I know they're plays and not books, but fav Shakespeare work

[Bena]

My fav Shakespeare comedy is Twelfth Night (b/c it's hilariouslol ), while my favorite tradegy is Hamlet (b/c so many cool guys have played the main character-Mel Gibson and Kenneth Brannagh, to name a few:) .) What do you guys think? roflmao

[Tar-Ancalimë]

i love hamlet and macbeth. hamlet was the first 'great book' i studied, and i still remember the effect it had on me. i dont like his comedies half so much as his tragedies, but if i had to pick a favorite it would be measure for measure. that play incorporates my favorite kind of story line, and his comic relief is brilliant

[Lintefaniel]

First one I read was Taming of the Shrew and I was completely confused! But I was 12! So I have been transformed and have a million favorites of his. Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet are some of my favs of his. His comedies are splendid and make me smile. ;)

[Nessa the Dancer]

I love Twelfth Night and Macbeth, though I do like Shakespeare as a whole, the only play I hate with a passion is Midsummer Night's Dream.

[Arwen Elf]

Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet. . .so far. . . "A sail, a sail. . . . "

[Daisy Gamgee]

I enjoyed Macbeth and Othello. I'm pretty grateful to Macbeth as my literature assignment on that helped me get a A* at gcse - its was such an easy play to write about its symbolism as theres heaps of it.
Twelth Night, I think was my favourite comedy. But I generally don't like his comedies.

[Catz]

"the Scottish play" is def my fave.........it was the first Shakespeare work i really read and it captured my imagination......that a piece written so long ago can still be read with pleasure today, and still have relevance is an amazing thig to me.......i also like "The Merchant of Venice" and "Othello"
:catz:

[Lintefaniel]

Thanks Catz, I couldn't remember the other more appropriate term used to defer to the haunted "Scottish" play. Won't be walkin under any ladders or allowing black felines to walk in front of me either...;) Ah the spot...out Damn Spot!!! lol

[Gatsby]

midsummer's nights dream cuz we did that as play... i was quince and the taming of the shrew
out
gatsby

[Ruin's Fate]

Hamlet, all time fav.

[Sindarin]

"Hamlet" and "Macbeth" are my all-time favorite Shakespeare works. For one reason or another, I enjoy tragedies. mecry

[Ilmarë]

Originally posted by Lintefaniel
I couldn't remember the other more appropriate term used to defer to the haunted "Scottish" play.

It's ok Lin! It's only when you're standing in the wings or backstage in a theatre that you don't ever mention the name Macbeth... you're perfectly safe in here!!
Remind me to tell you about the strange things that happened backstage at a performance i was crewing at next time we chat!!! Very spooky!!!

[Lintefaniel]

I would love to hear them! I don't recall too many spooky things occuring in our wings when I was performing. But we sure had alot of *ahem* kooky things happen. ;)

[Melain]

My favorite comedy is probably Much Ado About Nothing, my favorite tragedy is most certainly Mcbeth. A Midsummernights Dream is alright I preformed in that one and like Gatsby I was Peter Quince.

[Rumil]

Originally posted by Nessa the Dancer
I love Twelfth Night and Macbeth, though I do like Shakespeare as a whole, the only play I hate with a passion is Midsummer Night's Dream. :o

Dream is my favourite of the comedies (tho i admit it is very susceptible to naff staging) - i think it is fab. Macbeth is awesome "a tale, told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing". Truly classy verse is sonnet no. 43 "when most i wink.." shakespeare showing off and proving that he can do the metaphysical stuff at least as well as Donne.

[Bonos-Girl]

I like macbeth but we dson't get to study it for GCSE cos evreyone voted for romeo and juliet so we could watch the film..mecry

I don't like midsummers night dream.....dunno why i just don't! lol

[Rosolas]

Macbeth without a doubt is my favourite play by the Bard. It was the only play of his I could understand! I studied Macbeth for my O-level way back in 1978! Now I am giving my age away!!



"Father! He has killed me"! (Fleance)

[Nessa the Dancer]

Originally posted by Daisy Gamgee
I enjoyed Macbeth and Othello. I'm pretty grateful to Macbeth as my literature assignment on that helped me get a A* at gcse - its was such an easy play to write about its symbolism as theres heaps of it.


I had Macbeth for GCSE as well...must be a lucky play 'cos I got a 'B' out of it.
I had to write about Lady Macbeth. It was the choice of that or *tries to remember...it was some time ago* someting to do with scenes I think...but I'm better with characters than concepts and scenes...Anyway, the Lady did me proud, and she was so easy to write about.

[Tinwë]

I LOVE Shakespeare!!! He's my favourite!

My favourite plays are Romeo and Julet, and/or Hamlet. I never can decide between the two ;) I also like a Midsummer Night's Dream.

[Rumil]

Originally posted by Tinwë
I LOVE Shakespeare!!! He's my favourite!

My favourite plays are Romeo and Julet, and/or Hamlet. I never can decide between the two ;) I also like a Midsummer Night's Dream.

