FabSwingers.com forum: Favourite Shakespeare Play

By *ensuallover1000 OP Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Good folks; What is your personal favourite of Shakespeare’s many plays?

What is your favourite Shakespeare quote?

Me? I’ve never read one in my entire bloody life but was just gauging how cultured you all are…

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

You're missing out bud, surely you studied Romeo and Juliet in school? A midsummer night's dream is a good one, also The Tempest

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

Sorry not a fan of Shakespeare but if i had to pick one Romeo and Juliette because ive been to Verona

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By *assy69Man
over a year ago

West Sussex and Wales

Reading them has always defeated me, but fro time to time I will spend a few days in Stratford and try and see a play whenever I am there. It is much easier to “get it” sat there watching the performance

Midsummer Night’s Dream is a barrel of laughs, and I do enjoy Much Ado About Nothing

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By *ove2pleaseseukMan
over a year ago

Hastings

"Good folks; What is your personal favourite of Shakespeare’s many plays?

What is your favourite Shakespeare quote?

Me? I’ve never read one in my entire bloody life but was just gauging how cultured you all are…

Like a lot of the plays

As for Quote has to be.

A horse a horse my kingdom for a horses.

Not how it was first written.

It was I have been walking all day my legs gone wonky some one find me a bludy Donky.

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

Get up to Shakey’s home town and watch one..

Henry IV Part One and Twelth Night are an easy watch.

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By *izandpaulCouple
over a year ago

merseyside

Never found them the best reads but if you want to give it a whirl I'd recommend MKD.

Don't be frightened to say you don't like certain literature, it's not for everyone and can have a bit of snobbery attached to it. The best literature is the one you enjoy.

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

sons of anarchy

Other wise known as hamlet

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Ken Brannaghs: Much ado about nothing

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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

The Scottish Play by far.

And this line: To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Romeo and Juliet. One of the greatest love stories ever told I think.

I much prefer any modern version of it but credit to Billy Shakespear for writing it

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By *ed VoluptaWoman
over a year ago

Wirral.

David Tennant as Richard II is sublime. I really want to see him as MacBeth too.

Or any of the Hollow Crown series by the BBC were pretty good. I do love shakespeare's history plays.

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By *istyPeaksCouple
over a year ago

braintree

Midsummer or Hamlet. Depending on my mood.

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice are all good.

"To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them?"

I can recommend The Globe on London's South Bank. I've seen a couple of plays there and both were excellent.

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

You need to watch them rather than read them. I love A Midsummer Night's Dream, I've seen that done really well on stage. But I also love Much Ado About Nothing. That's more to do with Keanu Reeves and Denzel Washington though

The one I can watch most would be the 1996 version of Romeo + Juliet. The actors were brilliant

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By *ove2pleaseseukMan
over a year ago

Hastings

If you do want to read them I pefure to Reed the script's just my preference audio book is good as well.

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By *entlemanFoxMan
over a year ago

North East / London

Always had a soft spot for the Merchant of Venice.

I imagine Portia would make an excellent swinging partner.

'In terms of choice, I am not solely led by nice direction of a maiden's eyes'

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

He told a decent tale to be sure..

The film Shakespeare in Love is great and better if you know those plays ..

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By *osaint1971Couple
over a year ago

Near Taunton

Mel Gibson is remarkably good as Hamlet.

Little known fact, the working title of the play was Helmet but QE1 made him change it due to her sensibilities.

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By *lephantisMan
over a year ago

Oxford

I've read them all, plus the narrative poems and sonnets. There is definitely variation of quality! Don't bother with Henry VI Part 2, would be my strong advice...

But definitely Lear. Too many quotations to pick, but one would be Lear's outburst of deep human empathy: 'O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars

Are in the poorest thing superfluous.

Allow not nature more than nature needs,

Man's life as cheap as beasts.'

But I could easily quote two dozen more extraordinary examples.

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

King Lear or Hamlet, although I think his greatest creation was Falstaff. Going to see The Tempest soon in Stratford for hope its a good production, most are pretty grim these days.

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

"The Scottish Play by far.

And this line: To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come"

Isn't that from Hamlet, not Macbeth ?

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

"King Lear or Hamlet, although I think his greatest creation was Falstaff. Going to see The Tempest soon in Stratford for hope its a good production, most are pretty grim these days."

Hamlet is Toms favourite..

Loved the adverts when Hamlet smoked those cigars..

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

"King Lear or Hamlet, although I think his greatest creation was Falstaff. Going to see The Tempest soon in Stratford for hope its a good production, most are pretty grim these days."

Leo... Your mask has slipped..

Leo likes Theatre...?

And Shakespeare?

