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Poll Question: What is your favorite Shakespeare play?
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    Posted: September 26 2006 at 13:40
    
So, which play is your favorite? I have to go with Romeo & Juliet because I saw an amazing performance of it at a festival once. I also like Othello and Much Ado About Nothing.
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Do you know "Coriolanus"? Also: "Othello" and "Macbeth".
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"Macbeth" above all others, then "King Lear" and "Hamlet".
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I go for Twelfth Night, becuase I studied it for English Lit O level, so I got to know it pretty well.
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RICHARD III  !!!Clap 

i have seen most Shakespeare plays over the years at various venues, especially The Globe Theatre by the Thames near the Millennium Bridge - it is a great experience, i highly recommend it!
 
 
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I've never seen a real Shakespeare play; but I saw "Prospero's Books". Peter Greenaway was on fire when he decided to do some Shakespeare on it's own way, so I guess "The Tempest" would be my favourite, since I suspect that Greenaway's version (very psychedelic - space rock indeed) is actually very close to the spirit of the play. Other cinematic versións of mr. Shakespeare are just boring or disgusting. This version was plain genius.
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Macbeth and Hamlet
I love the darker themes.


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I saw a trailer for a contemporary version of Macbeth, looks pretty bad.

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Toss up between 'Othello' and 'Titus Andronicus' for me - if there are any opera lovers out there, I'd highly recommend Verdi's 'Otello', too - and if you want to see the definitive film version of same:



Placido Domingo & Justino Diaz as Othello & Iago, Katia Ricciarelli as Desdemona & Zefferelli in the director's chair - stunning!
    

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Macbeth
    


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Macbeth will win this POLL
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I'm not familiar with the whole bibliography of William, but from which I have readed or seen as a theater play or a movie, I have liked "Hamlet" most. I think that the main theme of seeking justification for a revenge, and all of the many small sideline running it are fabulous. I have seen also many different versions of it, and they have all been good and very different. There are also many wonderful solioloques in there, and I'm not just meaning the "to be or not to be".
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A toss up between Taming Of The Shrew and Much Ado about Nothing for me
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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The Tempest does it for me - I'm familiar with most of them, but The Tempest was the last play he wrote alone (according to most Shakespeare scholars) and was also the most consistently powerful of his plays IMO.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

A toss up between Taming Of The Shrew and Much Ado about Nothing for me
 
The Taming of The Shrew makes me grimace with embarrassment over the overtly chauvenist theme and its general depiction of women... I find it very hard to watch these days.
 
Much Ado is otoh possibly his finest comedy....Clap
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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

The Tempest does it for me - I'm familiar with most of them, but The Tempest was the last play he wrote alone (according to most Shakespeare scholars) and was also the most consistently powerful of his plays IMO.
 
My main problem with The Tempest is that having studied it for 2 years and taken it to pieces several times and put it back together again, tended to take all the fun out of it for me!!LOL
 
My probable faves are Henry VI Parts I & II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor... why?  Because of Falstaff!!!
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Tempest for me, a perfect mix of the humorous and serious.
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I have studied "Hamlet" extensively (and have seen many different versions), so intimate knowledge makes it my favorite. "Richard III" comes next. After that it is hard to pick. I am a big Shakespeare fan.
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Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

"Macbeth" above all others, then "King Lear" and "Hamlet".
 
Difficult to choose, but those 3 are great choices. Thumbs Up
 
 
I also like Henry 5, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliette ....& MORE!
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From my limited experience, Julius Caesar or Romeo and Juliet.
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