Favorite play by Shakespeare?

[emelee]

Making a poll out of this one. Added Julius Caesar and Anthony & Cleopatra as history plays instead of tragedies.

 

I voted;

As you like it

Richard III

Hamlet

Edited December 13, 2012 by Kylie

[Echo]

I think that Richard IV, Richard V, and Richard VI should actually be Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI.

[Booknutt]

I voted for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" "MacBeth" and "Ant and Cleo" .... from magic to murder to romance.

I never realised I was so extreme before.

[Ruth]

I voted for A Midsummer Night's Dream (but was very torn between that and The Taming of the Shrew), Hamlet (with Othello a close second), and Coriolanus.

[lauraloves]

Hamlet

[chesilbeach]

Love's Labour's Lost seems to be missing from the poll

[emelee]

I think that Richard IV, Richard V, and Richard VI should actually be Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI.

 

Oh good lord..... Too many things running through my mind at the time.

Changed it.

Edited December 2, 2012 by emelee

[Echo]

I voted for A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV, and Macbeth.

[Chloe]

Romeo and Juliet

[Eleonora]

A Midsummer NIght's Dream is my favourite.. but I deeply love all Shakespeare's works.

[chesilbeach]

Love's Labour's Lost still seems to be missing from the poll

[Kylie]

Love's Labour's Lost still seems to be missing from the poll

 

I have edited the poll to add it in, except I couldn't work out how to add it to the Comedies section (perhaps there is a limit to the number of options), so I had to add it to Tragedies.

[emelee]

I have edited the poll to add it in, except I couldn't work out how to add it to the Comedies section (perhaps there is a limit to the number of options), so I had to add it to Tragedies.

 

Yes, only 10 per category. And that's why I couldn't add everything.

[Cumberbabe]

Without a doubt, Twelfth Night is the best play from Shakespeare's 'comedy' arsenal. It's the best crafted of them all, anyway.

 

I voted Henry V for history, because I loved the Kenneth Branagh adaptation of it! Though I did miss Falstaff quite a lot

 

And tragedy was hard, because it's my favourite of the Shakespearian genres. In the end I voted for Othello, purely because of Iago. But it was definitely a three way tie between Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. I never really cared much for Hamlet, Titus Andronicus was too early for me, and doesn't feel like Shakespeare, and Romeo and Juilet was only a tragedy (in my mind) because mercrutio died half way through.

[Booknutt]

Anyone gone off Shakespeare's Richard III due to recent findings?

 

Of course, a lot can be got away with as the play itself is fiction, but it added to the right royal stitch-up that was inflicted on him.   

[Peahen]

As a teenager I was obsessed with Hamlet, so it still has that special place in my heart. 

[risingdawn]

I can't vote as I haven't read many Shakespeare plays but I do believe that Macbeth is his greatest tragedy. I've only read on Hamlet and Macbeth and Macbeth is just pure Gothic tragedy. It's more supernatural and tyrannical but it was far more appealing that Hamlet. Though I did get into Hamlet after watching the Kenneth Branagh edition with Kate Winslet. But my opinion of Shakespeare isn't a good one. If I had a choice, I would never touch any of his works. The language and just the writing style of plays just don't appeal to me.