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Post subject: Posted: September 28th, 2005, 12:01 am |
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Bits of Macbeth were interesting... I liked it in part, not the whole thing. (It was spoilt by my English teacher, who I really didn't like...) It was interesting also, because I've read a lot of books that refer to Macbeth, so reading it put all of them a bit more in context.
"For he is here in double trust, first as I am his kinsman, strong both against the deed, and second as his host, who should shut the door against the murderer, not bare the knife himself..." or something like that. I can't remember it all...
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Post subject: Posted: September 28th, 2005, 12:59 am |
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I watched the Leonardo DiCaprio version of Romeo and Juliet in class, as well as the the movie of Macbeth...they were all right. Macbeth had some interesting music in the back and I don't even know what the people that made Romeo and Juliet were thinking. 
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Post subject: Posted: September 30th, 2005, 2:07 am |
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Post subject: Posted: October 16th, 2006, 9:36 am |
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Joined: 04 June 2005 Posts: 426 Location: Denmark
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Ergh, I couldn't vote, because I haven't read any of them.. yet! I definitely will. Everyone should be forced to read Shakespeare since he is the greatest author of all time, isn't he?
I have only read 'Twelfth Night' which I really enjoyed.
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Post subject: Posted: October 16th, 2006, 6:22 pm |
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i can't believe i'm the only person's who's voted for macbeth. it's my second favourite play ever (after waiting for godot). i love the way it shows so many stages of macbeth's character and the way macbeth and lady macbeth switch roles half way through. i also love the way the end is left open - shakespeare never explains if or how the witches' prophecy about banquo's sons becoming king comes true. plus, if it wasn't for macbeth there would be no ents. i'd love to direct it - i have some wicked ideas.
i'm not a big fan of shakespearean comedy cuz i just don't think it's funny. i was in a production of midsummer night's dream and we decided to try and make it all out comedy, but most of the humour came from visual jokes we added (largely involving beards and an orlando bloom calendar) and flute majorly camping it up rather than the actual text.
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Post subject: Posted: October 17th, 2006, 12:06 am |
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Joined: 06 July 2005 Posts: 6345 Location: California Country:
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I just read Othello, and it was really good! It takes a while to understand everything about it, but it's so intriguing! And I also like Much ado about nothing. I love the pun on "nothing"- where it's pronounced "noting" which is about listening in on people. totally good play!
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Post subject: Posted: October 17th, 2006, 12:37 am |
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Wow... this is hard. In the end I had to vote for a Midsummer Night's Dream, but I have loved all of the Shakespeare I've read.
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Post subject: Posted: October 17th, 2006, 8:04 am |
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Joined: 20 August 2006 Posts: 1426 Location: United States
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I like both Midsummer nights dream and Much Ado about nothing, because I did Much Ado about Nothing, I was Beatrice. 8)
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Post subject: Posted: October 17th, 2006, 12:35 pm |
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We're reading Macbeth in class at the moment. I've already seen it performed on stage and I really like it.
But King Lear and Romeo & Juliet are wonderful as well. I've seen them both in theatre and I really loved the performance.
Btw: I also love Shakespeare's sonnets. Most of them are really beautiful...
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Post subject: Posted: October 27th, 2006, 3:29 am |
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Joined: 17 October 2006 Posts: 2763 Location: England
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I love all of them 
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Post subject: Posted: November 27th, 2006, 8:44 am |
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Joined: 05 June 2005 Posts: 197 Location: Finland
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Hamlet... Don't know why but it just is... I have seen it so that there were only four actors who acted it and the stage was quite little or so... It was quite impressing hw they did it so well ^^
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Post subject: Posted: November 27th, 2006, 7:13 pm |
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Joined: 02 October 2006 Posts: 2145 Location: the south, USA
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Well, I voted for Romeo and Juilet. Though I had to vote for it because it's the only one of this plays that I've finished reading so far.  I've started reading Hamlet and I like it so far. Though Romeo and Juilet is still my pick. it's just so sweet. (sigh)
Eve, I didn't know that they had a movie of Romeo and Juilet...with Leo in it?! I'm going to have to find that.
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Post subject: Posted: November 27th, 2006, 11:38 pm |
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I'm currently reading A Midsummer Night's Dream for school, but that's the only Shakespeare I've read so far and I love it!
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Post subject: Posted: December 2nd, 2006, 8:30 pm |
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I like the majority of Shakespeare that I've read. I've only read a few, but they were all good. My favorite was probably Julius Ceaser. When we read it in class, I was Cassius - so I have a bit of a soft spot for him. And I think I was the only one who was at all sympathetic towards the conspirators.
My least favorite has been Romeo and Juliet. It's beautifully written and all, but the storyline is so...I hate to say dumb, but that is what I'm thinking.
They meet each other. In the course of 5 minutes they decided that they are madly in love. In the course of 2 days they decide to get married. Then disaster! Romeo is banished. Did they ever think - well, just have Juliet run away with him! No, they go through the whole long "I can't live without you" thing. It wouldn't have been that hard for Juliet to climb down out of her window and run away with Romeo. So that play just annoys me. So did the Leonardo DiCaprio version of it that we had to watch. No offense to all you lovers of it.
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Post subject: Posted: December 8th, 2006, 11:12 am |
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My favourite play to read HAS to be Macbeth, but my favourite one to see live is probably A Midsummer Night's Dream. "This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard" (Hippolyta) 
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Post subject: Posted: December 8th, 2006, 11:48 pm |
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I have only heard of these 3
hamlet
romeo and juliet
macbeth
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