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Mine has got to be "Much Ado". Second would probably be "Twelfth Night".

2007-09-04 17:33:03 · 22 answers · asked by mickeypammie 1 in Arts & Humanities Poetry

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Henry V. The Saint Crispin's day speech is as moving as anything I have ever heard.

Much Ado is my favorite comedy, and get ye a wife.

And as to the quote "the first thing we do is kill all the lawyers," from Henry VI is a a badge I where proudly as 'they' conspire to bring down the society and to win they must get rid of us good guys.

2007-09-04 17:47:17 · answer #1 · answered by Songbyrd JPA ✡ 7 · 1 0

every time i see a production of cymbeline i am stunned by how great it is, and it becomes my favourite shakespeare play for about a week or two even after i leave the theatre.

but much ado is also a very great play (it would have been so easy for it to turn out a tragedy), and twelfth night was the very first shakespeare play i fell in love with (the deputy head girl was feste. i was eleven and i had such a crush on her).

as a play for reading i think the tempest cannot be bettered, though most of the productions i have seen let it down in some way (though i saw rose english play a transgendered prospero once, and that was unforgettable).

and then romeo and juliet is by far the most popular of his pieces - i don't think i'd quarrel with anyone who thought that was the best.

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(incidentally it's good to see a shout for henry vi.2. i recently realised that richard iii becomes a serious candidate for 'best play' as long as you watch it after seeing all three parts of henry vi - which are more or less prequels to the story of richard - but probably not if you take it just on its own).

2007-09-04 23:27:09 · answer #2 · answered by synopsis 7 · 1 0

Some of it depends on who's producing it. Film directors continue to slaughter "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by trying to lace it with depth and meaning, effectively killing the humor. But it was quite possibly the FUNNIEST thing I've ever seen when I saw a stage version at Bob Jones University.

Hmm, if I had to just divorce the scripts from any noted productions, I'd say I like either "The Tempest" or "A Midsummer Night's Dream" best.

2007-09-04 17:40:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Midsummer Night's Dream

2007-09-04 17:37:28 · answer #4 · answered by Lean on Me 4 · 0 0

Richard III is such a great story. Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer and Hamlet are also favorites of mine.

2007-09-04 17:36:04 · answer #5 · answered by Bex13 4 · 0 0

Comedy: "Much Ado" or "Midsummer Night's Dream" or "Taming of the Shrew," depending on my attitude at the time.

Tragedy: "MacBeth" (I LOVE the characters in there), "Hamlet," Richard III.

History: Henry VI, part 2. Best Line: "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

2007-09-04 17:39:05 · answer #6 · answered by aboukir200 5 · 1 0

Much Ado is my all time favorite. It's so funny and silly, but grabs my heart and brings me to tears, too.

I generally prefer the comedies to the tragedies.

2007-09-04 17:41:47 · answer #7 · answered by RayeKaye 6 · 0 0

A mid night summers dream

2007-09-04 17:36:08 · answer #8 · answered by Doolin-Man 2 · 0 0

I like A Midsummer Night's Dream. It's so descriptive and magical.

2007-09-04 17:35:59 · answer #9 · answered by Cyn A 2 · 1 0

A Midsummar evening's Dream. I in basic terms like it, that is wonderful, and that i performed %. some years in the past at our college drama team. that is relaxing, that is love, that is sarcastic and it is so wonderful nicely written that it will ever be my standard play bay an author...

2016-10-18 00:04:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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