Lit ► Shakespeare

[Pelafina]

Up until this year, I was alright with his plays, but never really appreciated them. This year though, after reading King Lear and part of The Tempest, I'm really beginning to enjoy his work.

Julius Ceaser and King Lear have been my favorites so far.


Anyone else with a semi-intelligent opinion of his work?

 

[Oriax]

I personally love Shakespeare myself ^^
I liked him all through shcool and now in college even though my friends don't *sigh*
I think my favourite of his plays are Othello and Romeo and Juliet, I also love his sonnets too
Hopefully sometime this year I'm going to Stratford-upon-Avon to visit his home and maybe learn some more stuff about him



^ I think all of that made me sound like an uuber nerd ^_^;;

 

[Xiao]

I LOVE Hamlet. It's definitely my favorite of his plays. Got to see it in Stratford (Canada). It was amazing. They're production of Macbeth was good too.

 

[Oriax]

Has anyone seen the "Reduced Shakespeare Company"?? Look it up on youtube, it's Shakespeares plays, shortened and a bit comical

 

[Pelafina]

I hear both Hamlet and Othello are two of his best, and I'm definitely considering picking them up at some point.

Romeo and Juliet is over-hyped, but still not too bad. Some of the language in that one is beautiful.

 

[Oriax]

Othello is great - we are studying it in English at the moment - however, I'd reccomend reading the play before watching one of the many films xD

 

[Pelafina]

Apart from Romeo + Juliet and one adaption of Julius Ceaser, I've never really cared for any of the films.

I'm much more of a book person.

 

[Oriax]

Fair enough - me too to be honest - especially with Shakespeare, but we had to watch them to see how much they differed from the play *sigh* some parts ruined the book :/

 

[Square Ninja]

fuck romeo and juliet

it's all about macbeth and julius ceasar

hamlet is good if you can get past how whiny the dude is

othello is worth it if only for iago

 

[Sharikka]

I've never really read any of Shakespeare besides Romeo and Juliet, but I did enjoy it very much. Once I got past the language that was used, I realized how remarkable his works are. Shakespeare was definitely a genius.

I really do enjoy his sonnets though. I hate how there are a bunch of people who think that he was bi just because some of his love poems were addressed to men. I mean, that was how the people of the time would ask the nobles for money. Just a mini rant.

I want to really read more, maybe Hamlet? I don't know, heh. >.<

 

[Shinra]

Twelvth night or something... either that or Macbeth and Julius Caesar

 

[AmuletSpade]

I enjoyed a midsummer's night dream I'm reading Hamlet and King Lear now

 

[Pelafina]

I want to really read more, maybe Hamlet? I don't know, heh. >.<

Read Julius Caesar. Not only is it an exceptional play, but it's the right time of the year for it - the Ides of March is Monday.

 

[AmuletSpade]

I'm going to check that book out next

 

[Mallorytheace]

I have always been a huge fan of his tragedy's. Titus and Macbeth are my faves.

 

[Enchanted Rose]

Anyone else with a semi-intelligent opinion of his work?

So what he really meant to say was this:

Is all the world a stage for you bitches and hoes,
Do you like gettin jiggy with a mile of prose,
Does iambic pentameter make you 'git crunk',
Would you rather quote Lear than get hyphy and drunk,
Is the question to open ya books, or to turn on ya swagger,
Pop it like a glock, or is that a dagger..?!

With yo friends, romans, countrymen lowriding 'round the ghetto,
Are yo gonna blaze everyday, live long and Prosper-o,
Are you at the Globe, wishing The King's Men was yo crew,
Your kingdom for a whore? (Now here's much ado!)
Forsooth! The play's the thing-izzle
og William is the shizzle.

...lol yeah, it's like 2am, sorry.
Yeah, the bard is quite cool. I was at his old school the other day, hanging with some Shakespeare academics. I'll say more stuff when I'm not .. almost collapsing from hunger/tiredness/insanity.

 

[Pelafina]

So what he really meant to say was this:

Is all the world a stage for you bitches and hoes,
Do you like gettin jiggy with a mile of prose,
Does iambic pentameter make you 'git crunk',
Would you rather watch Lear than get hyphy and drunk,
Is the question to open ya books, or to turn on ya swagger,
Bang some fly bitches, or to cry 'is this a dagger'.

With yo friends, romans, countrymen lowriding 'round the ghetto,
Are yo gonna blaze everyday, live long and Prosper-o,
Are you and yo crew just keepin it real at the Globe,
AK-47 on all dem haters; cussing all dem bibliophobe(s),
Forsooth! The play's the thing-izzle
og William is the shizzle.

...lol yeah, it's like 2am, sorry.
Yeah, the bard is quite cool. I was at his old school the other day, hanging with some Shakespeare academics. I'll say more stuff when I'm not .. almost collapsing from hunger/tiredness/insanity.

I nominate this as the best post of 2010.

 

[Square Ninja]

I've never really read any of Shakespeare besides Romeo and Juliet, but I did enjoy it very much. Once I got past the language that was used, I realized how remarkable his works are. Shakespeare was definitely a genius.

lol wut

The language he used is part of what makes his works so good.

 

[Mythological Omega]

Macbeth and Julius Caesar were both very good.

Romeo & Juliet, albeit well written, was incredibly overhyped.

 

[UsagiOkami]

I have read Romeo and Juliet and liked it a lot. Currently I am reading Troilus and Cressid and trying to make it through it, I'm not used to having to puzzle out what someone is saying and my siblings running around shouting isn't helping lol. But I really do like how he writes and plan to read a lot more of his work.