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

"King Lear or Hamlet, although I think his greatest creation was Falstaff. Going to see The Tempest soon in Stratford for hope its a good production, most are pretty grim these days.

Hamlet is Toms favourite..

Loved the adverts when Hamlet smoked those cigars.."

'Brevity is the soul of wit' Tom. Something often forgotten on Forum.

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

"King Lear or Hamlet, although I think his greatest creation was Falstaff. Going to see The Tempest soon in Stratford for hope its a good production, most are pretty grim these days.

Leo... Your mask has slipped..

Leo likes Theatre...?

And Shakespeare?

We are all 'merely players' Tom

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

"King Lear or Hamlet, although I think his greatest creation was Falstaff. Going to see The Tempest soon in Stratford for hope its a good production, most are pretty grim these days.

Leo... Your mask has slipped..

Leo likes Theatre...?

And Shakespeare?

We are all 'merely players' Tom

On Toms stage Leo

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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

"The Scottish Play by far.

And this line: To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

Isn't that from Hamlet, not Macbeth ?"

It is… 10 points off for a tired Littlebird earlier

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

"hail Edmund lord of addersblack"

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

King Lear

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Anyone who likes any of these and the lore around him should definitely watch Upstart Crow.

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

Much Ado about Nothing

"Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably"

I like to think Benedick is saying they're going to have loud sex. But I'm probably wrong.

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Macbeth is my favourite , studied it as a kid and saw various times including a Tarantino version, very fitting.

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By *oeofsussexMan
over a year ago

Eastbourne

‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’

(Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5)

… which largely sums up most of the drivel on these forums! Anyway, watch any of the famous plays - they were meant for everyone and the only barrier is the language. If you want to read them you may struggle more than watching them but a wise investment would be a good edition like the Arden Shakespeare which gives wonderful scholarly footnotes to guide you through all the lingual pitfalls. But Shakespeare was a master of language, of thought, wit, sarcasm and drama. If you ever enjoyed the Elizabethan Blackadder Shakespeare is really a very close cousin but with a more thought-provoking and clever script.

Shakespeare has been a source of inspiration to every author, poet, playwright, musician and artist down the centuries and really is a keystone of not just Western but world culture. Dismiss him and you lose out on perhaps the most inflential writer in global history.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

I'll always have a soft spot for A Midsummer Night's Dream - the risqué humour, the absolutely beautiful imagery throughout, especially in Act II which starts with the infamous line "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania".

But there's something about King Lear which has my heart. That storm scene? Truly magical.

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By *affeine DuskMan
over a year ago

Caerphilly

I like Twelfth Night, I could deep-dive into a few other choices for various reasons but a good version of Twelfth Night can bang out dick jokes on average every 30 seconds and I just gotta be me, y'know?

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

I like his one about puns.

it's a play in words

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By *orphia2003Woman
over a year ago

Tonypandy.

Taming of the shrew.

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

I studied Hamlet and Ot_ello for my degree so I have a soft spot for them. Hamlet is fascinating on so many levels.

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By *lephantisMan
over a year ago

Oxford

"I'll always have a soft spot for A Midsummer Night's Dream - the risqué humour, the absolutely beautiful imagery throughout, especially in Act II which starts with the infamous line "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania".

But there's something about King Lear which has my heart. That storm scene? Truly magical."

The way late Shakespeare just stomps all over the iambic pentameter in that scene, so that the storm in Lear's mind and that outside feed off each other is THE great Man v Nature setpiece.

'Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!' 8 monosyllables, at least 6 of them stressed. An 80 year old man,'on the very verge of his confine', hurling his dragon's wrath and defiance back at Zeus/Thor himself.

And yet less than 2 hours later, that same actor has the unbearably tender scene where he pretends, to himself above all, that his dead, beloved Cordelia might yet be alive. Calling for a feather to see if her breath might move it, then a mirror to see if she will mist it, he whispers 'Her voice was ever low, gentle and low', while the watching characters beg for their own hearts to break.

Utterly, transcendantally human.

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

David Mitchell and Ben Elton at their finest

https://youtu.be/AG14YKyyb7A

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By *affeine DuskMan
over a year ago

Caerphilly

But there's something about King Lear which has my heart. That storm scene? Truly magical.

The way late Shakespeare just stomps all over the iambic pentameter in that scene, so that the storm in Lear's mind and that outside feed off each other is THE great Man v Nature setpiece.

Utterly, transcendantally human.

Heh, I like that.

'Stomps all over the iamb', that's satisfying to read

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By *astandtheCurious2Couple
over a year ago

letchworth

Definitely the tempest

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By *inister_SpinsterWoman
over a year ago

Manchester(ish).

I'm partial to Ot_ello

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

"Good folks; What is your personal favourite of Shakespeare’s many plays?

What is your favourite Shakespeare quote?

