Shakespeare?

[Raistlin]

Tamin of the Shrew = 10 Things I Hate About You

Except 10 Things I hate About You sucked and had an entirely different point.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

She's All That is yet another iteration of Pygmalion, which is Shaw, not Shake.

[The Man]

Ah, I misremembered. Neither of them were actually very good films either. xD

[mooglebunni608]

I really don't like him cause i was forced to read A Midsummers Night Dream when i was 11... that sucked.

[Psydekick]

And they give you that crappy CD to sing along too

[*~Endless Night~*]

I never really got into Shakespeare. I can't stand the style in which he writes; really flowery speech, and all that. Plus, yeah, I hate that school forces his stuff on us. Maybe I'll give him another go after I'm doing with all that, and maybe I'll think differently. I'd like to appreciate him.

Yeah thats what I did too, after I'd left school I found out that I actually had a book with all his plays in so I picked a couple randomly then I ended up reading the whole thing and just skipping macbeth...

[rubah]

I don't care for his stuff much.

[Slade]

Hamlet and Othello were my favorites

[~SapphireStar~]

He, to me, was an excellent play write. I adore Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Nights Dream, etc. I didnt think I would get into his works when I was young, but when I read Romeo & Juliet when I was 13, I fell in love with his work

[Captain Maxx Power]

His play aren't particularly hard to understand, once you know how to read them. Like all plays it's not the source material that determines the quality of the work, it's who does it. I once saw a showing of Midsummer Night's Dream that had me in stitches. Done right that play can be seriously funny.

[Death Penalty]

The only play he did that didnt suck ass was Othello.

NUFF SAID

[Rase]

For me, it's incredibly hard to read a play. Shakespeare is no different, and while he is a great writer, I just have trouble reading any play, including his. I do like seeing his play's acted out though, considering it's by people who care.

[Psydekick]

What he said

[Heath]

King Lear and Macbeth are brilliant. I wasn't too keen on The Merchant of the Venice or Romeo & Juliet though. Definitely a talented writer. Not something I think I would've been tempted to pick up and read in my spare time and it wasn't until Macbeth (second play I read) that I thought he was anything special.

[Resha]

I love Shakespeare, most of all his comedies. My favourite play by him ever is The Taming of the Shrew; I never really loved Macbeth overly (I blame over-analysis in school!).

Reading Shakespeare, I like to look at the dramatic side of it as well as the literary side - I don't know, it seems to me that people too often consider his works to be a two-dimensional, on-paper kind of thing and forget that it has to be seen on stage. It's great on stage, and a lot easier to understand. His works are brilliant from an actor's POV too, and would really thrill and challenge a good actor.