Shakespeare

[TheLionPrince]

I honestly think Shakespeare lives up to his title: Greatest playwright of all time!

He combines so many themes into his tragedies such as guilt, power, love, personal destruction, greed, personal ambition, death, and etc. Not to mention, if there was no Shakespeare, then, The Lion King probably wouldn't have its emotionally compelling story it has now, in which TLK was inspired from.

So far, I've read:

Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Two graphic novels of Macbeth
A graphic novel of Hamlet
A graphic novel of A Midsummer's Night Dream

[StarlightLioness]

I love Shakepeare. I even opted to take a course on some of his works when I was in college. It was an awesome class.

My favorites are (in order):

Hamlet
Macbeth
King Lear

I've also read:

Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
The Merchant of Venice
Othello (liked this one a lot too)
Various sonnets

[Lauren]

I'm not into the whole Shakspeare thing, but I have read several of his works in school such as Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew. Now in English, I'm reading Romeo and Juliet.

[Regulus]

I never really read any Shakespeare, only the Cliffs Notes.

I'm sure, if I was living during that age I'd appreciate his works a lot more, but his lack of using modern English really frustrated me to the point where I couldn't really enjoy it.

Which makes me think, in 500 years from now, what will people think of the literature of today? Or our language in general?

[cleargreenwater]

I've always ended up enjoying the "Greatest Hits" I've had to read over the course school, but I'm content that the ones I read there are the most famous for a reason & am satisfied with the "Best Of" knowledge I have.

I wouldn't go out of my way to look up and read other works by him voluntarily, though. Althought one I hear about alot that I didn't get introduced to through school, "A Midsommer's Night Dream", I might eventually cave on someday since it's still kind of popular in stage performance. Eventually that curiousity will probably win out, but for now I'm good.

[TheWhistlerify]

I've read:
Hamlet
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
Richard II
Henry VIII
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Othello
King Lear

I've watched:
Hamlet
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
Othello
The Merchant of Venice
The Tempest
Richard II
Antony and Cleopatra.

I even have this giant fancy book as a proof of me being a huge fan
http://www.google.co.il/imgres?start=91 ... 80&bih=877

[Buffy]

I read Merchant of Venice last year. And this year I read Othello.
I must say, Merchant of Venice was easier to understand. Because I didn't really understand Othello until the end. And even then I didn't understand it fully! XD

[Woeler]

I had to read Mabeth for school. I nearly died because it was so boring.

Never again, just never.

[TheWhistlerify]

[quote="Sauda"]I love Shakesphere
My grandfather bought me the Complete Tales leatherbound book from Barnes and Noble as a New Years present.
I absolutely love it, personally my favorite stories are Julius Ceasar, Hamlet and Macbeth.[/quote]

I also have that edition of Shakespeare (I have like 12 more from that leatherbound series)

As for Shakespeare, I've read and watched many of his plays. I read and watched Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet (2 different film adaptions, one by Laurence Olivier and the other by Kenneth Branagh), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar.

[Dark Huntress]

I've read Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer's Night Dream, and I have yet to start highschool A Midsummer's Night's Dream was probably the one I found most entertaining. (My favorite Shakespeare movies are Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and Much Ado About Nothing with Keanu Reeves as Don John).