Evangelina

I don't know why, but absolutely detest Shakespear the poet and love Shakespear the playwrite

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Shawn

They are one in the same. Shakespeare writes in iambic pentameter regardless of the form. Except when using "commoner" speech. Then he writes in prose.

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Dexter67

I really liked Much Ado.
Didn't like Romeo and Juliet so much, however.

Those are the only two I've read. I've seen MacBeth, R&J, and Much Ado performed before.

Someday I'll read more Shakespeare. Maybe over summer when I'm not busy with Honors Lit and the three novels I have to read over the course of the next two months,

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VeryShyGuy

I too am a Shakespeare fan. In high school when the teacher went through King Lear and Macbeth I was hooked. Later I went out and bought an anthology of Shakespeare's plays, lo and behold I couldn't understand a word of it! If I could understand them, I would reread King Lear and Macbeth. I might add Hamlet and Julius Caesar to the reading list also.


Well, thats my 2 cents. For now, farewell......parting is such sweet sorrow.

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LadyPenelope

I love Shakespeare. His sonnets are so beautiful and the plays, wow! Although I don't always understand what is being said, but I always enjoy the rhythm of his work. The plays should always be watched, not read and I also believe Shakespeare shouldn't be taught in schools. It's awful studying Shakespeare at high school and that's the best way to kill someone's love of the bard is to have some idiot English teacher stuff meanings down their throats. His work was meant for enjoyment. I'm enjoying it at college though. My fave is probably Romeo and Juliet, even though Romeo is a bit of a muppet at times. The language is exquisite. Beatrice from Much Ado is probably my favourite character, but I hate and despise Hero. Grow a backbone girl!

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novu

My favourite Shakespeare play has to be Antony and Cleopatra, it is faultless.

'Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
Kingdoms are clay.'