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I have read every single Shakespeare play/sonnet etc ( I have the complete works) he is one of my favourites! I have been trained in Shakespeare for drama and I think that he is just phenomenal!
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I don't really like his works but that may be due to how my school presented it
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His compositions can be argued but i feel Macbeth has the most classic fiction theme
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I have yet to read all of his work (although I have a massive book with them all)
However, my favorite play would have to be Hamlet, closely followed by Macbeth
I honestly never cared much for Romeo and Juliet.
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I'm a fan of Shakespeare; more so his tragedies than his comedies. I also enjoyed reading his sonnets. However, I probably wouldn't have become a fan if I didn't have to read it for school - both in high school and college. Being able to discuss the characters and major themes allowed me to appreciate his work more. If I had to pick a favorite play, it would be King Lear.
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I didn't really "get" Shakespeare at first because I likely didn't know how to read him, but now I really enjoy his plays, especially Hamlet. I've found that sometimes the plays make a lot more sense if you read them aloud, since they were meant to be performed rather than read like a book. You can get a much better feel for the language if you try speaking the lines.
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He was, quite simply, a genius. There is no debate necessary.
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Post by sammisinmeiho »

i really enjoyed othello. i read it for my grade 11 english class and my teacher analyzed everything really well. i started to appreciate shakespeare after othello (:
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Hamlet was always my favorite. I love the BBC audio recording of it too.
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Post by samantha13 »

What William Shakespeare did in Romeo and Juliet blows my mind I always love to read it because of the story behind it. I highly recommend reading this play.
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As an English Post Graduate, I really couldn't afford to miss Shakespeare. The journey started in middle school. I began by reading the modern English translations and went on to read Elizabethan original versions of his poems and plays starting Grade 9. It goes without saying that I loved his comedies such as Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night and As You Like It. However, what intrigued me more were his tragedies. Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Julius Ceasar, Antony and Cleopatra, so on and so forth. Read them all. I can still go back and read them for my love of the old English Language, the Elizabethan and Victorian era, and Shakespeare's intelligent work.
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Best playwright ever, but I’m kinda biased since the Shakespeare festival is the reason both my jobs even exist.

While many others have written remarkable plays, what makes Shakespeare stand out to me is the wide range of excellence and the volume he was able to produce on that level.
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I'm a huge fan, although I get why people aren't into reading Shakespeare. To me, he's a master of presenting thoroughly flawed and compelling characters that you really empathize with. I think Shylock, heavy anti-semetic overtones aside, is one of the best villains of all time. When you understand that Romeo and Juliet was based off of other stories whose moral was that marrying for love is a really dumb thing to do and will generally ruin everything, and you see how he complicates that straightforward understanding without changing the essentially tragic nature of the story, it adds a lot more depth.

I think Measure for Measure is one of his more underrated plays, although I'm not a huge fan of its final act.
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Post by EricaWilson »

MacBeth is absolutely amazing. I love all of the hidden meaning hidden within the play, as well as the reversal of gender roles and the theme of power over morality. I’m reading Hamlet right now, but can’t seem to get as into it.
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Post by nadzcabs »

william shakespehere worte alot of wonderful plays romeo and juliet is well known story for the plot lines of the play is still being revived till to this day of age like the remake movie of 2013. but the most captivating play he wrote was hamlet (well in my own opinion) the drama, the turmoil in hamlet's mind upon his father's death and the usepation of his uncle. and the plot twist it had me captivated that i wanted to finish reading it at once so i can read it again.i also watched the movies of hamlet though the movie lacked so plot twist that were in the original play. it is a very wonderful play to read
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