10-24-2004, 07:55 PM | #1 |
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William Shakespeare
Do any of your guys like Shakespeare? It's kind of hard not to. What plays have you read? Which is your favorite and why?
I've read (so far, but many more to come) Julius Caesar A Midsummer Night's Dream Twelfth Night Taming of the Shrew As You Like It Romeo and Juliet My favorites are definately Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream. I love the comedies, and I adore Sir Andrew and Sir Toby. I had two fish named Andrew and Toby, but I had to give them away because we moved. I'm actually not quite finished with Romeo and Juliet, which I have liked but not as much as the others. It's really rather frustrating. Anywho, I love Shakespeare, how about you?
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10-24-2004, 09:36 PM | #2 |
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Will is definitely the best - read over 20 of the plays so far, which would make a long list now. But I do believe the Bard of Avon thread is still extant for discussing that, although I don't think it's been posted in since August.
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10-25-2004, 07:20 AM | #3 |
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I haven't read any of his "popular" plays, but I love the ones I've read so far:
Henry VI (all three parts) Richard III Titus Andronicus The Comedy of Errors (currently reading it) My favorite has to be Richard III, there's this monologue that Richard says near the end of the play that is just BEAUTIFUL! |
10-25-2004, 07:21 AM | #4 |
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i've taken a few courses and read all of his plays... i have many favorites... but my top few are probably macbeth, othello, the tempest, measure for measure, twelfth night and as you like it
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10-25-2004, 09:30 AM | #5 |
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I ran a messagge board about Shakespeare some years ago with another mooter, Elanor. Well, it was not a great success (I think we never had more than five active users ) but it was a lot of fun! The board was on the ezboard platform and now it's completely lost because we didn't want to pay for it
Okay, my favourite plays are Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear... well, I could add a lot more
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10-25-2004, 09:36 AM | #6 | |
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*thinks we should start a shakespeare section*
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10-25-2004, 09:37 AM | #7 |
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I have not read 'Much Ado About Nothing' - but the movie version from several years back was HILARIOUS! How faithful was it to his script?
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10-25-2004, 11:48 AM | #9 |
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alright, I need to get my lazy buns over to a bookstore and buy a set of his works! In the meantime, I'll get some of those movies
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10-25-2004, 12:22 PM | #10 |
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A set of his works shouldn't be too hard to find... he is the most famous playwright ever
Branagh's versions are always very true to the text, although I personally thought his Hamlet dragged a bit. Actually, more than a bit. But I'll watch his Much Ado or Henry V anyday. Best Shakespeare movie I've seen though is Looking for Richard: it's Richard III (also coincidentally probably my favorite play) with Al Pacino as Richard, and a lot of other big actors in the other roles, interspersed with them discussing how they want to do the play. Sort of a making-of-Richard III documentary that includes a performance of the play.
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10-26-2004, 12:19 AM | #11 |
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I like
Much Ado About Nothing Taming of the Shrew Measure for Measure Midsummer's Night Dream Ok I like the comedies mostly. I just got a copy of Taming of the Shrew w/ John Cleese as Patrucio (sp?)....he was born for that role. The only Kenneth Brannagnah interpretation I have not liked was "Loves Labor Lost" I couldn't make it through the first half hour of that movie before turning it off.
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10-26-2004, 01:13 AM | #13 |
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Woah, deja vu, I just answered this on another board.
My favourite is A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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10-26-2004, 12:17 PM | #14 |
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I love Shakespeare, although it's been years since I read a play from start to finish. I tend to dip into his sonnets, or read a couple of scenes from his plays when I have an urge. I appreciate his work most when it's performed, I think. Last August I was lucky enough to see three plays at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada: Macbeth, Cymbeline and Henry VIII.
The movies are wonderful, too.... they recently aired Branagh's Henry V on PBS and I had a chance to see it again.... we few, we happy few, we band of brothers........ what an outstanding performance! Also liked Ian McKellen in Richard III, and strangely enough, Ethan Hawke in Hamlet, though I did prefer Branagh's version.... :blush: guess I just like any adaptation of the Bard's work.... |
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My current favourites are Measure for Measure, Hamlet and Richard III. I saw the latter along with As You Like It in Stratford last year, and loved them both. I also went to see All's Well That Ends Well in London in April - a rather odd play, but it was a great production. And let me speak up for the sonnets, which I adore and re-read often. I think we discussed this in the Bard of Avon thread, but does anyone have a favourite sonnet?
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10-26-2004, 07:03 PM | #16 |
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There was a big listing of favorite sonnets in Bard of Avon, but no reason they can't be mentioned here
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun... Ah. We get to read King Lear for my Drama class on Fools next week. It's going to be amazingsuperfantasticmaravilloso.
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10-26-2004, 07:14 PM | #17 |
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Measure for Measure and Hamlet, ive never been a great fan of Shakespeares works, i didnt mind Macbeth but i just cant get into them. Measure for Measure and Hamlet are big exceptions though, loved them both. I chose to write on Measure for Measure for my exam next thursday, it wont be good though
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woo hoo! Just got back from the bookstore with "The complete works of WS" in my hot little hands!
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excellent! What edition?
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10-27-2004, 12:01 AM | #20 |
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Just on the Shakespeare "movies", as we seem to be calling them, I would like to know what people thought of Baz Lurhmanns Romeo and Juliet, with Di Caprio and Danes in the title role.
I thought it was great, and I'm not even that much a fan of that particular play. I felt it helped to make shakespeare modern, and it went to prove that his work is indeed timeless, as the underlying themes within the play, love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, are just as constant now as they were in 1600. Plus I thought the little adaptions to modern from old were cool. Romeo walks past the scene of the initial brawl of Capulet and Montague, of act1 sc1, and asks Benvolio what happened here, as he see's the blood. In the movie, they are watching TV, and a news story shows the fight. And the use of guns as swords is also very cool. I think it's Old Montague who says to his wife: "give me my Long Sword", so he can go off and fight Old Capulet, but in the movie, he is reaching for an Assault rifle. I just think it was quite cleverly done. Anyway, I am more a fan of the histories, than the tradgedies or comedies. Henry the Fifth and Richard the Third being the best of these.
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