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Anonymous Fri Mar 8 12:32:21 2013 No.3540761 [Reply] [Original]

Tell me, /lit/.

>Your favourite Shakespeare play

>The Shakespeare play you think is most overrated

>The Shakespeare play you think is most underrated

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 12:34:21 2013 No.3540770 >favorite Macbeth. >overrated Hamlet...it's still great, though, obviously. >underrated Julius Caesar

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 12:34:21 2013 No.3540767 File: 39 KB, 617x475, winogrand_flip.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Favourite Hamlet >Overrated Antony and Cleopatra >Underrated Richard II

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 12:48:21 2013 No.3540813 >Favorite The Hams >Overrated Roman and Jules >Underrated Two Ricks

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 12:50:20 2013 No.3540826 What do you think of A Midsummer Night's Dream?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 12:51:20 2013 No.3540828 >>3540767 >Your favourite Shakespeare play Othello >The Shakespeare play you think is most overrated Hamlet >The Shakespeare play you think is most underrated King Lear

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 12:52:20 2013 No.3540831 >>3540828 Sorry, didn't mean to reply to that other post.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 12:52:20 2013 No.3540835 >>3540826 I think it's a fantastic comedy. It's one of his that you can't really appreciate until you see it acted out, some of em you can grasp without seeing but aMND's a blast live.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 12:53:20 2013 No.3540836 King Lear King Lear King Leer

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 13:02:20 2013 No.3540863 >>3540761 >Your favourite Shakespeare play Coriolanus >The Shakespeare play you think is most overrated Romeo & Juliet >The Shakespeare play you think is most underrated King Lear

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 13:04:20 2013 No.3540869 >The Tempest >Romeo & Juliet >The Tempest

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 13:13:20 2013 No.3540895 >favorite Othello >overrated Romeo and Juliet >underrated Antony and Cleopatra

Anonymous Fri Mar 8 13:30:20 2013 No.3540929
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>Your favourite Shakespeare play
King Lear
>The Shakespeare play you think is most overrated
Midsummer Night's Dream
>The Shakespeare play you think is most underrated
Titus Andronicus

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 13:53:20 2013 No.3540981 >implying Shakespeare even wrote a single play

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 14:00:21 2013 No.3540994 >>3540981 Are you a Christopher Marlowe-supporter?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 14:06:20 2013 No.3541004 >>3540981 Irrelevant here. There's an assortment of plays collected under the name of 'Shakespeare' and I'm asking you to give an opinion on them. You know what I'm referring to. It's just like if I asked for your 'favourite Romantic poem'.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 14:07:20 2013 No.3541008 File: 73 KB, 500x500, can u not.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3540981

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 14:16:20 2013 No.3541031 >Your favourite Shakespeare play Macbeth >The Shakespeare play you think is most overrated Romeo and Juliet >The Shakespeare play you think is most underrated Coriolanus or Timon of Athens

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 14:27:20 2013 No.3541059 >richard 3 >pick any of the comedies >troilus and cresida

Anonymous Fri Mar 8 14:33:20 2013 No.3541086

I haven't really read (or seen) enough of them to have a qualified opinion, but of the ones I do know:
>favourite
Othello. Macbeth is good but I don't think I've ever enjoyed a play as much as Othello.
>overrated
I thought Anthony and Cleopatra was rubbish. And Romeo and Juliet I suppose, but only because it's so famous it kind of hogs the limelight.
>underrated
Othello doesn't seem to get as much love as some of the others.

I plan to read Hamlet and King Lear at some point.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 14:35:20 2013 No.3541098 >Favourite: Macbeth. >Overrated: Romeo and Juliet. >Underrated: Julius Caesar

Anonymous Fri Mar 8 14:54:20 2013 No.3541132
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>All these hipsters hating on the greatest lover story ever told
Why do you do it /lit/, is it because it's popular and you just want to be contentious? Maybe because you were forced to study it at school?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 14:57:20 2013 No.3541139 >>3541132 >because you were forced to study it at school yes