Me? I’ve never read one in my entire bloody life but was just gauging how cultured you all are…

I don't think you can necessarily equate love of Shakespeare with being "cultured". I think his plays have been on UK school sylibuses for ever and getting force fed anything can put you off. Especially Shakespeare because the language can be difficult to understand and you need a good teacher to explain it. Theres a lot of inbuilt snobbery in the term "cultured" and what does it really mean.

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

"Good folks; What is your personal favourite of Shakespeare’s many plays?

What is your favourite Shakespeare quote?

Me? I’ve never read one in my entire bloody life but was just gauging how cultured you all are…

This is very true. Teaching of Shakespeare is mostly awful and puts so many people off.

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

Who dis Shakespeare?

‘The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.'

As You Like It, Act 5

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

"Good folks; What is your personal favourite of Shakespeare’s many plays?

What is your favourite Shakespeare quote?

Me? I’ve never read one in my entire bloody life but was just gauging how cultured you all are…

‘I am not bound to please thee with my answer.’

The Merchant of Venice, Act 4

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

Henry IV part 1 for me.

Hal’s reformation speech.

I know you all and will awhile uphold the the unliked humour of your idleness.

Perhaps a new Prince Harry could read it.

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By *s2pervsCouple
over a year ago

Truro

Cultured? Grown in a petri dish?

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By *ixenforfunWoman
over a year ago

banes mask

"The Scottish Play by far.

And this line: To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come"

Bringing me back to my secondary school days

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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago

Manchester (he/him)

“There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio.”

Hamlet.

My favourite play has got to be The Tempest though. The humour, the daft story, the semi autobiographical nature of Prospero. It helps that I’ve adapted the play twice but I adore it

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

The Tempest is a favourite of mine!

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By *ixenforfunWoman
over a year ago

banes mask

Studied Hamlet and Much Ado about Nothing in secondary. I loved shakespeare and had a collection of his plays and poems until my very lovely egg donor threw it out one day because she was pissed off at me. I was devestated

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

I only know of Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. Both enjoyable as a read and on stage. Not had enough coffee yet to ponder on favourite quotes.

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By *dwalu2Couple
over a year ago

Bristol

Measure for Measure is probably favourite, but as for quotes, it’s got to be Duke Orsino from Twelfth Night:

‘If music be the food of love, play on;

Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken, and so die.’

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By *JohnMan
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

I don't have a favourite play, but for a favourite performance it's Antony Sher as Falstaff in the 2014 RSC production of Henry IV 1 and 2. He was incredible.

I'm slowly reading my way through all of them, using the Arden editions. The footnotes are invaluable - I'd never have guessed they were that rude without having the jokes explained.

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

"I don't have a favourite play, but for a favourite performance it's Antony Sher as Falstaff in the 2014 RSC production of Henry IV 1 and 2. He was incredible.

I'm slowly reading my way through all of them, using the Arden editions. The footnotes are invaluable - I'd never have guessed they were that rude without having the jokes explained."

What an actor! Saw him as Richard III, exceptional.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Hamlet and julius caesar. But the national theatre performance of Midsomers was superb. If you haven't seen it try to.

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

"when shall we three meet again"

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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

I have actually had some sleep so I won’t quote the wrong play again today

I love this one so much it’s a tattoo of mine

All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

And this one is definitely from As you like it

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

"I have actually had some sleep so I won’t quote the wrong play again today

I love this one so much it’s a tattoo of mine

They have their exits and their entrances;

I hope it is positioned appropriately

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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

"I have actually had some sleep so I won’t quote the wrong play again today

I love this one so much it’s a tattoo of mine

They have their exits and their entrances;

I hope it is positioned appropriately

Well of course…

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By *idlandiaMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

'Exit, pursued by a bear'

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By *ima7893Man
over a year ago

Cardiff

Henry V!

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By *jonesMan
over a year ago

Plymouth

"Henry V!"

definitely

Oh for a muse of fire

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By *ourbonKissMan
over a year ago

a land up north..... of leicester

All of the above but Ot_ello is a personal favourite of mine. The merchant of Venice is a decent watch too

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

I read a lot of the bards sonnets.

116 is a particular favourite!

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

After English lessons in school, does anyone still like Shakespeare?!

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

"After English lessons in school, does anyone still like Shakespeare?!

I had great teachers, so yes.

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By *dwalu2Couple
over a year ago

Bristol

"After English lessons in school, does anyone still like Shakespeare?!

There wouldn’t be many people who liked Shakespeare without them.

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax

Ot_ello is amazing.

As is the film adaptation by Orson Welles.

Bits of Henry 4 pt 2 also.

Romeo and Juliet though.

(negative) Ooft. Don't get me started..

