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Which of Shakespeare's plays have you read?

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I studied three in various years of English class in school - Hamlet, King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice.

I have tried briefly to read some of the others, but I just can't understand them without guidance or translation.


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I think I have read these ones:
Romeo & Juliet
Macbeth
Much ado about nothing

and maybe a few more. I've also read some of his poems.

I hated every second of it.

edit: I beat Quasar by like two seconds :D
 
Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Richard III, Merry Wives of Windsor, and Merchant of Venice.

Not that I'm a scholar or an English Literature fan, but we adapted them for our Youth Theatre summer musicals - to massive acclaim. In fact one production has been done 3 times due to popular request and we're currently planning a 20th Anniversary reunion production of our first adaptation! The only ones of the above that didn't get staged was Romeo & Juliet, which we'd planned to be 'Romeo & Julian' and Macbeth, which was going to be 'Mac the Knife' and be a jazz/blues based musical.
 
I've read pretty much all of them, and for some reason, The Tempest sticks out as my favorite--and I'm not entirely sure why.
 
Romeo & Juliet
MacBeth
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Midsummer Night's dream
Othello
 
Hamlet, I knew it was a tragedy. However, when I finished and every main character was dead, I was a wee bit stunned.
 
I think I have read most of them. One that I haven't read is Cymbeline. My favorite is The Winter's Tale.
 
Well, I was an English major, so I read a lot of them... Romeo & Juliet and the Taming of the Shrew in high school, I remember; then Two Gentlemen of Verona, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Othello, Richard III, Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry V (I don't remember which part), The Tempest, MacBeth, Hamlet, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, and Titus Andronicus in college... probably more that I've forgotten.

I love reading Shakespeare, so long as it's annotated so I know what the hell we're all talking about. The humor (even in the tragedies and histories) is laugh-out-loud and the flow of language is almost orgasmic, the vividness of the action, the universality and accessibility of the characters, it's all so wonderful. I have a habit of seeing any movie based on a Shakespeare play that I can find.
 
Richard III

Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this son of York, and all the clouds that lowered about in the deep bosom of the ocean, buried.
 
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?)

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdpQcFdfXdY[/ame]
 
MercuryJones said:
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
Click to expand...

OMG.

I could kiss you for posting that trailer... I didn't even know a film adaptation was in the works!

Now I'm looking forward to December ever more between that and the George R.R. Martin HBO series.

:gogirl:(!):gogirl:
 
I like the idea of reading Shakespeare more than actually reading his works. I have a collection of his stuff, including the Portable Shakespeare, but I've only read A Midsummer Night's Dream once (and I don't believe I read it closely) a decade ago and thought of it as my favorite. I've attempted Hamlet several times, but never got far into it. However, I do love watching the film adaptions, particularly Kenneth Branagh's version.

Then, of course, there's the movie Shakespeare in Love....
 
Most of them .... A Midsummer Night's Dream is my favourite.
 
Othello, the Merchant of Venice and The Tempest. Those 3 are each great. Shakespeare is truly the leading figure of English Literature, a titan whom deserves the reverence he has.
 
A Midsummer Night's Dream. I've looked up passages an quotes from other plays but that's the one one I've read alway through.
 
OMG! I <3 Shakespeare! So far I've read: Romeo and Juliet (grade 9), MacBeth (grade 11), King Lear (grade 12), Othello (first year of uni), and Twelfth Night (third year of uni or last year). My fave was Othello and that trailer looks awesome! I wanna read the Tempest now too! I've read some of his sonnets too and I remember liking them as well, can't remember which ones I read. I've seen Taming of the Shrew at Bard on the Beach here in Vancouver in grade 12, they adapted it into a Western though.
 
All read in high school: Julius Caesar (Grade 9), Macbeth (Grade 10), Romeo & Juliet (Grade 11), Hamlet (Grade 12).

I really enjoyed both Macbeth and Hamlet, and was neither here nor there with Julius Caesar. Romeo & Juliet annoyed the crap out of me. Seemed like they did nothing but complain about their situation...then they killed themselves...

Just wasn't my cup o' tea I guess.
 
I've read Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Ohtello, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Coriolanus, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. I'm working on A Midsummer Night's Dream.

I've found that the more of his plays you read, the easier they are to understand. I almost don't need the guides that tell you word meanings anymore because now I can work the meaning out in context. I didn't think I'd get to that point, but it's possible.

My favorite play is Much Ado About Nothing. I love the general playfulness of the play.

My favorite sonnet is 29 because it deals with the power of love.

Here's a link to it and a modern translation: http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/sonnets/29.htm
 
I've read a majority of them. Read five or six in high school, and then had two classes in college where all we did was read his plays and poetry. Romeo and Juliet is still my favorite (partially because it was my first, partially because I'm a dorky romantic, and partially because of Leonard Whiting's naked ass). I loved teaching Othello.
 
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