Personally I like Julius Caesar a whole lot.
Personally I like Julius Caesar a whole lot.
My favourite play and character is Richard III. I think he is the most genuine, satanic, adorable, cunning villian that has ever been concieved! I mean the guy kills his family and starts a civil war simply because he can't flirt and is bored of peace! How much more evil can you get?!
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To be honest, the only one of his plays I've read was "A Midsummer Night's Dream" although I have seen the movie "Romio and Juliet", I'm not going to read it on my own accord, as I know I will be doing it in school in future years.
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A Midsummer's Night Dream is my fave, but I also love Merchant of Venice.
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
I love Twelfth Night. It was taught to me by an excellent teacher and I believe that it is now one of the most well-written pieces I have ever read.
Twelfth Night was really good too. I guess I don't really have a favorite, I like so many of them!
It's a toss-up between The Tempest and Hamlet.
It's a toss-up for me and it is between
Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, Othello, and MacBeth
It's hard to single one play out, they are all great, but the one that touched me more than anything else is Macbeth.
Definitely Othello. Iago makes it all worthwhile.
-Although King Lear had it's moments. For anyone who enjoyed King Lear, also check out :
A thousand Acres by Jane Smiley.
. . .and I think to myself, what a wonderful world. . .
Call me weird, but Henry V. His speech just before the battle of Agincourt, well, I don't really know what to say. Just, wow.
Definently Titus Andronicus. Sure, it's bloody, and gruesome, and down right disgusting at times, but it shows so much more depth of feeling in the characters than most of the plays in my opinion, especially when set in a royal-take-over setting. It's a twinge of Ceasar, a pinch of Macbeth, and the treachery of Hamlet all rolled into one.
Otherwise Midsummer Night's Dream runs a close second only because it's so gosh darn funny!
Ooh, that's a couple of good points there... Titus IS very good. Ever seen the movie, with Anthony Hopkins? Excellent interpretation, in my opinion. And who doesn't love Bottom? One of my best friends played him recently, it's all I can do to keep myself from laughing openly whenever someone even mentions Midsummer. -)
Yeah, I'm giving the 'wink' and the 'gun' like Ponch from Chips, big whoop wanna fight about it?
Yeah, I have seen the movie, and Julie Taymor did an excellent job a bringing him to life, using the symbolism literally was great. Anthony Hopkins is the only actor who could ever play Titus.
I personally like Shakespeare's tragedies the best...And my favourite one is without a doubt Hamlet, followed shortly by Othello...
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