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

"Good folks; What is your personal favourite of Shakespeare’s many plays?

What is your favourite Shakespeare quote?

Me? I’ve never read one in my entire bloody life but was just gauging how cultured you all are…

The play you shouldn’t name if your performing it… if you know then you know

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

The merry wives of windsor also known as sir John falsaff,falsaff was a fictional character,he was instrumental in the battle of agincourt for Henry V, the film The King on Netflix is based on Shakespeares Henry V play

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

"Good folks; What is your personal favourite of Shakespeare’s many plays?

What is your favourite Shakespeare quote?

Me? I’ve never read one in my entire bloody life but was just gauging how cultured you all are…

The play you shouldn’t name if your performing it… if you know then you know"

I've give the first line of this up there ^^^^^^^

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

Hamlet

Macbeth

A midsummer night's dream

I'm over Romeo & Juliet. Its been done to death, by this point. It's still a great play but the premise just is not special anymore, so has been tainted.

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By *ervent_fervourMan
over a year ago

Halifax

"Hamlet

Macbeth

A midsummer night's dream

I'm over Romeo & Juliet. Its been done to death, by this point. It's still a great play but the premise just is not special anymore, so has been tainted. "

I do want to brain Romeo, the three inch fool mouldy rogue.

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By *erriman69Couple
over a year ago

highworth

Much ado... always hilarious

Saw Richard III a few years ago and it was very funny as well... which is hard to believe but it was!

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

"After English lessons in school, does anyone still like Shakespeare?!

I had great teachers, so yes. "

You're all too bright for me, I couldn't understand a word he was on about

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

"After English lessons in school, does anyone still like Shakespeare?!

I had great teachers, so yes.

You're all too bright for me, I couldn't understand a word he was on about

Fun fact, Shakespeare was the first person to invent 1700 words that we still use today.

Okay, he likely didn't invent all 1700 words (though a fair few he did). Most were likely commonly spoken during that era, and he was (one of) the first to have them written down.

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

BBC Four broadcast Twelfth Night the other day. It's probably available through iPlayer.

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By *lderflower_AppleWoman
over a year ago

Basingstoke

I think Shakespeare is best enjoyed being performed rather than read. To watch it you don't need to actually fully understand the phrasing, and if it's been staged well you still follow what's going on and get the emotions and sentiments.

I've seen Midsummer Nights Dream so many times, but the most memorable was at Regents Park Open Air Theatre. It was truly magical.

Also saw Macbeth re-imagined as being set in the 1980s which was an experience!

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By *rego69Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Often visit Stratford On Avon and stroll up Henley Street to ask Mrs Shakespeare if Willy is coming out to play.

We are working our way through them.

My favourite is King Lear. It resonates with Inheritance Tax. And today I compared how similar it was to the undertones of Mother Goose only for it to be confirmed in a recording of John Bishops chat show by Sir Ian.

We saw Galdalf as Lear and he exposed his Willy on stage during the madness on the heath scene. Amazing to see him as a dame today in Panto

I agree about Stratford. Take the bus tour. Visit the houses. See a play. The Globe in London has excellent productions too.

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

Like when Blackadder said he gave Shakey a good hiding for all the misery he had caused schoolchildren in the past 400 years.

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By *oddess NailaWoman
over a year ago

London & Edinburgh

I’ve tried to read a few but given up however I do love some of the modern retellings like 10 things I hate about you (Taming of the Shrew) or Sons of Anarchy (Hamlet)

It’s much better watching them though can get pricey!

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

I read the simplified versions by Garfield to the children when they were younger, easier to understand but loses nothing in translation.

We read Romeo and Juliet and then went to see it at The Globe in London. 3 hours, I fell asleep but my then 8 year old loved every minute and followed the play ravenously.

We then read The merchant of Venice and I took them to Venice and we stood on the Rialto Bridge, which brought it home to them vividly.

My absolute fav though has to be The taming of the shrew, reimagined into Kiss me Kate or 10 Things I hate about you with Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger.

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

Think it's time for a Sons of Anarchy rewatch

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

I love Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth. I quite enjoyed Twelfth Night too.

Saw Anne-Marie Duff in a production of Macbeth & it was amazing

J x

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Macbeth of course.

Upstart crow by Ben Elton is a great watch as well.

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By *dge23217Man
over a year ago

seattle

Antony and Cleopatra. I love a tragic ending...not sure what that says about me haha.

The Tempest is a close second.

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By *dge23217Man
over a year ago

seattle

Love that one. The Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton version is my favorite.

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

A Midsummer Nights Dream

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

Much a doo about nothing and loves labours lost

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

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I really liked bad boys and men in black.

