Survey: shakespeare

[Masamune·1600]

-Age: 20

-Country: United States

-Do you enjoy shakespeare stories (as novels) and/or productions: yes, although it's not totally accurate to speak of them as novels

-On a scale of 1 to 5, how well can you understand Shakespeare plays (1 being well, 5 having great difficulty): 1

-Have you ever read a shakespeare story before: yes

-If so which: let's see...As You Like It, Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, Two Noble Kinsmen, and Henry the Eighth.

-Have you ever seen a Shakespeare play production: Sadly, not live, but I'll probably see one or two this year.

-If so which: ---

-Have you ever studied Romeo and Juliet as an english novel: yes, although not for quite some time

If so;
-List the most common themes found in the story: love, hate, misunderstanding/miscommunication, inconsistency, chance/accident

-What do you consider were to have been the greatest influencing factor in the outcomes of the story: the characters, sheer chance