Shakespearean Summer '08

as you like it...I really wanted to read this!

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Originally Posted by LadyWentworth

1. So will we be reading all of the plays that have a vote? Will they be read in the order of the number of votes that they received?

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No, every three months we will have a new poll to determine which play to read and the play that gets the most votes will be read during the next three months.

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2. Once we have covered those plays, will there perhaps be another poll to decide on the plays that we have left to discuss?

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See above. :)

Yay!:banana: I see you are kindly providing me with lots of reading to do this summer thanks scher, this is to quote a friend of mine "very solid of you".

I want to read one of the histories ideally but Ill go with anything ! :D:nod:

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Originally Posted by Amundsen

I voted Merchant of Venice. I am looking forward to read all of his plays.
My grandfather have all of them except one: As You Like It

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you should find a copy to complete the collection :)

As You Like It is, in opinion, his best comedy....unless you count Winter's Tale as a comedy....but I don't

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

No, every three months we will have a new poll to determine which play to read and the play that gets the most votes will be read during the next three months.

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Yes, that is right! I forgot! I am going out of town in a couple of weeks. My mind hasn't been thinking clearly lately. So I am expecting (hoping) my brain to function properly again after that break. :) I want to remember things again so I don't keep asking questions based on my forgetfulness. :p

Thanks, by the way. :D

Well. I'm getting convinced on Winter's Tale. It's one of the plays I've never read. But I'll still hold out a little longer.

I have got all my Norton Shakespear Anthologies series finally so can't wait! :D

I've the Oxford complete so...been a while since i read shakespeare. So Maybe Richard III?

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But it's not Winter.

the play isn't set in Winter.

i'm confused between Macbeth and Othello but my vote goes for Macbeth. Going with first that came on my mind.

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Originally Posted by JBI

the play isn't set in Winter.

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It has winter in the title.

Its a pastoral Play mainly based in Sicily snd Bohemia. I think the title has to do with associating the context of the play to winter. When we think of winter, we think of times of darkness, cold, seasonal depression etc. Well the play itself is a time of darkness for the king of sicily who accuses his wife of an affair and carrying an illigitamate child, the child (Perdita) is taken away, Leontes and Harmiones only son dies, and them Harmione dies, and suddenly Leontes has lost everything he cared for and indures a "winter" in his life.

I voted. Go Winter's Tale!!