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By *he_Wite_NiteMan
over a year ago

Usually Dundee and around

Surprised no one has mentioned Corialanus! Aka "The anus play"

If you can't be bothered with reading it, then Ralph Fiennes' film version is worth a view.

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By *rego69Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

It’s his birthday on Sunday.

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By *KloganMan
over a year ago

Ramsbottom

I discovered the macabre of Macbeth at school and loves it ever since.. best of Shakespeare’s brilliance, convince me otherwise…

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By *tsJustKateWoman
over a year ago

London

Nope, Shakespeare (or as my teacher once called him 'Billy Wobbledagger')leaves me cold.

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

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Ot_ello I studied it in school

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

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I love Macbeth. Very fond of Hamlet, too. My wife's favourite was King Lear - she loved the use of The Fool (probably why she married me). I also saw a most excellent performance of Ot_ello at the Globe some years back, with Tim McInerny as Iago - utterly brilliant portrayal of the character.

The Ian McKellen Richard III is a superb modern adaptation;and for sheer horror, the film adaptation of Titus Andronicus with Jessica Lange and Anthony Hopkins is first rate. The best Henry V for me is actually Tom Hiddlestone's. The speech before the Battle of Agincourt ("we few, we happy few; we band of brothers" etc.) was staged in a much more intimate, intense and frankly sensible way that, for me, made it all the more powerful.

Sigh. Tom Hiddlestone...

I love Shakespeare - I've read around 2/3 of his plays and seen several film and stage versions of most of the main ones. I never tire of him.

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

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"Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing."

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By *elloWoman
over a year ago

alpha centauri

My favourite is taming of the shrew.

I saw a 3 person rendition of Macbeth which was very entertaining

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By *elloWoman
over a year ago

alpha centauri

"Anyone who likes any of these and the lore around him should definitely watch Upstart Crow.

Love upstart crow, went to see the first performance before lockdown, went with a friend who had never seen upstart crow or even read any Shakespeare, it was so funny she didn't have a clue what was happening, the whole audience was in fits of laughter but she just sat there bored

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

French writer Voltaire said he didn't like his plays,he said 'every Shakespeare play ends in death'

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over a year ago

My tip is to watch one of the open air performances - every summer they tour National Trust places or similar. A great atmosphere.

A few years ago I saw Comedy of Errors. Mid performance a plane flew overhead and the two actors stopped in their tracks.

"What the fuck was that?", said one of the Dromios. Who said Shakespeare can't be improved?

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

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"Anyone who likes any of these and the lore around him should definitely watch Upstart Crow.

Oh, if you know your Shakespeare, Upstart Crow is hilarious!

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

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"French writer Voltaire said he didn't like his plays,he said 'every Shakespeare play ends in death'"

Everyone's a critic...

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

"Surprised no one has mentioned Corialanus! Aka "The anus play"

If you can't be bothered with reading it, then Ralph Fiennes' film version is worth a view."

We took my mother in law to see that at the cinema years ago, when we still allowed her to visit. She was completely horrified and disgusted at the idea of watching something about anuses

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

They’re all the same. There’s a good character. They get manipulated by those around them. Something bad happens to them. Something bad then happens to the manipulator too. The end.

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By *uri00620Woman
over a year ago

Croydon

Not the comedies but maybe my sense of humour is too puerile to fully appreciate it. The tragedies win for me. Particular fondness for Macbeth, whether you like Shakespeare or not the plot itself is excellent and has informed so much that we read/see today.

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By *uri00620Woman
over a year ago

Croydon

"I love Macbeth. Very fond of Hamlet, too. My wife's favourite was King Lear - she loved the use of The Fool (probably why she married me). I also saw a most excellent performance of Ot_ello at the Globe some years back, with Tim McInerny as Iago - utterly brilliant portrayal of the character.

Sigh. Tom Hiddlestone...

I love Shakespeare - I've read around 2/3 of his plays and seen several film and stage versions of most of the main ones. I never tire of him.

Iago is a brilliant character. I had a cat with this name. He was a dick too

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Dont know that many.. But macbeth is very good. Hamlet... Maybe merchant of venice... I enjoy his work.

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

Romeo and Juliet. We watched the Roman Polanski version in School in English Lit class and I thought it was beautiful, heartbreaking at the end, but beautiful.

Baz Luhrman also did a decent job I thought with his version.

I don’t really have a favourite line that isn’t one of the often quoted ones.

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By *essicagraceWoman
over a year ago

birmingham

I love a lot but I'm obsessed with finding new readings of romeo and Juliet. My current favourite is "trying to please everyone will kill you" or "you cannot stop time, deal with it". There's so many references to wanting to bend time, similarly to great gatsby which is a cool comparison. Nerd

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

The Magnificent Seven

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

My son did Romeo & Juliet at school and summarised it as...

