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what is your favourite shakespeare play?
hamlet 7%  7%  [ 2 ]
romeo and juliet 10%  10%  [ 3 ]
macbeth 28%  28%  [ 8 ]
midsummer night's dream 17%  17%  [ 5 ]
much ado about nothing 14%  14%  [ 4 ]
any other i didn't mention! 24%  24%  [ 7 ]
Total votes : 29
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PostPosted: September 14th, 2005, 9:59 pm 
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what is your favourite shakespeare play? i actually have two: my favourite comedy is a midsummer night's dream, and my favourite tragedy is definately king lear. most people don't think too often about king lear, but i think it's the best one! so poignant and heart-breaking. i feel more sympathy with the characters in that play.


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I've only read two of Shakespears plays: Julius Caesar and Hamlet. They weren't bad though I'd never have read them voluntarily. I wrote a long critical essay on Julius Caesar for a school assignment.

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I like Romeo and Juliet. :confused:
I know, it's probably what everyone voted for, but I didn't just vote for it because it was one of the most widely known and heard of, but because of it's ending...


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I actually like a few
Macbeth, ROmeo and JUliet, and As You Like IT...
The last one was quite amusing

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I've only read "Macbeth" and "Romeo and Juilet" and I honestly really liked both of them. I basically hated listening to them, studying them in class - but seeing them performed was great! :)

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I'm not a bit fan of the mans work, however I do like The Merchant Of Venice

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I really liked Julius Caeser! An interesting play. I read Brutus in class. :P

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I really liked Julius Caesar too. I also also enjoyed Much Ado about Nothing as I liked the humour in it and the fact that it had a happy ending - all of the other plays I've studied have been tragdies

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I like Midsummer's Night Dream, but I also like Macbeth. I am going to read The Taming of the Shrew eventually...

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~Shieldmaiden~ wrote:
I wrote a long critical essay on Julius Caesar for a school assignment.

So did I...I liked it, but it I wouldn't read it voluntary...

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oh! I forgot about A Midsummer Night's Dream. Our teacher managed to make that one fun!

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So did mine, in a enrichment class we acted out "modern versions" of either Midsummer's Night Dream or Romeo and Juilet I wanted to act out Midsummers Night Dream but the class wanted to play Romeo and Juilet. :( But it was still fun

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Hello :) . I liked Much Ado About Nothing. It was funny, suspenseful, and everyone got just what they deserved. I also liked Hamlet ~ very intense. Romeo and Juliet was good, but very sad. I wanted Romeo and Juliet to be together, not end so tragically as it did. Well, that's it.
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Much Ado About Nothing! :wave: Other than that I'm not a Shakespeare fan. I wouldn't read his plays voluntarily. Last year we did Romeo & Juliet in english, but honestly I didn't listen to it any of it and just sort of winged my homework - including an essay. Our teacher marked really easy and I just wrote a bunch of stuff worthy of Captain Obvious.

This year I'm doing Julius Caesar and it's a whole other story. I actually have to listen -gasp- and write thought-provoking stuff :blink:

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I liked Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Nights Dream. I thought Macbeth was okay, wasn't too crazy about it. Julius Caesar... :grr: I think I would have liked it, but I hated my teacher that year, so...

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hmm, not many people voted for macbeth...no one did actually. i admit it's not one of my favourites, it's kind of dark and grim, but that's sort of the appeal of it to me.


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