What is your favorite play by Shakespeare?

Question

And why is it your favorite?
I do mean play and not poem or sonnet. Mine is _The Merry Wives of Windsor_. I think it is really funny and I have found quite a few women that wish they could do such things to two- timing men.

Answer 1

My favorite Shakespeare play... well my favorite tragedy is either Othello or Romeo and Juliet. My favorite comedy is A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Othello because of the strings of jealosy, intrigue, decet between "friends" and the oh so tragic ending with most of the main characters dying.

Romeo and Juliet because of the joys and sorrows of young love, as well as all the intrigue, and the feud between the families that ends with the lovers' deaths.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. I so love Bottom... how Puck changes his head into that of a Donkey. And I also really enjoyed the confusion of the mixed up loves... how Puck changes the feelings, so both the men love (is it Helena?)

I guess, though, that my total favorite has to be Midsummer Night's Dream... cause I just need all the laughs!

but Uggh... I also love the Taming of the Shrew.

But I can't stand King Henry the Eighth... too dry.

Answer 2

this isn't an uncomplicated question. i love Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer evening's Dream. I actually have 2 fashionable characters, nicely more beneficial than that, yet i will get it right down to 2. Iago is so splendidly vile. He has no redeeming features even with. My different personality is sturdy Peter Quince from Dream fairly because I were given to play him a lengthy time period in the past. My fashionable speech is from Macbeth. "day after today and day after today and day after today creeps in this petty %." etc.

Answer 3

I have always had a real fondness for Hamlet. I think the themes it evokes (betrayal, lust, revenge, self-doubt) are all highly emotional and totally relevant even today. Some people Hamlet's agony over whether to kill Claudius boring, but I think nothing of the sort. Hamlet's turmoil makes this play one of the first psychologically driven plots. I think Shakespeare's sharp sense of humor and wit really shine through, too. Just look at the character of Polonius. Easily the most long-winded character in the play, yet it's he who says, "In brevity doth the heart of wit contain." Just consider him a walking irony. Hamlet's easily one of the most quoted plays in the English language, and for good reason. Shakespeare was completely on form here, his language was eloquent and he allowed the emotions of the characters to drive the story.

On the lighter side, I also love Henry IV Part I and II. Falstaff is easily one of Shakespeare's funniest and most recognizable characters. And young Prince Hal embodies every teenager struggling to rebel from their parents.

Answer 4

Its actually a tie between Much Ado About Nothing and Midsummers Night Dream

Answer 5

Julius Caesar

Answer 6

Romeo and Juliet because it's a classic and just fell in love with it as a child when I saw it at a eleven graders play. Nothing big or fancy, but beautiful.

Answer 7

My favorite is Macbeth. I was one of the witches in community theater/local college collaboration production. Fun part! Fun makeup! Double, double, toil and trouble...fire burn and cauldron bubble...

Answer 8

The 'Scottish Play', i.e. MacBeth. It is as serious as a heart attack, and so full of profound viewpoints and utterences.

The 'weird sisters' are so eerie and supernatural.

Answer 9

MacBeth

Answer 10

i like romeo and juliet, i think its beatuiful and i love stories about love and tragedy because i live in a tragedy.