"He was 14, she was 13. They had sex, then they both died. Teacher made us act it out. That's never right."

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

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Sigh. Tom Hiddlestone...

I love Shakespeare - I've read around 2/3 of his plays and seen several film and stage versions of most of the main ones. I never tire of him.

Iago is a brilliant character. I had a cat with this name. He was a dick too

I agree, Iago is incredible. What I liked so much about that particular portrayal was the way he played to TNT audience, very much a wide humorous, engaging lad who actually got you laughing with him at the awful things he was doing. So insidious! I loved it!

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

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Sigh. Tom Hiddlestone...

I love Shakespeare - I've read around 2/3 of his plays and seen several film and stage versions of most of the main ones. I never tire of him.

Iago is a brilliant character. I had a cat with this name. He was a dick too

*the not TNT - dynamite performance though

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By *rder66Man
over a year ago

Tatooine

Tempest as his last play and reflects his other plays within the story, I used to teach drama and taught a lot of Shakespeae and before teaching I was an actor and performed in Merchant of Venace, Comedy of Errors but my favourate to peform was Midsummer Nights Dream which I played both Oberon and Thesseus.

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By *weetCherryWoman
over a year ago

London

Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

Game of Thrones

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"My son did Romeo & Juliet at school and summarised it as...

"He was 14, she was 13. They had sex, then they both died. Teacher made us act it out. That's never right."

Ahh... But its art...so that makes it ok..?

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By *aggonerMan
over a year ago

for a penny

I only started to appreciate Shakespeare (among others) after I left school. School killed it for me.

“If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well

It were done quickly”

From Macbeth.

I used to say that to my students ( not literature students) and they had no idea what I was on about. But it often seemed appropriate.

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

Can't stand Shakespeare

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By *aylamoonCouple
over a year ago

Darlington

Titus Andronicus always sticks in my mind. Rather gruesome! What a playwright he was. Finally visiting Stratford Upon Avon this year and I’m so excited!

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

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Arya Stark cooking the Frey sons into a pie in GoT is a direct derivative from Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare did horror!

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

I always preferred his beers to his bards

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By *e renard de la campagneMan
over a year ago

Surrey mostly when over

"Midsummer Night’s Dream

A fine choice, me too x

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Transsexual Transylvania

"Midsummer Night’s Dream

A fine choice, me too x"

Wonderful play.

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By *ldgeezermeMan
over a year ago

Newcastle

Ot_ello - making the beast with two backs

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By *e renard de la campagneMan
over a year ago

Surrey mostly when over

"Midsummer Night’s Dream

A fine choice, me too x

Wonderful play.

Although A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a cracker as well xx

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By *ittycock400Couple
over a year ago

Bristol

Midsummer Nights Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Transsexual Transylvania

"Game of Thrones "

You've been watching Philomena Cunk's documentaries, haven't you?

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

"Game of Thrones

You've been watching Philomena Cunk's documentaries, haven't you?

How did you know?!

Hahaha absolutely love them, comedy gold. She has had me in tears

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By *estarossa.Woman
over a year ago

Flagrante

I am weird, I have a soft spot for Henry V, from which we get the phrase "Band of Brothers" during a stirring speech prior to going into battle x

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

I am sorry i just don't enjoy anything Shakespearen, i don’t get it and don't really want to get it,' where fore owt thou Romeo lend me your ears', 'whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of misfortune'

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By *aughtyal80Man
over a year ago

darlington

The only ones I read were at school, midsummer night's dream, Macbeth, merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet.

I think I'd have a greater appreciation for them now I'm older.

They were all good to read though

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

Midsummer night's dream, I enjoyed it at the time as I had a great teacher, who could explain the imagery and humour.

But I couldn't name a quote without googling.. twas nigh on 30 years ago!!

But:

"The course of true love never did run smooth"

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

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By *ittycock400Couple
over a year ago

Bristol

"I am sorry i just don't enjoy anything Shakespearen, i don’t get it and don't really want to get it,' where fore owt thou Romeo lend me your ears', 'whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of misfortune'

Remember that most of what we read are actually scripts for plays. If you read a modern day script it would probably seem strange.

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

Remember that most of what we read are actually scripts for plays. If you read a modern day script it would probably seem strange."
It just doesn't appeal its like art you either get it or you don't, sometimes i get it but mostly not

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By *ewbie09Man
over a year ago

alcester

Ot_ello is my favourite play.

Romeo and Juliet act 3 scene 1 is my favourite scene.

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Transsexual Transylvania

"Game of Thrones

You've been watching Philomena Cunk's documentaries, haven't you?

How did you know?!

Hahaha absolutely love them, comedy gold. She has had me in tears

I absolutely love them. She's a scream.

