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Anonymous Sat Jun 22 20:05:27 2019 No.13344205 [Reply] [Original]

1. What do you think is Shakespeare's best play?

2. What is your favorite Shakespeare play?

I'm curious to see how everyone answers this, because I don't think the answers to the two questions need to be the same. As for me, I think either Hamlet or Lear is Shakespeare's most excellent play. But if you ask me to pick what I personally enjoy the most, it's going to be either Julius Caesar or A Midsummer Night's Dream.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 21:54:54 2019 No.13344683 File: 163 KB, 900x745, othello-and-desdemona-daniel-maclise.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1. King Lear 2. Othello or Hamlet

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:02:09 2019 No.13344725 >>13344205 Niggas in them times really rocked the ear bling huh

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:08:36 2019 No.13344762 1. King Lear is pure pathos, but Hamlet essentially creates its own universe and does a number of things Shakespeare himself it seems couldn't even replicate 2. Richard III. Very well constructed play and that tickles my autism

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:10:45 2019 No.13344773 >>13344683 Why do you strike me as a cuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:14:18 2019 No.13344794 >>13344205 1. Measure for Measure 2. Measure for Measure

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:17:28 2019 No.13344810 >>13344794 >Not Love's Labour's Lost for both

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:19:19 2019 No.13344825 I’ve just gotten around to Shakespeare, in Act 3 of Hamlet and he’s already surpassed Tolstoy for me as the GOAT. So excited to have his whole ouvre ahead of me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:22:24 2019 No.13344838 >>13344205 My favs are probably Henry iv, Henry vi, LLL, AWTEW, and 12th Night. Ask Harold Bloom what his best is, I really wouldn't care to figure that one out...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:23:38 2019 No.13344844 >>13344838 >Ask Harold Bloom what his best is It’s not a mystery, he’d say Hamlet. He’s said Hamlet is the best work of Western literature ever, not just for Shakespeare.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:34:38 2019 No.13344884 >>13344844 Yeah, true now that you mention it, but he also really loves Henry iv, esp. the character of Falstaff.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:37:57 2019 No.13344905 1. Hamlet 2. Macbeth

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:40:08 2019 No.13344913 >>13344825 This. I can't imagine being an Anglofag and being spoiled every Shakespeare play ever lmao reading him is simply delicious. Also, I haven't read Tolstoy so I can't say who's better, but Shakes def reaches very high highs.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:40:44 2019 No.13344916 >>13344810 pseud

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:45:06 2019 No.13344949 Can anyone suggest me the best edition of Shakespeare’s complete works? The Barnes and Noble collectible looks absolute ass and Amazon search yields shockingly little. I don’t need anything fancy, literally just a good solid volume of Shakespeare.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:49:37 2019 No.13344973 >>13344949 the Norton one

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:50:40 2019 No.13344978 >>13344949 or Oxford one, if you're going for something cheap, mate.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:53:59 2019 No.13345004 File: 55 KB, 423x600, nothing wrong with this.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:54:31 2019 No.13345009 >>13344973 >>13344978 Actually found this Pelican lookin ass edition, will probably go with it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:55:27 2019 No.13345016 >>13345004 >>13344683 This blacked propaganda piece disqualifies Shakespeare as the GOAT, among other things.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:55:34 2019 No.13345017 >>13344725 Shakespeare was a pirate

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:57:19 2019 No.13345025 File: 378 KB, 1280x1577, CD19042A-D5F6-494E-B3EB-0F052FFB5152.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13345017 Here’s another example, Walter Raleigh I am inspired

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:57:33 2019 No.13345027 File: 209 KB, 1200x627, kek.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13345016 it's just a play, whiteboi

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 22:58:47 2019 No.13345039 >>13345027 I'm not a whiteboi and that guy is a Sub-Saharan nigger. Othello is a Moor.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 23:00:06 2019 No.13345047 >>13345039 >that guy is a Sub-Saharan nigger. Othella is a Moor. Hardly matters. A nigger is a nigger and it’s just as reprehensible.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 23:01:43 2019 No.13345055 File: 189 KB, 1180x842, badass Othello.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13345039 The Moors were black, grow up bigot

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 23:04:27 2019 No.13345066 >>13345016 As unsavory as it is, nobody’s perfect. It doesn’t disqualify his literary ability.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 23:06:00 2019 No.13345078 >>13345055 Not necessarily. It's a vague term.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 23:06:30 2019 No.13345082 >>13345025 earring really gave lords that "dashing swashbuckler" edge that made the ladies go wild back in the day

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 23:08:26 2019 No.13345092 >>13344825 What impressed you so much in what you read in Hamlet? Also, what works have you read by Tolstoy?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 23:10:44 2019 No.13345110 >>13345092 He read the first three chapters from the P&V McDonald's translation of War and Peace and he thinks he knows Tolstoy.

