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Which is your favourite Shakespeare play?


Hamlet
  18% (9)
Henry V
  4% (2)
Julius Caesar
  4% (2)
King Lear
  4% (2)
Macbeth
  29% (14)
The Merchant of Venice
  6% (3)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
  12% (6)
Othello
  6% (3)
Romeo and Juliet
  8% (4)
Much Ado About Nothing
  6% (3)


Total Votes : 48
(last vote on : 31/8/2009 4:58:47 PM)
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Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 1/2/2008 5:56:49 PM   
Southall Sissoko

 

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 Just a poll to find out which of the Bard's works is number one amongst the Empire faithful. Enjoy!
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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 1/2/2008 8:33:44 PM   
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 My personal favourite is A Midsummer Night's Dream, followed closely by Romeo & Juliet and Othello.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 1/2/2008 8:40:14 PM   
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 Ooooh that's a tough one.

I went for Romeo & Juliet in the end, although A Midsummer's Night Dream was a very close second.  His poetry in those plays is sublime.


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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 1/2/2008 10:52:48 PM   
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 It was a toss up between The Tempest - which I like as I've been in it twice (school productions, once as a sprite, and second as Caliban  ) and studied it as well - and King Lear, which I think is just perfect. King Lear won.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 1/2/2008 11:06:04 PM   
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 The Merchant of Venice for me.  I've always loved Portia, one of Shakespeare's best characters imo.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 1/2/2008 11:26:25 PM   
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 I haven't read all of the above but Henry V is pretty damn good!

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 2/2/2008 6:32:07 AM   
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 You didn't include my favourite, Much Ado About Nothing, so I didn't vote.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 2/2/2008 11:25:58 PM   
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Macbeth - hands down - though im gona read hamlet - and a midsummer nights dream seems to be getting some praise here so i might read that too

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 3/2/2008 12:04:23 AM   
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 I was torn between Macbeth and Hamlet, but went for Macbeth as I love the character of Lady Macbeth. She's so much more interesting than her husband.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 3/2/2008 12:10:27 AM   
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 I went for Macbeth as it was the Shakespeare play I ever experienced and it's always captured my imagination.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 3/2/2008 2:29:22 PM   
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 Hamlet. It's one of the finest tragedies ever- an incredibly engaging story, with several of the Bard's finest passages.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 3/2/2008 2:45:00 PM   
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 I love so many but opted for Othello. I studied it many years ago for my A-level English and so really got to learn about all the themes and stuff. Very intense, emotional stuff, and I thought it was years ahead of its time.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 3/2/2008 3:14:24 PM   
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 what about much ado about nothing, loves labour lost, the taming of the shrew?




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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 4/2/2008 8:26:13 PM   
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I went for Midsummer Night's Dream, mainly cause Much Ado About Nothing wasn't up there.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 5/2/2008 8:35:09 PM   
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I chose Macbeth, studied it at school and really enjoyed it

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 5/2/2008 10:26:37 PM   
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Another vote for Much Ado About Nothing here - I recently saw the version at the National, with Zoe Wannamaker, and it was superb. I'd never read the play so went in  fresh.

Laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes - which is rare for one of Shakespeare's comedies!

Also love King Lear - studied it at A level.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 6/2/2008 2:13:22 PM   
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 A Midsummers Night Dream for me, although Macbeth was a close second in front of Romeo and Juliet.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 6/2/2008 10:20:10 PM   
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I voted for 'Julius Caesar', as I think the political themes are so timeless, but I've got a soft spot for 'Twelfth Night' ever since I studied it at school.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 8/2/2008 11:24:09 PM   
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'The Tempest' - and it's not up there.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 9/2/2008 2:32:17 PM   
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I'd probably say Measure for Measure but I am very fond of Much Ado About Nothing, so that got my vote.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 9/2/2008 3:16:51 PM   
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I still love MacBeth as it was my first ever Shakespearian play. Managed to see Patrick Stewart perform the role in London before Christmas. He was superb.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 11/2/2008 12:15:35 PM   
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Went for Hamlet although I almost went for Midsummer Nights Dream.  Hamlet just edged it though as it's such a great tragedy and so much of it stuck with me after seeing it. 

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 27/2/2008 10:57:43 PM   
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 I've always had a soft spot for Romeo & Juliet-personally Juliet is one of Shakespeare's best and strongest chracters. Then there's Macbeth and Othello (was in the former as the Porter in a production so I guess that had an effect and I'm studying Othello anyway...), which are both great. 

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 10/3/2008 1:42:34 AM   
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Very close call between Hamlet and Othello. Went with Hamlet as its my dream role.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 10/3/2008 9:53:13 AM   
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 Macbeth, closely followed by a Midsummer Nights Dream.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 20/3/2008 5:43:19 PM   
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 I was torn between Macbeth and Merchant of Venice. I studied them in school, so I'm familiar with them most. I think on a scale of grandeur, Macbeth wins, but MOV is a bit funnier and slightly more entertaining. Can't really decide. Everything is great

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 21/3/2008 1:29:36 PM   
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 Much Ado About Nothing, followed by A Midsummer Nights Dream and then Hamlet.

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 3/5/2008 8:40:50 PM   
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The endlessly quotable and magnificent - MACBETH!!!! must have read/watched/ listened to it 100's of times. Love it!

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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 3/5/2008 11:35:21 PM   
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 I must admit I have not seen all of those plays. but I have seen about 7 of his plays and, although this will probably get me shot, I can only honestly say I enjoyed one. And That was a Midsummer Nights Dream. Which I thought was a marvelous play. the others I have seen really never did it for me, In some of them, most notably the Tempest, I just quite frankly was bored. He's just not my cup of tea

However, Anyone who is a fan of the bard, or isn't.. it really doesn't matter , should read Bill Bryson's book called Shakespeare, as it is absolutally fascinating for fans and non fans alike. Much more enjoyable than the plays themselves


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RE: Which is your favourite Shakespeare play? - 4/5/2008 8:49:15 AM   
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 The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of Titus Andronicus.

I adore Shakespeare.

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