck off Bermuda. So you could stretch it and say that it was the only Shakespeare play set in the "New World". I like the connection between Shakespeare > North America > Elizabeth I. Only four of his plays were performed for Elizabeth I 'The Merry Wives of Windsor','Loves Labour's Lost' and two other I can't remember. I would like to read those.

[Rowdyboy]

20. Taming of the Shrew

Wildly funny!

[Emboldened Chimp]

21. Hamlet, Henry IV, pt 1, and Julius Caesar

[northzax]

22. Look, everyone knows that Shakespeare didn't write anything

it was Francis Bacon and the Illuminati. sheesh.

[Zero Gravitas]

23. Hamlet II - Where Is Everybody?

[Lavender Brown]

24. lol

[Mizmoon]

25. The Bard sucks ass

Yeah, I said it. :evilgrin:

[tigereye]

30. no no no no no

:) no. The language is soooo wonderful. It just rolls off the tongue. I was reading some to my kid and I was struck again by how beautiful it is. Disclaimer... I have an English Lit BA.

[Mizmoon]

31. He can't even spell

:silly: HOw can you defend a writer who uses made-up words like "methinks"?

[tigereye]

32. heh heh

those wiggy Brits.

[bif]

26. "My Dinner with Andre"

I'm not a huge fan of the Bard.

[noonwitch]

28. Twelfth Night, MacBeth, and Hamlet

Twelfth Night is funny. I like the crazy characters, from Orsino to Sir Toby Belch. It's the first Shakespeare play that I ever saw performed live.

MacBeth is a great story and a great moral lesson. It should be taught in high school, instead of "Romeo and Juliet", which I don't particularly like.

I like the diaglogue in Hamlet. The poor, doomed prince is a prolific speaker.

[Lavender Brown]

29. We had Macbeth in High School - no Romeo for us

I wonder what makes them decide which goes into the curriculum.

[ceile]

33. McBeth and Henry V

[short bus president]

34. I still say you can't beat

"Romeo and Juliet" for just plain bust-yer-tear-glands-open tragedy. Otherwise, I'm a fan of "Merchant of Venice" for the laughs, and for the whole "pound of flesh" thing.

[seaj11]

35. I love Much Ado About Nothing...

the movie with Kenneth Branagh was an excellent adaptation of the play. I like Hamlet also.

[MrScorpio]

36. Henry V and Richard III

"My Kingdom for some horsepower!!"

[prairierose]

37. Taming of the Shrew &...

Much Ado in that order.

[CBHagman]

39. To re-read, Love's Labor's Lost and Much Ado about Nothing

I also enjoyed reading As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream

To see on screen or on stage, Henry V, Hamlet, Much Ado about Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

At least currently. :-)

On edit: I saw a FABULOUS production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Kennedy Center last year. It starred a dynamo named Jasper Britton. Very good production.

I've seen the Zeffirelli version of "Shrew" a number of times, and while the atmosphere is great, the physical fights get almost oppressive after a while.

[jackelope72]

40. Where do I begin?

Love's Labours Lost
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry IV, Part I
Twelfth Night
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
The Tempest
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night's Dream

[yewberry]

41. Lear for content, but for sheer absurdity:

A Winter's Tale!

SO dopey!

[thebeaglehaslanded]

42. Hamlet. So complex, so deep, so beautiful.

As is the case with so many of Shakespeare's plays.