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[bohemian]

I love the plays of the great Bard - Shakespeare.

 

There is a very good online resource - or eBard - at the following site.

 

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

 

What is your favourite play?  Mine is A Midsummer Night's Dream.

[rocket]

Nice! At first I thought this might be another Beard thread in disguise. 

[normadenardo]

Nice! At first I thought this might be another Beard thread in disguise. 

haha... me too !

[Old]

I find verse hard to read, though have struggled through Romeo and Juliet in Project Guttenberg.

I like the movie versions of his plays such as "The Taming of the Shrew" with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.. 

The first Marlon Brando movie I saw was "Julius  Caesar", still watch it when it comes around on TV.

[bohemian]

This is an amazing performance of Richard II by Mark Rylance: the scene in Act 5 when he is in prison and soliloquises thus:

 

[palmhat]

This is an amazing performance of Richard II by Mark Rylance: the scene in Act 5 when he is in prison and soliloquises thus:

 

'Tis  a beautiful thing, I think, to say such thoughts , though not thine own.

   To make us think and feel and touch a place that is and is not home.

 

Thank you for sharing.

[palmhat]

I find verse hard to read, though have struggled through Romeo and Juliet in Project Guttenberg.

I like the movie versions of his plays such as "The Taming of the Shrew" with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.. 

The first Marlon Brando movie I saw was "Julius  Caesar", still watch it when it comes around on TV.

 Just last week I purchased "The Taming of the Shrew".  I may do the same with "Julius Ceasar". Can't wait for TV as I haven't that vice. (TV that is). 

[Qapla]

The best version of The Taming of the Shrew I ever enjoyed is a bit of a farcical rendition (the production is in the style of Italian commedia dell'arte.
) with Marc Singer - it is funny, yet very good and has a somber, impactfull climax when Kate acquiesces

[SunnyG]

Is Shakespeare quoted too often?

That is the question.

[bagg10ns]

I tend to favor the tragedies.  

 

Hamlet: Favorite verse

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

 

Macbeth:  Favorite verse: 

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.

 

It is so hard so single out a favorite, but my least favorite is Pericles.