favorite shakespeare play
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Topic: favorite shakespeare play
Posted By: yesfan88
Subject: favorite shakespeare play
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 13:40
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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. ------------- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"- Evelyn Beatrice Hall |
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 15:20
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Do you know "Coriolanus"? Also: "Othello" and "Macbeth". ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 15:27
| "Macbeth" above all others, then "King Lear" and "Hamlet". |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 15:55
| I go for Twelfth Night, becuase I studied it for English Lit O level, so I got to know it pretty well. |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 16:02
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RICHARD III !!! 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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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 18:19
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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. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 18:26
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Macbeth and Hamlet I love the darker themes. |
Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 18:55
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I saw a trailer for a contemporary version of Macbeth, looks pretty bad. ------------- 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 03:55
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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Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 03:58
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Macbeth
When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? love the witches stuff |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 04:02
| Macbeth will win this POLL |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 04:06
| 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". |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 04:15
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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 content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 15:05
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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. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 15:10
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....  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Sean Trane wrote:Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 15:13
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!!
 My probable faves are Henry VI Parts I & II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor... why? Because of Falstaff!!! ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Psychedelia
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 17:13
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Tempest for me, a perfect mix of the humorous and serious. ------------- Another emotional suicide, overdosed on sentiment and pride |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 17:30
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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. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 23:25
Difficult to choose, but those 3 are great choices.
 I also like Henry 5, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliette ....& MORE! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 23:28
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From my limited experience, Julius Caesar or Romeo and Juliet. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 23:29
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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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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 27 2006 at 23:38
 Flaccid ol' Domingo, eh Jimberly? Well, I amuse me, anyway....
  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 03:05
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The Scottish Play ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 03:54
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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 http://www.freesmileys.org"> 
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 09:52
^^^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.  ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 10:03
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Hamlet, partly because of the Laurence Olivier film version. tough choise, though. ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: Uther
Date Posted: September 28 2006 at 14:22
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Macbeth the best ever...introducing the root of evil & violence ------------- What! can the devil speak true? Macbeth, 1. 3 |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 03:14
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. -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 05:46
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..
...although I did enjoy Zeffirelli's R&J, if that's any consolation...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Toon
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 07:13
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I enjoyed Macbeth the most.
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 08:37
| 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!). |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 08:39
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You haven't added the only good one..The Tempest ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 08:45
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Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 08:47
in fact...the only one I have read that I could understand  ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 08:52
| ^ 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. |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: September 29 2006 at 22:50
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I read Much Ado About Nothing last year for English and enjoyed it a lot -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 18:10
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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! ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: epifreak
Date Posted: October 01 2006 at 23:59
| Hamlet, though Othello isn't far off base either. Henry V is dead to me. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 15:36
He's dead to everyone, in fact.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 17:24
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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...) ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 03:55
A tragic end, indeed - in this rare photograph from the time, we see the very moment when the entire English army (who are all suffering the effects of dysentry, by the looks of things) look to their king for guidance... 
"...what you mean, this is the last of the toilet paper?" -------------
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 04:30
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No votes for King Lear?! Another play I liked and like is Macbeth. |
Here's one from me.Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 04:46
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What, no one likes Titus Andronicus ?
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