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 14:59:20 2013 No.3541150 >>3541132 I think it's just because it's become almost the 'archetypical' love story. It's like the literature equivalent of being overplayed. I mean, Stairway to Heaven is a fucking great song, but if I have to hear it every again I think I'd puke.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 14:59:20 2013 No.3541149 >>3540761 favourite shakespeare: As You Like It / Macbeth can't really think of anything that's overrated, need to read more of his historical plays underrated: As You Like It / Hamlet

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 15:01:20 2013 No.3541152 King Lear Midsummer King Henry 4

>>	anonymoose Fri Mar 8 15:02:20 2013 No.3541154 Favorite: Henry IV Part One Overrated: Romeo and Juliet Underrated: Othello

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 15:18:21 2013 No.3541186 File: 11 KB, 220x220, Bob_Dylan_-_Tempest.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3540761 >tempest >hamlet >tempest

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 15:19:20 2013 No.3541191 >>3541186 Explain to me what you like about "The Tempest", please. I've read and seen almost all of Shakespeare's work, and "The Tempest" is, for me, easily one of his worst, most shoddy plays.

Anonymous Fri Mar 8 15:39:20 2013 No.3541244

>>3541191
It happens over the course of a day. The island is a great setting. It's got magic. Prospero is a great character. the opening sequence pulled me right in...
>Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any thing.
>Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your cabins: you do assist the storm.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 15:42:20 2013 No.3541250 >>3541191 >>3541244I It reminds me of doctor faustus too. and it was easy to read and understand. shakespeare is tough for me to digest, but not the tempest.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 15:43:20 2013 No.3541256 >Favourite The Merchant of Venice >Overrated King Lear >Underrated Coriolanus

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 15:54:20 2013 No.3541282 > fav Antony and Cleopatra > overrated Midsummer Night's Dream > underrated Coriolanus or Measure for Measure

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 15:56:20 2013 No.3541289 >>3541256 I was about to post these exact choices. Good job.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 15:57:20 2013 No.3541291 > underrated Cardenio. That's the only one I've read but no one talks about it.

>>	Kanga Fri Mar 8 16:09:21 2013 No.3541348 >>3541132 >Maybe because you were forced to study it at school? yes, it was 5 years before I ever looked at shakespeare again

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 16:14:20 2013 No.3541377 >>3541291 >That's the only one I've read but no one talks about it. I don't know about you but I've never ever seen anyone even mention Pericles (despite only having written at least half of it)

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 16:33:21 2013 No.3541446 >>3541256 >Overrated >King Lear hissssssssssssss OUT VILE JELLY

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 16:39:21 2013 No.3541470 >Hamlet >Romeo and Juliet >Macbeth

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 16:51:20 2013 No.3541522 >>3541446 >hissssssssssssss Booing and hissing needs to become a default reaction to bad posts.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 18:43:21 2013 No.3541945 What about the festive comedy Twelfth Night?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 18:47:21 2013 No.3541965 >favourite King Lear >most overrated Romeo and Juliet. Not that I think it's bad, but if I have to pick one... >most underrated Timon of Athens, maybe? Or Coriolanus.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 18:48:21 2013 No.3541967 >>3541945 I really like Twelfth Night. But I don't think it's overrated, or underrated, or my favourite, so it has no place in this thread for me.

Anonymous Fri Mar 8 18:50:20 2013 No.3541977

>>3541132

Can't speak for everyone else, but I'm not intending to hate on it. It's just a clear candidate for 'most overrated' because it is his most widely known and broadly popular work, but not his best. It's still miles better than anything by any of Shakespeare's contemporaries.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 19:02:20 2013 No.3542040 >>3541522 Boooooooo hhiisssssssss

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 8 19:06:20 2013 No.3542069 >Favourite Othello >Overrated Hamlet >Underrated Coriolanus

Anonymous Fri Mar 8 19:08:20 2013 No.3542089

Favorite:
Hamlet - What can I say, Hamlet is the most universal character I know of in Western literature

Overrated:
A Midsummer's Night Dream - He's written better comedies, the popularity of this one baffles me

Underrated:
Titus Andronicus - Sure it's lowbrow and ridiculously violent, but it's fuckin awesome.
Richard II also seems to be criminally neglected, it's a superb play.

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