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Poll Question: What is your favorite Shakespeare play?
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From what I've read (not in any particular order):

Hamlet
Macbeth
Julius Caesar

All of them fantastic plays in terms of story and characterization.
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Originally posted by Jim Garten, trying to look classy Jim Garten, trying to look classy wrote:

t**ser between 'Othello' and 'Tightass Androgynous' for me - if there are any cat lovers out there, I'd highly recommend Verdi's 'Otello', too - and if you want to see the definitive porno version of same:

 

Flaccid ol' Domingo & Cameron Diaz as Othello & Fago, Katia Ricciarelli as Desdemoaner & Zefferelli in the director's bed - studly!
    
 
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The Scottish Play
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Peter, you sod - you just cannot resist, can you?; there's me trying to inject just a little alternative culture into this thread, hoping beyond hope to maybe interest someone other than myself into the grand world of Italian opera... and what do I get, eh? Vaguely soft porn p*** taking from a man who should know better.

For shame, sir!

As to your constant torpedoeing of my attempts at cultural cross-reference...

"How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of"

Quite

Or even...

Yah boo shucks & up yer bum




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    ^^^Not all in vain Jim. I love Italian opera, and Zeffirelli's films. I was unaware of this version, and shall be seeking it out.
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Hamlet, partly because of the Laurence Olivier film version. tough choise, though.
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Macbeth the best ever...introducing the root of evil & violence Clap 
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Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

     ^^^Not all in vain Jim. I love Italian opera, and Zeffirelli's films. I was unaware of this version, and shall be seeking it out.


Well worth the effort - easily (and cheaply) available on Amazon. In fact, due to this thread I've just replaced my old VHS version.

Unusually for opera adaptations, it stands alone as a great film, too.
    

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

     ^^^Not all in vain Jim. I love Italian opera, and Zeffirelli's films. I was unaware of this version, and shall be seeking it out.


Well worth the effort - easily (and cheaply) available on Amazon. In fact, due to this thread I've just replaced my old VHS version.

Unusually for opera adaptations, it stands alone as a great film, too.
    
 
I've just experienced Joseph Losey's 'Don Giovanni' as part of an OU course I'm doing....
 
.... I think I'll stick to prog..LOL
 
...although I did enjoy Zeffirelli's R&J, if that's any consolation...Big smile
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I enjoyed Macbeth the most.
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I'm not as familiar as I'd like to be with the bard's works, but I have seen a few on stage over the years of which the first I saw, Hamlet with Derek Jacobi while I was doing A level, was probably the best, though I would really like to see Macbeth. Seen a few of the comedies - enjoyed a Midsummer Nights Dream, but didn't really like Taming of the Shrew (with Josie Lawrence)
On celluloid, Orson Welles did some great performances (including Othello), and he played Falstaff in the film "Chimes at midnight" that followed the character through the "Henry" plays (oops I forget how many there are...) - one of my favourite films.
Amazes me how many sayings come from Shakespeare - eg, Falstaff is the character who after hiding from a battle coins the term "discretion is the better part of valour" (or something very similar!).
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You haven't added the only good one..The Tempest
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Originally posted by NutterAlert NutterAlert wrote:

You haven't added the only good one..The Tempest
Did you really mean "the only good one"(?!) or did you mean "the only one you like"?Big smile
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in fact...the only one I have read that I could understand Tongue

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^ Aha! Well I'll show my ignorance here by saying that I can usually pick up the general theme of the plays but - the dialogue loses me sometimes. I find it helps to see it acted rather than just to read it. Always found it a bit dry at school, until I got to see it on stage.
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I read Much Ado About Nothing last year for English and enjoyed it a lot
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Not familiar with all Billy's stuff but of what I know I like "The taming of the shrew", it remembers me errr... forget! Big smile
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Hamlet, though Othello isn't far off base either. Henry V is dead to me.
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Originally posted by epifreak epifreak wrote:

Hamlet, though Othello isn't far off base either. Henry V is dead to me.
 
He's dead to everyone, in fact.Geek
Henry V
By the Grace of God, King of England,

Heir and Regent of the Kingdom of France

and Lord of Ireland

Reign 21 March 1413 - 31 August 1422
Coronation 1413
Born 16 September 1387
Monmouth, Wales
Died 31 August 1422
Bois de Vincennes
Buried Westminster
Predecessor Henry IV
Successor Henry VI
Consort Catherine of Valois (1401-1437)
Issue Henry VI (1421-1471)
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Father Henry IV (1367-1413)
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^^ he died of dysentery aged 34, leaving a 9 month old son to inherit the throne, which indirectly plunged England & Wales into civil war for 30 years, between 1455 and 1485 (if anyone is at all interested...Geek)
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