At last another Dream fan... i was beginning to feel kinda isolated!! lol

[Tinwë]

Originally posted by Rumil
At last another Dream fan... i was beginning to feel kinda isolated!! lol


lol Probably my 3rd favourite play :) I love it! It's been a while since I've read it though :(

I actually started a Shakespeare thread in here once...a long time ago, back in the day ;)

[P.K. Brandybuck]

MacBeth and much ado about nothing.

"out out d*mned spot!!!!!!!" and "Sigh no more, Ladies sigh no more -- Men were deceivers ever........"

[Tinwë]

Sigh no more ladies sigh no more
Men were decievers ever
One foot in sea and one on shore
to one thing constant never...
Sigh not so but let them go and be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe,
To Hey Nonny! Nonny!

Sorry if that has any mistakes...I just typed it from memory...I haven't even looked at it in a year ;)

[Little Devil]

I really like MIdsummer's Night Dream, and Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories ever written, I haven't read Twelfth Night, but I know the basic story and am doing a scene from it for a Speech and Drama Festival. ;)

[Nessa the Dancer]

What scene is that Little Devil?
I studided Twelfth Night for my English Lit. college course, that's when I got to like it.
I kinda became Feste the 'Fool' for the duration of that time, because I was the only one who would sing his songs, I had great fun comming up with tunes for all of them lol

[P.K. Brandybuck]

Originally posted by Tinwë
Sigh no more ladies sigh no more
Men were decievers ever
One foot in sea and one on shore
to one thing constant never...
Sigh not so but let them go and be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe,
To Hey Nonny! Nonny!

Sorry if that has any mistakes...I just typed it from memory...I haven't even looked at it in a year ;)

Naw! it was perfect! :thumbs:

[Erana]

Mid Summers nights dreams I love Titiana and Oberon and the prince and princess and how Titiana falls in love with a donkey

[Catz]

awwwww poor old Bottom........the butt (geddit?? ;) ) of everyones jokes......i always rather liked puck......but then i always have been keen on mischief ;)
love Othello too......just goes to show that some things never change
:catz:

[Evenstar]

My favourite is Macbeth... I just like all the despair and the 'oh no lets be really negative' stuff, a bit like the Silmarillion I guess, because that gets really depressing when all the elves and edain keep dying.

Once I saw a musical of a midsummer night's dream, it was called the Dreaming and it was very moving. Has anyone else seen it?

[Arwen Elf]

I change my vote for Hamlet . I recently read it and you could dissect it for years. . .then I saw the Franco Zaffirelli film avec Mel Gibson. . . and it was interesting. The play was really thought-provoking. I never really had my feelings change so much about a character than a did about Hamlet. . . "To be or not to be..."

[Little Devil]

Originally posted by Nessa the Dancer
What scene is that Little Devil?


I'm playing Viola, in the scene when she realises Olivia loves her, after Malvolio gave her the ring. It's quite a good scene, I like it. ;)

[Lady Luthien]

My favorite work of Shakespeare's (though I haven't read them all, only Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and a Midsummer Night's Dream) would have to be MSN's D. I love Shakesperian humor, and by far, that book I found to be the funniest and the most entertaining.

[Túrinqualië]

I love a Midsummer nights dream & the merchant of venice.

'if you prick us do we not bleed' such a genius speech!

[Catz]

MacBeth.................i always loved the concept that if MacBeth hadnt been told what he was by the witches, would he in fact have murdered his way to the throne?
its a mind bender ;).........i like that in a piece lol
:catz:

[Evenstar]

my favourite is Macbeth as well - I don't like comedies! at least not Shakespearean style. I like Romeo and Juliet. :grin:

and Catz - I think that the witches did not make Macbeth act, they just sowed the seed of doubt. The person who influenced him to kill Duncan most was his wife. But that's only my opinion! :grin:

[Catz]

yeah but would he have done that if they hadnt planted in his mind the idea that it was fated to be?
:catz:

[Tar-Vanimelde]

I think it was the witches- but I'm not sure why I feel that way ;)

I adore Hamlet- such a psychologically deep play. It is so rich, every word is laden with meaning and conveys something about human nature :grin:

#Vani

[Gwaihir]

I like the Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, and Julius Caesar... and I'm currently reading the Taming of the Shrew. I love Shakespeare... he certainly deserves to be called the greatest writer of all time!

[Tar-Vanimelde]

Ah, the Taming of the Shrew! That is my favorite comedy by the master of the english language ;)

#Vani

[Shieldmaiden]

I really like Macbeth...right now, I'm reading King Lear, and I can't say much yet since I'm barely on the second act...

For my English class, we had this project where we got in groups and pretended that we were working on making Macbeth into a movie...it was loads of fun! We got some pretty cool versions [Japanese Macbeth, Mobster Macbeth].

[Evenstar]

Originally posted by Catz
yeah but would he have done that if they hadnt planted in his mind the idea that it was fated to be?
:catz:

youre right... although i think he still would not have done it had it not been for Lady M.

[Shieldmaiden]

mecry Finished King Lear, aw, it was great! Depressing, but great. Anyone else like it and care to discuss it?