I remember the one where she claimed GoT was Shakespeare, and that's the first thing thay popped into my head even I saw your comment.

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Transsexual Transylvania

*meh, spelling gremlins are in today...

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"Taming of the shrew."

I was wondering how far down the thread before we would finally get to this….

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By *ycom72Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

Hamlet

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

"Game of Thrones

You've been watching Philomena Cunk's documentaries, haven't you?

How did you know?!

Hahaha absolutely love them, comedy gold. She has had me in tears

I absolutely love them. She's a scream.

I remember the one where she claimed GoT was Shakespeare, and that's the first thing thay popped into my head even I saw your comment.

I have bust a gut so many times not expecting some of the lines she just comes out with to the experts. Her tone, dead pan delivery and comic timing is absolutely top drawer.

King Arthur Came-a-lot didn't he?!

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

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"Game of Thrones

You've been watching Philomena Cunk's documentaries, haven't you?

How did you know?!

Hahaha absolutely love them, comedy gold. She has had me in tears

I absolutely love them. She's a scream.

I remember the one where she claimed GoT was Shakespeare, and that's the first thing thay popped into my head even I saw your comment.

I have bust a gut so many times not expecting some of the lines she just comes out with to the experts. Her tone, dead pan delivery and comic timing is absolutely top drawer.

King Arthur Came-a-lot didn't he?!

One of my daughter's lecturers was one of her experts. I've tried unsuccessfully to get her to ask for details about how much warning they get about the batshit crazy questions.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Hamlet and king lear are my faves.

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

King Lear tops it for me.

Anthony Hopkins starred in a contemporary retelling of KL in 2018 on Netflix.

Hamlet a close second.

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By *riel13Woman
over a year ago

Northampton

I have loved Macbeth since reading it, at school and bought it (along with all the books we read at school) but have always wanted to go and see Midsummer Night's Dream at The Globe

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By *cottishVikingBearMan
over a year ago

N. London

I've always rather liked Titus Andronicus. If you found Monty Python's Black Knight funny, Titus is that same type of black humour with ridiculous levels of violence.

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By *oeofsussexMan
over a year ago

Eastbourne

Maybe Taming of the Shrew! Something a bit of dom and sub about it somehow! lol!

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

I wouldn't personally start with A Midsummer Night's Dream, it's quite difficult and hard to follow imo. (I don't know why they so often use this one for kids).

If you are 'dipping your toe in', I always recommend one of these (choose the story you fancy)..

• Julius Caesar

• Romeo and Juliet

• Comedy of Errors

• As You Like It

(..a fave of mine, very easy going it's like a comedic start to the later tragedies..)

• Macbeth

• Ot_ello

• King Lear?

(..or Hamlet if you feel up for it, but Lear's an easier ride imo. Both are grim obviously.)

Also easier;

• The Taming of the Shrew

• The Merchant of Venice

• Measure for Measure maybe too

(..his rudest in a way)

• Henry V

(..or the whole 'Henriad' even, From Richard II through all three Henry IV's. Henry V is the last of 5 plays! Don't include Henry VIII btw, it's very early and considered one of his 'bloody' juvenilia.)

Of course he's written about the same amount of good stuff again!

Did you know that apart from in Hamlet (where Ophelia had to die for Hamlet to become truly mad), *ALL* the female leads in Shakespeare are cleverer then the male leads?

I say this because Jo Brand (who I love) once said The Merchant of Venice had a clever woman in it for a change! Jo - they all do! Even The Taming of the Shrew. He gave the brains to the women.

Start with As You Like It and you will see.

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

Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Taming of the Shrew.

I love his sonnets as well. The wit, the wisdom the deepest insights into human nature captured in a simple phrases.

“When woes, which now seem woe, compared with the loss of thee shall not seen so”

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

From Henry v delivered by Brian Blessed in full plate armour

Adressing the dauphin

Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,

And any thing that may not misbecome

The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.

Thus says my king; an' if your father's highness

Do not, in grant of all demands at large,

Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,

He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,

That caves and womby vaultages of France

Shall chide your trespass and return your mock

In second accent of his ordnance.

In modern parlance fuck off and your gonna get your head kicked in later son

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

Bbc4 Macbeth with saoirse ronan as lady Macbeth,I love this shit

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over a year ago

Proper acting

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By *ycom72Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

Titus andronicus or king Lear

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By *ycom72Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

"I wouldn't personally start with A Midsummer Night's Dream, it's quite difficult and hard to follow imo. (I don't know why they so often use this one for kids).

If you are 'dipping your toe in', I always recommend one of these (choose the story you fancy)..

• Julius Caesar

• Romeo and Juliet

• Comedy of Errors

• As You Like It

(..a fave of mine, very easy going it's like a comedic start to the later tragedies..)

