What do you think is the best shakespeare comedy ?

Answer 1

The Taming of the Shrew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taming_of_the_Shrew

Answer 2

Impossible to single out any one; there are several that belong in the conversation, and they're all very different:

1) 12th Night
2) As You Like It
3) Much Ado About Nothing
4) A Midsummer Night's Dream

But, just to be different, I'll give you my dark horse in the category:

"Love's Labour's Lost"

This is Shakespeare's great UNDERRATED comedy. It's an early play, and, as a result, it feels a bit over-written (some of the Holofernes/Nathaniel stuff can be trimmed with no loss of dramatic effect, for example), but it contains no less than THREE of the funniest scenes Shakespeare -- or anybody else -- ever wrote. First the scene in which the four young lords hide from one another while reciting their forbidden love poems is a CLASSIC comedic set-up. Second, the scene where the lords masquerade as Russians to woo the ladies. And, finally, the play-within-a-play ("The Nine Worthies") is absolutely falling-down funny; better than the Pyramus/Thisbe business in "Midsummer," in my opinion.

Add to that the ultra-dark turn that the play takes at the conclusion of "The Nine Worthies," and you have an absolutely brilliant classical comedy...one that is all too infrequently performed anymore.

Answer 3

Much Ado About Nothing is Shakespeare's best comedy. It has clever wit and banter with some of his best lines written between the sparring characters of Beatrice and Benedick. I think it has great puns and hilarity which are sharp and it goes beyond comedy, to also encompass questions about honesty and love.

Answer 4

There are no good comedies by Shakespeare.

I'm serious. It's not like I haven't read or watched them, or at any rate tried to. The tragedies are a different kettle of verbs. Macbeth has got me excited, Lear has (sometimes) made me nod my head in a sympathetic isn't-the-world-awful kind of way, Hamlet has actually made me cry, but please let's not pretend that the comedies are funny anymore, 'cos they're really not. Interesting on a scholarly/intellectual level? Maybe, some of them. Worth the bother of actually producing? Absolutely not. A grim experience for all concerned.

Answer 5

Twelfth Night, by far !!!!! It is poetically creative, philosophically intriguing, and simply delightful. The quality of the play also stems from the repeated identity swappings, hence multiple perspective on a single event, e.g. when Lady Olivia falls in love with "Viola" (wanna solve the riddle? Read the play!)

Answer 6

I love A Midsummer Night's Dream. I read it in school and have seen lots of different adaptations. Directing a production of it was the cherry on the cake. Despite how many times I've experienced it, it still makes me laugh. I think it has so much potential to be done in different ways. :')

Answer 7

Twelfth Night is my favourite, though Much Ado About Nothing and Midsummer Night's Dream are great too.

Answer 8

I have always been partial to Twelfth Night myself.

But have you ever seen the movie Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead? Definitely the funniest thing ever connected to Shakespeare, go out and rent it now.

Answer 9

A guy turning into a donkey! A man dressed as a woman "Ninys tomb!!!"......... her falling in love with him then him falling out of love with her then her falling backin love with him all the while faries skipping around them....its gotta be A Mid Summer Nights Dream! :)

Answer 10

I wrote a script once, based on Shakespeare called 'Quentin Tarantino's Hamlet' and all who read it find it quite amusing.