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Poll Question: pick your favorite Shakspear play from this list of the most popular.
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    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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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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Titus Andronicus for me. I wouldn't eat a pie for months after first seeing it.
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Richard III for me. It takes the term "despicable' to a whole new level.
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Midsummer Night's Dream.........heh...I like the light hearted ones. Embarrassed
 
 
'What fools these  mortals be...'
 
 


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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)
 
 
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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.
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Macbeth (no capital b) and Hamlet
Followed by Othello and The Tempest
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No vote for Hamlet or Othello yet? That’s outrageous! The prince of Denmark gets my vote.
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Out of this list, Macbeth hands down. Such a dark, powerful story!
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Originally posted by refugee refugee wrote:

No vote for Hamlet or Othello yet? That’s outrageous! The prince of Denmark gets my vote.


hah!!  There is no such thing as a Shakespeare bagel... even knuckle dragging high culture neanderthals like me understand that.

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The Scottish Play. I like the gory and supernatural elements.
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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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Chose MacBeth here, but just saw a steampunk rendition of A Comedy of Errors last weekend.  It was brilliant, naughty and very slapstick.
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You all do know that it's bad luck to call the Scottish play by its correct name, right?
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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.....
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Originally posted by Intruder Intruder wrote:

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.
 
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.
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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.
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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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