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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Things have got a bit heated in other threads, let’s have a bit of culture. Name your favourite Shakespeare plays. You can divide them into comedies, tragedies and histories of you wish. I’ll start.

Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Comedy Of Errors.

Tragedies: Macbeth, Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus

Histories: Henry V and Richard III

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

His sister was more fun

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Ironheart666, perhaps you could concisely explain to me and the other fabbers the literary significance of The Great Bard and his repertoire of work?

I studied many of them, principally the most commonly known at school, but the VAST majority went over my head?

Thanks.

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By *phrodite72Woman
over a year ago

dublin/galway

Veni vidi vici julius caesar my favourite

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

I really enjoyed macbeth and the merchant of Venice when I did them in school many many years ago. So much so I actually bought a book with all his plays. I've also seen a few of his plays on stage and they were great especially a midsummers night's dream.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Ironheart666, perhaps you could concisely explain to me and the other fabbers the literary significance of The Great Bard and his repertoire of work?

I studied many of them, principally the most commonly known at school, but the VAST majority went over my head?

Through the characters in the plays, the human condition and human emotions are explored and in that way we can relate to them. He was a poet and he wrote his plays based on his view of life in the context of a fictional story. The fact that people find it hard to understand is maybe because they aren’t allowing their artistic mind to let loose. Either that or they haven’t seen a good production of it lol once you get around some of the flowery language, the stories are actually quite entertaining.

Thanks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Macbeth was the only one i enjoyed in school. Julius Caesar was the worst.

Mrs S

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By *iss3BWoman
over a year ago

north down

I'm so uncultured

Not a big literary fan

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Recently read The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson which is a modern retelling of A Winter's Tale.. So creative to imagine the premise of these plays in a contemporary, relatable setting. Highly recommend

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By *R BxMan
over a year ago

wonderland

Sons of anarchy is loosely based on Hamlet .. and I've seen that series twice . Does that make me cultured

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Funnily enough,I had a conversation with a fabber last night, Shakespearean works came up, how cultured are we?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I prefer the sonnets

"Sometime all full with feasting on your sight

And by and by clean starved for a look."

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By *ake osheaMan
over a year ago

Dublin

Hilary Mantel’s books on Thomas Cromwell are really something (not the lad who burned his away across Ireland, he came later)

Worth checking out the bbc tv series if the books don’t do it for you.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tu-who, a merry note,

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

Always loved that phrase. Wonder are there any greasy Joans on Fab....

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By *phrodite72Woman
over a year ago

dublin/galway

"Tu-who, a merry note,

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

Always loved that phrase. Wonder are there any greasy Joans on Fab...."

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne

Actually went to see Macbeth in the RSC years ago when doing Leaving Cert. Alan Rickman was in it and it had never made sense until I saw it.

Got an honour in English.

Cheers Alan, for that and all the movies you were excellent in too

Gone but never forgotten.

Great actor

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Comedy: As You Like It... mainly because of the dick jokes.

Histories: Henry V, Richard III

Tragedies: all of them but Macbeth and Hamlet most of all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

”Exit pursued by a bear” is my favorite it’s much beyond it’s time for something like that

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"”Exit pursued by a bear” is my favorite it’s much beyond it’s time for something like that "

That would be A Winter’s Tale. One of the few comedies where somebody dies. Bonus point if you know the other one lol

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By *ed_AliceWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

I saw Richard III in the round at the Tower of London quite a few years ago, fantastic production.

I still have my copy of Macbeth from school, definitely a favourite.

Taming of the Shrew & the profusion of modern adaptations/versions sneakily feeding you Shakespeare

I recently read Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed which inspired me to read The Tempest.

The tales are timeless - love, death, ambition, betrayal, jealousy, false assumptions - all of life spread before us

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