Your favorite Shakespeare play poll.
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Topic: Your favorite Shakespeare play poll.
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: Your favorite Shakespeare play poll.
Date Posted: July 17 2015 at 14:09
| Pick your favorite play that may or may not have been written by Shakespeare. Or add one of your own. |
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Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: July 17 2015 at 16:05
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History: Wars of The Roses Tetralogy Comedy: Twelfth Night Romance: The Tempest Now here's the tricky part, Tragedies: King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus, Romeo and Juliet Welp, I am quite the gallant romantic, so I guess I'll vote Pyramus and Thisbe. -------------  
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 17 2015 at 16:12
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Titus Andronicus for me. I wouldn't eat a pie for months after first seeing it. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 17 2015 at 16:34
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Richard III for me. It takes the term "despicable' to a whole new level. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 17 2015 at 17:05
Midsummer Night's Dream.........heh...I like the light hearted ones. 
'What fools these mortals be...' ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 22 2015 at 04:35
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Taming of the shrew (though I haven't read them all)... But that one had at least a bit of humour in it That's also why I preferred Molière to Racine or Corneille... he had some really fun moments (Fourberies de Scapin is awesome) BTW, no Much Ado 'bout Nothing??
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 22 2015 at 05:56
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I have to go for Twelfth Night as I studied it at school so it's the one I know best. |
Posted By: Green Shield Stamp
Date Posted: July 26 2015 at 03:48
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Macbeth (no capital b) and Hamlet Followed by Othello and The Tempest ------------- Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic.... |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: July 26 2015 at 07:28
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No vote for Hamlet or Othello yet? That’s outrageous! The prince of Denmark gets my vote. ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: July 26 2015 at 07:55
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Out of this list, Macbeth hands down. Such a dark, powerful story! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 26 2015 at 08:32
hah!! There is no such thing as a Shakespeare bagel... even knuckle dragging high culture neanderthals like me understand that. Othello it is ... I used to love that game.  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
refugee wrote:Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date Posted: July 26 2015 at 10:06
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The Scottish Play. I like the gory and supernatural elements. |
Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: July 26 2015 at 10:58
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My favorite is the one that isn't incredibly boring and pretentious. Oh wait... (THIS IS A JOKE BY THE WAY)
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Posted By: twalsh
Date Posted: July 27 2015 at 15:19
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Chose MacBeth here, but just saw a steampunk rendition of A Comedy of Errors last weekend. It was brilliant, naughty and very slapstick. ------------- More heavy prog, please! |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: August 07 2015 at 14:04
| You all do know that it's bad luck to call the Scottish play by its correct name, right? |
Posted By: twalsh
Date Posted: August 07 2015 at 14:55
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------------- More heavy prog, please! |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: August 20 2015 at 06:25
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My favorite has always been the Tempest.....so much can be done with sets and stage direction. It can also be interpreted in ways that play on isolation and darkness.As for those above, Taming....full of the bard at his most bawdy. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: August 20 2015 at 06:58
Absolutely has to be The Tempest. What I cannot stand are stripped-back productions - they just don't work and come over as lumpen and amateurish. I'm also not a fan or "re-interpretations" though Derek Jarman's film of The Tempest gets a free-pass. From the list: Richard the Turd. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: December 24 2015 at 11:43
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I'd go for King Lear by far but of the ones listed I'll go for my personal second favourite, Macbeth. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 08 2016 at 11:20
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Difficult one - depends, for me, on the medium: For the stage, Lear or Hamlet Cinematic adaptations, Titus Andronicus, Richard III or Julius Caesar Opera wise, Macbeth or Otello (both Verdi) - incidentally, Zeferelli's film of Otello is cinematically brilliant; problem is, he cut so much out of the opera  Overall though, I think it would have to be Titus Andronicus; a classic revenge tragedy ------------- 
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 08 2016 at 12:32
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Shakespeare seems to be a thing of the past for many educational systems these days....my kids who are in their early 30's know little about any of the plays other than one or two like Julius Ceaser and Romeo and Juliet..that were required reading in English senior year. I have not seen nor read all 36 plays and only know about half of them. I have only seen or read 6 of the ten above. Some one should redo them all for a cable channel but keep them in the original style and period as of course intended. Now anyone want to get into the old argument/controversy about who Shakespeare was and did he really write all those plays alone..?  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: February 08 2016 at 12:52
No.
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Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: February 08 2016 at 13:42
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I believe that old controversy actually. Shakespeare wrote one or two highly acclaimed stories, but most were just random guys/gals that wanted to get their stories recognized. I won't go into why because I hate arguments. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 08 2016 at 13:51
I'm basically on the same page in that I think there are some good reasons why 'Shakespeare' (the person whom the plays are accredited to) may not have written them all (or even any) ,but arguing with others about it who haven't read the various ideas is not often fruitful. Like politics and religion it often brings out animosity from the hard core on both sides. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: February 08 2016 at 14:25
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I just don't think it matters, as no one is being cheated of royalties in any case. Who cares who wrote the plays, as long as we get to enjoy them? At one point, I really immersed myself in Shakespeare's drama, and (if I could be bothered) I would argue for a single author, as there is too much communality of style across the various plays for multiple authors to be involved. Some of the minor ones, perhaps, but then again it may just be that we have early and unpolished versions of those. But it doesn't seem worth the effort to make a big deal about it.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 08 2016 at 15:56
I agree with you in that they are still great pieces of literature no matter who wrote them. But it is a big deal to scholars, historians, writers, etc....who specialize in various eras and writing in general. For me some mysteries and enigmas in general are simply fun to discuss and speculate about. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: February 08 2016 at 16:02
| That particular mystery doesn't interest me much. Now if you want to get started on whether Richard III killed his nephews or not, I'm in. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 09 2016 at 09:44
I don't know anything about Richard lll and his nephews...but knowing how royalty always seems to fight among themselves for control of a throne... it doesn't surprise me if that happened. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 09 2016 at 14:01
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I think that Richard III question was answered in the first episode of Black Adder. ;) Nice to see the film Titus mentioned in this thread, love it. My favourite Shakey plays are probably Othello and King Lear. |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: February 09 2016 at 16:19
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Macbeth. I loved reading as disguised Malcolm in highschool. Purrrr... the cat is grey. ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 09 2016 at 19:37
He either killed them personally, or, more likely, had them killed. They found their skeletons in 1674 during some remodeling in the Tower. Once they were imprisoned in the Tower, they died there. Much like Richard II never escaped incarceration by the usurper Henry IV. If you grab the ultimate prize in a coup, you never leave anyone alive who might come back to take it from you. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 13 2016 at 03:37
There is humour in all Shakespeare plays, even in "Macbeth" (which is the shortest but has the most characters dying in it, even more than "Hamlet"). -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Piffol_Four_Times
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 07:18
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King Lear by a long way. But to pick one from the list - Macbeth
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Posted By: Prog Snob
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 07:28
There are so many great ones, and it could change at any given time, but the old-fashioned romantic in me chose Romeo and Juliet. Placing second would probably be Macbeth.
Who was it supposedly, Sir Francis Drake? ------------- 
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Posted By: Piffol_Four_Times
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 08:21
That only applies to actors, who have acted or might possibly act in it.....innit? ;)
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Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 08:32
There are many theories and many suggestions have been put forward as to who the "true" author is. A google search will probably help out.
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Posted By: emigre80
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 08:32
are you sure you want to risk it?
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