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Which of Shakespeare's plays have you read?

MercuryJones said:
I haven't read them for a looong time, but I would count among them Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Tempest, Macbeth.

Just standard school fare.

You might be interested in this preview for a new film adaptation of The Tempest. The FX look well over the top to me, but I'm charmed by the idea of Helen Mirren as Prospero. (Or Prospera?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdpQcFdfXdY
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Merc, that trailer looks great! Thanks for posting it.:=D:
Not really a fan of Russell Brand, but Helen Mirren makes up for it.;)
 
Not nearly enough - I do admit I find Shakespeare hard going sometimes. I've read Macbeth many times (my personal favourite), Julius Caesar, Othello, King Lear, Hamlet, The Tempest, and various acts and scenes from a few of the others.

-T.
 
I've seen a loooot more than I've read.

But I've read A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, and Comedy of Errors.
 
Romeo & Juliet

Macbeth

Hamlet

Julius Caesar

Titus Andronicus

The Merchant of Venice

Henry IV

King Lear

Henry V

The Tempest

Othello

Much Ado About Nothing

.....

I feel like I'm missing a couple. A few years ago I found a Collected Works of William Shakespeare for sale at the used campus bookstore for $5, so eventually I'll get through all of them, even the Sonnets.
 
A Midsummer Night's Dream and Antony and Cleopatra in high school.

They do a Shakespeare every year at the outdoor amphitheatre here in Cape Town which I used to attend regularly while at school - saw Twelth Night, Much Ado about Nothing, Love's Labours Lost, The Merchant of Venice and Two Gentlemen of Verona.

And then the comedic stage production, The Compleat Works of Shakespeare, which I've seen twice.

-d-
 
Also I've seen the film adaptation of Richard III with Ian MacKellan! And I forgot to mention that Romeo and Juliet and King Lear are like my second and third faves. Twelfth Night wasn't as funny as I thought it would be and MacBeth was okay.
 
I've read Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Henry the V. I found something fairly likeable about each one of them, with the glaring exception of Henry the V, which was the absolute worst thing I have ever read in the history of my existence. It was like torture for me. My boredom levels reached unprecedented levels while I was reading it, but I didn't have a choice as it was for school and I was a good student.
 
Unclean said:
How about this campy Vincent Price flick from the 70s?

Theatre of Blood

I loved it.
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Brilliant film. One of my all time favourites.

As far as Shakespeare goes, we had to study some of his plays at school and I remember A Midsummer Night's Dream in particular. In terms of reading the plays voluntarily from cover to cover though, the answer's none.

I have my late grandfather's copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, but I'm afraid to say I only ever use it for solving crosswords.
 
If I can include plays I have seen as well:

Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, and Titus Andronicus.
 
Unclean said:
Romeo & Juliet
Julius Caesar
Othello

think I also read Macbeth and Hamlet in high school, but it's been so long I don't remember

hated Shakespeare at the time
seemed like a colossal waste of time
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Same three for me.

We had to read Romeo and Juliet in Grade 9 English.
We had to read Julius Caesar in Grade 10 English.
We had to read Othello in English 102 in University.
 
Othello is my personal favorite. And then there's the brilliant film adaptation with Laurence Olivier in black-face.
 
laikaNYC said:
Othello is my personal favorite. And then there's the brilliant film adaptation with Laurence Olivier in black-face.
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I wish you could still do this nowadays. The local theatre company has a "race-blind" casting policy. In other words, they cast minorities in roles that are normally played by white people. But god forbid a white person or someone of the wrong race play Othello... ugh. They actually dropped a production of Hairspray last year because there weren't enough black people to fill in the chorus.

But back to the point: Othello is my favorite Tragedy, but my favorite comedy has to be A Comedy of Errors.
 
In school we studied Macbeth and The Merchant of Venice.

I didn't understand any of them.
 
Nearly all of them. :eek:

Mom is an English Teacher. Went to school at Northwestern.

So she read Shakespeare as bedtime stories to us. :eek:

Seriously. I was wounded as a child. And Mom refuses to pay for a therapist. :D
 
True story.

Back in the late 70's we were living far up in the mountains and we (me and my two brothers) were going to school in Denver...an hour and a half commute one way. Mom didn't like the radio...it didn't come in that great anyway...so I sat in the back seat and read out loud several Shakespeare plays.

I don't remember how many we got through, but after we did Macbeth, we got a treat and I got to read the 'Twisted Tales from Shakespeare' version of the same play next...kind of a satire version (and not a little 'dirty'). We laughed for days. Of course Mom had to make it into a lesson on how to understand satire, and to this day my little brother, despite his mental problems still can be hilariously funny with satire.

edit: 'Twisted' is apparently out of print right now, but it is a REALLY good read! The full title is 'Twisted tales from Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare's best-known plays are presented in a new light,: The old light having blown a fuse; With Introductions, Questions, Appendices, and Other Critical Apparatus Intended to Contribute to a clearer misunderstanding of the subject'
 
Hamlet (so many times I could have performed the play as a one man show)

Romeo & Juliet

Twelfth Night

As You Like It

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing
 
yummylongsword said:
I've seen a loooot more than I've read.
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Me too. I think I've seen or heard all but a few of the histories. I like them on stage, on radio, in movies, on TV, in costume, in modern dress, in adaptation, in parody, minimally staged, etc. If it's any kind of Shakespeare, I'll go see it.
 
I've read all of the tragedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew and All's Well That Ends Well.

Titus Andronicus is easily my favourite.
 
All of them.

If you're looking for the gay ones, they're Richard II and Troilus and Cressida.
 
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