2006-09-08 22:50:22 · 19 answers · asked by Princess 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
First, let me mumble something about how hard it is to pick one mumble mumble mumble.
And then let me pick.
MACBETH.
Besides the power of the story, I dig that our principal characters are the villians; I like how in a story that seems determined by destiny, we actually find Macbeth making the choices that destroy him; and, very important, this is the tightest and shortest of the major plays. (There are particularly textual reasons for this but we don't have to be hip to them to get the play.)
I also like the Japanese movie version THRONE OF BLOOD.
2006-09-08 22:56:52 · answer #1 · answered by o41655 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is Merchant of Venice. Portia is the best. Recently I read somewhere that it was a sissy play and the real hero should have been Shylock, that Antonio was gay, Bassanio was the boyfriend. But it is great.
Taming of the Shrew, and A Comedy of Errors is great too.
Does Shakespeare in Love rate as a play?
2006-09-09 06:30:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I also find it difficult to pick just one play as my favorite. I love "The Taming of the Shrew", just because of the sparring done between Kate and Petruchio, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is also a favorite because I saw it performed at the Globe Theater in Conn. There are so many plays! After all "The play's the thing!"
2006-09-09 06:09:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hamlet is the only one I've enjoyed so far, probably because we spent a lot of creative energy on it in school. I learned and recited the famous "To be or not to be" passage. And we made a 10 minute "modern" version on video. I don't like Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth, probably because it was more difficult for me to understand.
2006-09-09 14:13:16 · answer #4 · answered by hisprincess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comedy - "Much Ado About Nothing" - lots of sarcasm, and humor that has you rolling your eyes because you can see what's going on while the characters 'can't'.
Tragedy - "King Lear" - a lot of common-day issues are still prevalent in this play, when you get down to it -- family, business, deceit, confusion, love... and on and on and on.
If you really want to enjoy shakespeare plays without reading them, look for any of the Kenneth Branagh versions -- they are true to the story, and just really awesome.
http://smithsonianassociates.org/programs/branagh/branagh.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/filmgrph/kenneth_branagh.htm
2006-09-09 08:39:28 · answer #5 · answered by frzzld_1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The master's works are all great and wonderful treasures of language and story-telling. Read The Merchant of Venice and Romeo & Juliet and wish I could read Hamlet but alas it is not to be!
2006-09-09 05:58:42 · answer #6 · answered by fistfull-of-$ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mcbeth. Beacuse of the authority a woman named Lady Mcbeth shows in the play.
2006-09-09 05:56:50 · answer #7 · answered by Caesar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a fan of A Midsummer Night's Dream. It seems like goofy gibberish, but then if you start looking at how it portrays the relationship between art and dream and reality, there's amazing complexity. (Not to mention a whole lot of funny stuff.)
2006-09-09 09:05:07 · answer #8 · answered by Jack 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Twelfth Night-because i love the whole idea with the mismatched identities and its about disguises and Viola has to pretend to be Sebastian and then Sebastian doesn't realize she's in Illyria and it's so cool that Viola ends up with Duke who she fell in love with and it's such a typical romantic comedy.
2006-09-09 06:15:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romeo and Juliet. I like romantic tragedy in a play. You can appreciate how good the actor and actress who will play the role. coz there is so much intense.
2006-09-09 05:55:05 · answer #10 · answered by hanna 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