What is your favorite play by Shakespeare?

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Re: What is your favorite play by Shakespeare?

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Taming of the Shrew
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mine was the uncharted island

i loved it because it had all i could ask for funny moments, sorrowful ones, absurd character and reminds me of our past generations.
you know, reading lamb-tales from shakespeare was one you could never get bored reading. it is just so interesting i never got bored reading it
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As a moody teen/YA, I related to Hamlet as he was moody and felt everyone in his life betrayed him. Henry IV Part 1 is a very close runner-up because of his "I know you all..." speech. I related to his idea of breaking out of the low expectations his public life created in those around him...the idea that everyone wrote him off, but he knew he was bound for greatness.
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Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth
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As an English teacher, there was an expectation that I would love Shakespeare but in fact, quite the opposite was true. I found no enjoyment in the plays whatsoever with the exception of King Lear which I fell in love with from the start.
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Merchant of Venice. This is probably because I did it as a class set book in my school. It still remains my favorite.
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Taming of the Shrew was the only one I ever finished willingly. The rest were forced fown my throat in English literature classes... so I guess Taming of the Shrew is it for me.
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I absolutely love As You Like It, but I am also partial to A Midsummer Night's Dream, because it was some of my first real exposure to Shakespeare.
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Wow, this is a tough question. I can't limit it to just one. I love Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet. . . okay, how many do I get to list? One of my least favorites is Romeo and Juliet. The plot twists make me crazy. My favorite role that I never played would be Cordelia in Lear. My favorite Shakespeare inspired film is A Midwinter's Tale with its hilarious take on Hamlet. Oh, I could go on, but I don't want to bore anyone. Alas.
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gfowle wrote: 08 Sep 2018, 21:59 I absolutely love As You Like It, but I am also partial to A Midsummer Night's Dream, because it was some of my first real exposure to Shakespeare.
I saw a wonderful production of As You Like It at Stratford (Ontario, not England) about 20 years ago. I was leery of the concept as I sat in my seat and read the program waiting for the show to start. The director decided to set it on the Isle de France off the coast of Quebec in the 17th century. Sounded odd, but it was BRILLIANT!
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Definitely Richard III, I love what a raging human garbage fire Richard III is. Absolutely zero redeeming qualities, salty trash through and through. Tasty. :evil: :twisted2: :twisted2: A Midsummer Night's Dream is a fave, as well as Merchant of Venice. Also, The Tempest, primarily because I love the movie version that has the bizarro dancing sailors. There's a fictional book about Shakespeare that I really liked and wanted to mention, but I can't recall the title or author, and apparently there are so many fictional books about Shakespeare that I couldn't narrow it down enough to figure it out.
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It is undoubtedly ''The comedy of nonsense" ,It is a comedy but farcical,here Shakespeare showed his sense of humor in grand style.
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Macbeth, hamlet and my most priceless Merchant of Venice.
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Its hard to choose between hemlet and othello and i think i would choose hamlet. Othello's turn will be yesterday 😀
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I love Hamlet! I was that weird English teacher who got super excited about teaching it. :lol:
I also love to see productions of the play. I have seen it staged many times, and I always want more.
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