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what is your favourite shakespeare play?

mine is the tempest (:

>> No.2568124
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don't post 3s on lit

>> No.2568123

a midsummer night's dream
though ill be seeing king lear in the near future, so will probably overtake it.

>> No.2568125

Mine is Romeo and Juliet

>> No.2568129

Mine is Ulysses.

>> No.2568132

>>2568123
that's a shocking play! good obviously but extremely disturbing
>>2568124
what's '3s'? an acronym?
>>2568125
i don't really like that one, too predictable a choice
>>2568129
now that's not a shakespeare play

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>> No.2568138

>>2568120
OMG is dat rely yoo OP?? U r sexy as helllll babe

>> No.2568145

I like the one with the greedy jew and the angry anger. they confirmed all my opinions.

>> No.2568147

>>2568145
Also this one, only because I hate Jews as much as Shakespeare and because they made a movie about it.

>> No.2568153

>>2568145
*angry nigger

I can't even into racism properly

>> No.2568176

>>2568120

King Lear.

>> No.2568196

It used to be Macbeth just because I enjoyed it's themes better being more interested in cool war stuff as a dumb kid. But, now I'd have to say Hamlet as I think I better relate to his character his dilemma.

The Tempest has perhaps his most boring characters, but still an interesting story. It's more fantastical than most his plays. Midsummer's Night is just good ole' fun. I can't even properly comment on Romeo and Juliet anymore it's become so saturated. I won't comment on stormfags and I can see myself leaning more toward King Lear in my later years.

>> No.2568205

Titus Andronicus

>> No.2568211

>>2568196
Prospero is a brilliant character.

He is at once incredibly dignified and pathetically manipulative, at once humble and conceited, a man who has lost everything but realises that the bigger thing to do is to forgive, a man who has tremendous capacities for both love and hatred. We love him for his learning and eloquence but condemn him for the negligence he shows his dukedom and his officiousness. Hardly 'boring'.

>> No.2568226

>>2568211
For cereal? Prospero is exactly who I was referring to as a boring, simplistic character.
> at once humble and conceited
What? No. He's completely conceited and believes he's allowed to behave the way he does because he is so powerful.
>a man who has lost everything but realises that the bigger thing to do is to forgive
Not really. That's a forced ending that's not built up in the play at all. The only reason the one guy gets to live is because of his daughter.

My point is that we know exactly what his problem, how to fix it, and everything at the beginning of the play. He gives big, boring robust speeches that have little to no depth or complexity. He's a WYSIWYG character. If you think his all powerful punisher role is cool, that's fine. He's just not a very complex character in comparison to Shakespeare's other works.

>> No.2568241

Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure. But really Hamlet, which isn't even worth saying...

>> No.2568255

>>2568241
Twelfth Night really was one of his more interesting plays.

>> No.2568302

Caesar by a wide, wide margin

>> No.2568311

>>2568120
Hamlet
dem monologues

>> No.2568327

Henry IV 1-2 and Much Ado for pleasure.
Hamlet for pondering.
Othello if I can get a good live performance
>that claustrophobia

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What did everyone think?

>> No.2568354

>>2568205
His worst.

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Hamlet is master-tier literature

>> No.2568378

I too prefer The Tempest

>> No.2568393

Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth aside

Antony and Cleopatra (amazing!)
Henry IV
As You Like It
Measure for Measure

Warming up to Coriolanus.

>> No.2568453

>>2568393
Antony and Cleopatra is a GREAT shout.

'The barge she sat on' alone is worth anyone's time.

>> No.2568464

King Lear

>> No.2568465

King Lear.

Caesar in a close second as I'm a bit of a Romanophile.

>> No.2568485

>>2568226
>He gives big, boring robust speeches that have little to no depth or complexity
I direct your attention to 'Ye elves of hills...'. Triumph, awe, self-effacement, steely resolve, all in one electrifying speech. Makes for a great comparison with the final speech of Doctor Faustus too.

I think there's subtlety/'complexity' in the way how, despite his immense learning, dignity, and gravitas, he is a total control freak and incredibly petty. He likes to dramatise himself as this fallen 'prince of power', the 'wronged Duke of Milan' who has suffered a great injustice, but in reality he was a probably negligent duke whose usurping brother may well have been doing his people a service. When Miranda asks why his brother didn't have them killed his argument that it was because the people 'loved' him sounds hilariously self-deceptive.

But the play's also great and interesting for other reasons. Auden said it was Shakespeare's own 'ars poetica' and I kind of agree: there's the celebrated speech about the 'cloud-capp'd towers' and so on but throughout the whole thing the illusory nature of the isle and the commentary on art and life is really quite charming.

Then there are the various odd digressions like Gonzalo's utopia and the way it is shot down, the role of music in the play (not only in Caliban's celebrated speech but also obviously Ariel's songs and Prospero's masque), and so on.

>> No.2568632

>>2568485
this
tempest is best

>> No.2568778

>>2568354
Erm, I think you misspelled *best. I also make that mistake, sometimes.

>> No.2570165

>>2568778
i hear titus andronicus is an unsubtle bloodbath

>> No.2570169

temp temper tempest

>> No.2570181

>>2570169
mirror mirror on the wall who's the tempest of them all

>> No.2570190

>>2570165
But if it's a florid bloodbath I really want to read it--

Can anyone tell me why they liked/disliked Titus Andronicus?
It's on my list of plays to read soon, simply because I like the band Titus Andronicus so much

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>>2570181
mir mirror mirrest
That's quite a nice one, since mir means peace, world or commune.
commune communer communest

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>>2568120
So you say that "The Tempest" is your favorite Shakespeare play?

Silly Anon, that's not how you spell "Pinkie Pie"!

>> No.2570198

>>2570192
now i know that's not a shakespeare

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>>2570198
Did someone say huge orson welles