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 Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:29 pm
My favorite is The Taming of the Shrew.
We read Romeo and Juliet in Literature this year, so for our field trip, we went to this thing called, "Shakesperience!", where they performed scenes from several of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It was made more enjoyable because a week prior to the performance, a member of their troupe came to our chool to re-enact the scenes in layman terms.
After seeing the scene from Taming of the Shrew, where Katherine and Petruchio first meet, I immediately checked out a copy of the play from our school library.
Y'know, that Shakespeare has quite a sense of humor. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:04 pm
*squee*
A Shakespeare thread...
My favorite Shakespeare play is Titus Andronicus. I'm not sure if it is supposed to be funny... It's horrific for sure, but I find it hysterical.
I also really like Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night.
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:13 pm
Epidemic of Insanity Y'know, that Shakespeare has quite a sense of humor. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:25 pm
Macbeth is my all time favorite, just because it's the only one I haven't wanted to go more in-depth with. I'm satisfied with how the whole thing turns out. Plus, when I read it I was reciting it out loud so I could understand it better, so it became a summer ritual to rant out soloquies over my daily bowl of ramen.
Also, whenever I trip I borrow that "I'll fall on my back when I have more wit" line from Romeo & Juliet. As of yet, nobody has gotten it. cry
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Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:52 pm
my fave is the Tempest, the plot and story is really good.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:59 am
A Winter's Tale has always been one of my favorites, but after seeing a badly-dubbed German rendition of Hamlet on Mysterious Science Theater 3000, I can't help but feel affection for it.
Oh, but then there's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar... That was a good one, too... Romeo and Juliet is a timeless classic, with a theme foolishly repeated through-our history. He was a brilliant writer, with plays that are as ageless as they are ingenius.
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:30 pm
well i like two of his poems..they are called..."When my my love swears she is made of truth" and "My mistresses eyes."
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:07 am
I have recently gotten very into Shakespeare and have resolved to read all of his plays. So far I've read Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, The Comedy of Errors, King Lear, and Much Ado About Nothing. I really enjoyed them all, can't really pick a favorite.
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:47 pm
I took a lit. course that only studied Shakespeare this past semester. We read quite a few of his plays, but not on anything else, unfortunately. Although I have a huge place in my heart for the written word, my favorite unit was when we did not read Henry V, but watched it. After all, the people of the time when it came out wouldn't have been able to read and interpret.
Also, and I apologize if this distracts from the discussion on Shakespeare, but my fondest memory of that class was our discussion on eunichs singing at weddings. A boy in my class stood up and sang in his best soprano singing voice "I hath no weiner", and then promptly sat down. My professor, a very prim and proper lady, was absolutely aghast
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:10 pm
Mistress Madness I took a lit. course that only studied Shakespeare this past semester. We read quite a few of his plays, but not on anything else, unfortunately. Although I have a huge place in my heart for the written word, my favorite unit was when we did not read Henry V, but watched it. After all, the people of the time when it came out wouldn't have been able to read and interpret.
I also prefer to enjoy the Bard when his work is performed. If I can, I'll read the play ahead of time, but I seem to follow the twists of the language better when I hear it (that and the fact that there are hardly any stage directions in the play, and I'm terrible at visualizing where the characters might be moving to/from).
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:46 pm
A while back, I came across a six volume collection of all of Shakespeare's work. Trade size paperbacks, all in gorgeous condition. You'd better believe I snatched those right up!
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:58 am
I actually find Shakespeare's Old English semi easy because I just got used to it.
For school, we saw Taming of the Shrew in sixth grade, but the teachers weren't bright and had us read the "modern speaking" version vs. Old English. Then, we saw the play in Old English, and the only reason that I understood anything was because I was sitting next to my mother, and she had explained how Old English worked. Then, my freshmen year we did a huge segment on Romeo and Juliet. I found it very entertaining because of all the debates we had in class. Lastly, I read Hamlet by myself because we have two volumes filled with Shakespeare plays. I liked it a lot.
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 4:25 pm
I, unfortunately, have not read many of Shakespeare's plays, but those that I have read I thoroughly enjoyed. My favourite so far is A Midsummer Night's Dream (I love the character Puck incase you can't guess that from my username here biggrin )
I personally love the form of english used in the plays. It is so much more elegant than the way we speak today. I actually never had a problem reading it (I can also write that way fairly easily, and I use that type of speech for one of my RP characters).
I also quite like those sonnets that I have read, they are all so beautiful and somewhat mysterious.
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:14 pm
hehe i have only read three but form those three i liked macbeth the most i love the darkness of the play biggrin ...and soon im gonna start hamlet, most everyone i have asked says its definately the best that tyhey have read
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Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:52 pm
I have never actually read one of shakespeares plays.
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