Anonymous Sat Jun 22 23:15:39 2019 No.13345129

>>13345092
It’s funny because it was the same experience I had with Tolstoy, where I opened the book and the pages almost seemed to glow with what I was reading... It was about 15% of the way into Anna Karenina that I decided Tolstoy was the GOAT. That was three or four years ago. Then it happened again in Hamlet, where I was so smacked in the face by literary and storytelling ability beyond what I had ever read. It was very simply the power and innovation of the language and the compelling reality of the characters, especially Hamlet. The most salient moment for me was the end of Act 2–the evocative power of the Pyrrhus monologue which moves the actor to tears, and then Hamlet’s ensuing monologue that the actor reacts more to a fiction than he does to the reality of his father’s murder.
Of Tolstoy I’ve read Anna Karenina and his short stories. Haven’t read his Childhood trilogy. Got about a quarter of the way through War and Peace, probably more, lost interest and decided to come back to it at a later date—still haven’t.

Anonymous Sat Jun 22 23:40:11 2019 No.13345248
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>>13344205
1) Coriolanus. It's the ultimate pleb filter.
2) Julius Caesar. It's interesting how a British take on Roman affairs is so satisfying, it just works and arguably means more to our understanding of the relevant history than said history.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 22 23:47:36 2019 No.13345273 >>13344205 1. King Lear. Hamlet is child's play in comparison, though so is everything else. It doesn't demerit Hamlet's worth, tho, don't misunderstand me. 2. KL too, but I think Antony and Cleopatra is his second best play.

Anonymous Sat Jun 22 23:55:10 2019 No.13345304

1. I hate to be "that guy," but I have to say The Tempest; it says everything he wanted to say about the most important thing to him: writing.

2. My favorite is Henry IV Part 1. It includes all the best aspects of his histories & comedies (and Part 2 includes tragedy).

3. Bonus: I think that his most overlooked play is by far Timon of Athens. I don't know how many of you have read it, but it has aged supremely, even in comparison to Shakespeare's best. I think that it means more to us in late-stage capitalism than it did in the burgeoning days of global capital.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 01:23:28 2019 No.13345559 1. Hamlet is the goat piece of literature. 2. Hamlet. Ending gets me every time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 01:28:02 2019 No.13345569 File: 1.48 MB, 630x1903, best of Shakespeare.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 01:37:31 2019 No.13345592 >>13345559 >1. Hamlet is the goat piece of literature. The Divine Comedy shits all over Hamlet.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 03:32:38 2019 No.13345931 >>13344205 midsummer nights dream romeo and juliet

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 03:34:12 2019 No.13345938 >>13345592 Incorrect.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 03:43:28 2019 No.13345972 >>13345938 Objectively true.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 03:46:43 2019 No.13345987 >>13344205 >What do you think is Shakespeare's best play? I'm going to cheat and say The Henriad. That story as a whole is great. >What is your favorite Shakespeare play? Titus Andronicus. Fight Me

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 03:53:48 2019 No.13346014 >>13345987 I don't fight gentlemen with fine taste.

Anonymous Sun Jun 23 08:02:35 2019 No.13346627

>>13345004
Othello is based, both the play and the character. Iago might be my favorite Shakespeare character sans Shylock(most accurate representation of a Jew in literature) and Hamlet. Othello is a boss nigger and should be treated as such, take your phony racism to reddit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 13:02:22 2019 No.13347931 >>13345304 timon of athens, noted, ty

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 13:08:37 2019 No.13347971 >>13344205 The play where he reaches the highest of highs? Hamlet His most perfect play? Macbeth or Midsummer The play of his I most enjoy? Henry VI part 3

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 13:10:11 2019 No.13347982 >>13346627 Do shut the fuck up, deracinated brainlet.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 13:57:53 2019 No.13348216 1. Lear 2. Macbeth I don’t like his other plays, except maybe A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 13:58:49 2019 No.13348220 >nobody's mentioned Winter's Tale /lit/ what the fuck?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 14:33:47 2019 No.13348406 Henry V

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 14:46:51 2019 No.13348469 >>13348406 Btw, am i the only person whose favorite is this play?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 14:52:20 2019 No.13348495 >>13344205 What does best mean though? It could just mean most enjoyable to you which is likely what favorite would be. It could mean most influential. It could mean best written. People need to be more specific with the word best.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 18:00:18 2019 No.13349307 >>13348469 Henry V is awesome, I have the St. Crispin's Day Speech memorized. Hal in general is arguably Shakespeare's greatest character, he's up there with Falstaff and Hamlet.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 18:15:24 2019 No.13349383 >>13348495 Best means the most influential and best written. Favourite means the one you personally like the most or have a fondness for. Sometimes they overlap but there's definitely a difference.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 22:03:55 2019 No.13350680 >>13349383 Well, I asked because best has varying definitions. Thanks for clarifying your definition of it..

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 23 23:37:57 2019 No.13351066 >>13347982 Psued.

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