• Macbeth

• Ot_ello

• King Lear?

(..or Hamlet if you feel up for it, but Lear's an easier ride imo. Both are grim obviously.)

Also easier;

• The Taming of the Shrew

• The Merchant of Venice

• Measure for Measure maybe too

(..his rudest in a way)

• Henry V

Of course he's written about the same amount of good stuff again!

Did you know that apart from in Hamlet (where Ophelia had to die for Hamlet to become truly mad), *ALL* the female leads in Shakespeare are cleverer then the male leads?

I say this because Jo Brand (who I love) once said The Merchant of Venice had a clever woman in it for a change! Jo - they all do! Even The Taming of the Shrew. He gave the brains to the women.

Start with As You Like It and you will see.

I agree king Lear easier read but still grim

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

Twelfth Night is my fave and the opening lines are also my faves.

‘If music be the food of love, play on! Give me excess of it!’ And I believe it’s the Duke Orsino that says it?

Also love Macbeth and Lear was decent. Read Romeo and Juliet obvs as well and midsummer nights dream. All the east ones. Seen Ot_ello on stage at the globe but not read it. And I have bought Much ado about nothing but I’ve got two books to read before I tackle it. And I’m a slow reader.

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By *ilth N KinkCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

My fave is Much Ado About Nothing, face quote from As You Like It;

'though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty'!

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

Hubble bubble toil and trouble - said by the 3 Witches in Macbeth.

Is this a dagger i see before me - another quote from Macbeth

Is this the night of the long knives - Henry V

The night of the dark soul - Henry V

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

I don’t get much out of reading Shakespeare, but I love watching performances. I think my favourite so far was Alan Cumming’s one-man version of Macbeth. Powerful stuff, layering on themes of incarceration and mental disorder.

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By *otally BenettonCouple
over a year ago

shropshire

I joined a huge queue to watch a Shakespeare play once. So many people were really keen to see it but in all honesty it was much ado about nothing.

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By *lay 4 your plessureMan
over a year ago

Wigan

I love the musical Return to the forbidden planet, it's kind of based on the The tempest if that counts?

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By *oggoneMan
over a year ago

Derry

Ot_ello. Bob Hoskins was a wonderful scheming villainous Iago

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

Macbeth and we 3 witches: hubble, bubble toil and trouble x

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By *aggonerMan
over a year ago

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"Hubble bubble toil and trouble - said by the 3 Witches in Macbeth.

Is this a dagger i see before me - another quote from Macbeth

Is this the night of the long knives - Henry V

The night of the dark soul - Henry V

Sorry, but you need to revisit your Shakespeare.

It’s double double toil and trouble…

The night of the long knives come much later than Shakespeare.

The dark night of the soul wasn’t Shakespeare either.

Funny how we remember things we learned at school.

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

"Hubble bubble toil and trouble - said by the 3 Witches in Macbeth.

Is this a dagger i see before me - another quote from Macbeth

Is this the night of the long knives - Henry V

The night of the dark soul - Henry V

Sorry, but you need to revisit your Shakespeare.

It’s double double toil and trouble…

The night of the long knives come much later than Shakespeare.

The dark night of the soul wasn’t Shakespeare either.

Funny how we remember things we learned at school.

Probably got in wrong in my o level paper too!

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By *rego69Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

"Ot_ello. Bob Hoskins was a wonderful scheming villainous Iago"

Mark Rylance did it to a tee. Ian Mckellern in the black and white BBC version was chilling.

It’s why you can see the same play over again and there are bits you had completely missed.

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over a year ago

"I joined a huge queue to watch a Shakespeare play once. So many people were really keen to see it but in all honesty it was much ado about nothing."

I was in one that seemed to last forever. On the twelfth night I gave up and and went home.

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Taming of the shrew,,midsummer night's dream

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Macbeth

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

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This

if you want a proper visual treat watch the Macbeth film with Michael fassbender and Marion coutillard, mesmerising and stunning, if you have ever wondered what all the fuss is, watch that, storytelling of the highest order

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Hamlet and juluis Caesar. But I love the BBC version of king lear with Robert Lindsay as Edmund. Romeo and Juliet really annoys me.

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By *ilverjagMan
over a year ago

swansea

There's a few Shakespearean plays I like.

There's the one about the fella with the 3" penis. I believe that it's called, "Much ado about nothing"

Then there's the one about 6" willies called, "As you like it"

Not forgetting the one that features a 9" cock known as, "The taming of the shrew."

Another favourite is the one about what happened to the fella who hadn't had a wank for weeks and wet the bed. "A mid summer nights dream."

Also a good one is the one about the couple who went without sex for nearly a fortnight but soon made up for it called, "12th night"

Maybe William was shaking more than just his spear when he thought that lot up.

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