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 Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:30 pm
How can there be an entire reading-based guild without a single thread dedicated to the Bard? I mean, sure, he wrote plays, not books, but he was just so amazingly brilliant...!
My favourite is currently Hamlet, it's hilarious. And yet a tragedy... Odd...
But really, Hamlet's madness, and what he says to Polonuis and Claudius? Genius.
I can't really be the only person in the guild who adores Shakespeare, right?
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:35 am
Yes, I suppose it is kind of silly that we don't have a Shakespear thread yet. My personal favorite is Othello. So good in so many ways. I love Iago, the villain, because his motives seem impossible to discover. One of Shakespear's greatest antagonists, in my opinion. And, of course, I love the progression of Othello's jealousy. 3nodding
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:12 pm
Shakespeare smile
I think my favorite villain is Richard III. He's usually seen as a sort of a "practice Iago," but I like him in his own right, especially in that first speech where he quit pragmatically decides that, since he can't be the great hero everyone will admire, he'll be the great villain (and thus everyone will remember him).
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:30 pm
I love William Shakespeare! heart My personal Favorite is Midsummers Night Dream. It is one of the four stories where someone doesn't die. It is a very romantic, but confusing. I beleive it'[s humorus too. If you love Shakespeare, try reading this.
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:19 pm
Pyrimus and Thisby...
Did I spell that correctly? I can't recall. It was so long ago that I last read it, but I loved it.
I also loved Romeo & Juliet, as well as A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Some assigned reading isn't SO bad...
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:25 pm
That's a miniplay inside A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Ooh! I also like Twelfth Night and A Comedy of Errors.
(actually, sadly, I've only read a few, those among them, as well as Romeo and Juliet. I'm working on it!!! Anyway, you don't have to be a Shakespeare expert to be a Shakespeare fangirl! whee )
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:01 am
I personally enjoyed Hamlet and Othello...Hamlet's sense of humor was quite surprising. The movies changed a bit of the stories, but were overall good as a visual aid..
I also like some of his sonnets.
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Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:55 pm
Bill the Shake's 116th sonnet is my favorite "Love is not love, that alters when it alteration finds. Oh no, it is an ever fixed mark, that looks on tempests, and is never shaken. " Ha, I actually memorized that part! Jane Austen used that in Sense and Sensibility. She had good taste.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:17 am
I really liked A Midsummer's Night Dream.. Favorite villian is most deffinitely Tybalt from Romeo and Juliet.
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 2:39 pm
Writes like yoda speaks, he does neutral . I would probobly like it more if I didn't have to read Romeo & Juliet talk2hand (I HATE romance! gonk )
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:25 pm
I think many Shakespearian plays are great, especially the more famous ones such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and so on -
However, I love the comedies. Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming Of The Shrew and The Tempest are my favorites. I find that sometimes even the most dense of people can find something to snicker at in a Shakespearian comedy - even if most of the jokes go over their heads, as a lot of any Shakespeare has the potential to do.
I full heartedly recommend Kenneth Branagh's film Much Ado About Nothing for those who enjoy the actual plays and movies as much as the literature themselves. Oddly, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves and Robert Sean Leonard [Dead Poet's Society / House], Michael Keaten and Emma Thompson also star in the film. Branagah is primarily a Shakespearian actor, and it shows through his talent. <3
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 4:39 pm
We SO should have a Hamlet thread, there are so many unresolved issues in that play, I love the mystery behind the unanswered questions, YAY
Sorry I get Shakespeare gitters! 4laugh
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 4:39 pm
I agree that Hamlet is wonderful, but I also liked Othello...
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:39 pm
Kisaki Kissu We SO should have a Hamlet thread, there are so many unresolved issues in that play, I love the mystery behind the unanswered questions, YAY Sorry I get Shakespeare gitters! 4laugh Brilliant! A lot of Shakespeare's works merit that though. Hamlet is my favorite of his works. I wish I could go and ask him about some of the unresolved bits though, but then if it was possible I think it would take some of the fun out of it.
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:29 pm
He talks to fancy well like how he wrote his plays...But I'll admit I like his work
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