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It's boring, repetitive, and nobody can read it.
I myself have only read Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Read them in high school and they just stook with me. Specially R&J, so tragic, yet moving.
I haven't read much Shakespeare, but I liked McBeth when I read it.
yes, King Lear is great. What the old man doesn't know is so amazing. He treats everyone who loves him like crap, and he treats everyone who hates him like gold. the scene in the old shed in the rain is the best.
The only Shakespeare work that remotely interested me was Macbeth.
The Tempest.
I have a particular fondness for Macbeth since that was the very first introduction I had to Shakespeare back in the 4th grade. We put on a play and I was one of the three witches. :p
I really enjoyed King Lear too. I haven't read much of the comedies that Shakespeare has done but I'd like to.
Hamlet. I love his quick wit and tormented brilliant mind.
I wrote about Macbeth on the AP English test this year.
Julius Caesar was an enjoyable read (apart from all the dying).
I watched the movie of Othello (with Morpheus (or Laurence Fishburne.) as Othello), but have yet to read it. Iago is a bitch.
i saw that version of Othello i kept wondering when he was gona offer Iago the blue pill or the red pill :p :choc:
"Kill thy physician, retian thy illnesses fee lear!"
I love king lear, probably one of Shakesphere's best. And I absoloutely love the character of kent. He just tells EVERYONE off for the first half. My favorite scene is where oswald says he didn't kill kent when kent was pounding him with the hilt of his sword because kent is an older man, "this fellow who I did so spare by his grey beard" and kent knocks out the two guards holding him back and asks Gloucsters son (I forget his name right now) for permission to resume beating the crap out of oswald. I always laugh at that scene, and the preceeding scene where kent just cusses oswald up and down ending with the dis "... and the sole heir of all the qualities of a mongrel bitch. One whom I will beat into calamorous whining if thou deniest the least syllable of thine addition." is also pretty amusing.
Boring and repetitive, I think not.
"What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties. In form and moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so."
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
War, love, or philosophy, shakeshpere had the lyrics.
Gloucester's son is Edmund. Edgar is also his son, but I think Edmund is the one in that scene.
I don't really have a favorite. I've read Julius Ceasar, Romeo & Juliet, and Hamlet, and they were all kind of so so. Maybe I should read Macbeth and Lear. It might just be his style of writing for me.
Hmmm, It's been a while But I remember it being one of the lords that one of Lears daughters was seeing at the time. Edmund was the schemer while Edgar was the one who ran away for fear of his life when Edmund tricked him and Gloucster into feuding. I'll have to re-read the play.Quote:
Originally Posted by eestlinc
I enjoyed 'Hamlet', 'Macbeth' and 'Othello'.
Romeo and Juliet. I especially enjoy watching the film version with Claire Danes and Leo DiCaprio. The older version just makes me laugh at the end.
My fave by far is Hamlet. Its just so twisted and sexual. How can you not relate to someone as messed up as that?
i love King Lear because that old man is a wise ruler but then slowly become idle...just like Gloucester (believe too much in astrological sign)...