William Shakespeare

I hate shakespear! I hated having to study his books and although loads of people like romeo and juliet i think it is the most boring story! I cant really understand what he is talking about most of the time lol

I love Shakespeare! Okay, the fact that it's mostly drama and tragedy, tragedy and drama can be quite annoying, but still interesting. I love Romeo and Juliet, not because it's a romantic story, but because they show a love so strong that nothing can put them apart, not even death! The Balcony scene is the best ^^

I also read Much ado about nothing and I liked it. It was a bit confusing, but once you get it, it's really good. And King Lear too, and MacBeth! ^^ I love the fact that even if it's a normal book or a play, the characters always seem to be talking poetry, it's always so flowery ^^

I have a book with Shakespeare plays- not the real plays, but short stories of them (get it? lol). They were put in the kind of language I could understand, so I wasn't that confused reading them. I like his comedies best, as they are usually kind of twisted and have many different aspects. My favorites are Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night :D

But I saw the play "The Two Gentelmen of Verona" during acting camp... I'm sorry to say I left halfway through it because I had "other plans."

Shakespeare is ok. I liked king lear and twelfth night the best, though I probably wont read them again now im not at school lol

Well, I'm attempting to read Romeo and Juliet right now. I've kind of gotten used to the way he writes and am going to read Hamlet, McBeth, and King Lear (they all came in a pack) afterwards. Maybe I'll take a break from Shakespeare, though. We read Romeo and Juliet this year at school, so there I'll get a better understanding of it, I suppose.

he's confusing lol

I like Shakespeare :D hehe I've read The Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet.

I liked them both :D Hehe.

i've read Romeo and Juliet with my freshman class... i've also read teh book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which is a play based on two charaters from hamlet because of a play i was in...and we're going to read...er...the scottesh play...we're putting on some things in drama so i won't mention it...even outside of the theater. next year i'm going to be in the shakespear play , but i don't know which one we're doing. I love shakespear...lol a lot of my friends think it's boring.

I have to read MacBeth again for my Drama class in college lol. That and several other plays.. and after that we have to choose a monologue from one of the books we've read and I think I'll do Lady MacBeth ^^

*gasps at mc who might jinx the play walks out, turns around three times, spits over her left shoulder, knocks and asks to be let back in*

rofl omg sorry Lifey, didn't think

Meh all this superstition thingy... I stroke black cats and walks under ladders! Mwahaha! Okay, not the second one cause I'm scared not of bad luck, but of it falling on my head, but anyway. lol

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he's confusing lol

my thoughts exactly

it's okay mc, i'm not actually superstitious, but ....well you never reallllly know

lol the saying of the name in a play! I went through all that supersticion when we did some scenes in an engish class. Im not sure i believe it though lol

his plots are pretty good, but the language is torture to get around...

I agree - the language is so difficult to understand. I have studied a few in school and they are ok, i mean they are not my favourite of reads, but they are now awful

I studied a few in school, though because we were forced to read them, i just didnt ge on with them. I have seen the romeo and juliet film, though, and i loved that lol

Yeah I've seen both versions of the Romeo and Juliet film, I kinda like the newer age one more...*shrugs*

This spring my school is putting on A Midsummer Night's Dream which I'm just getting over excited about because of the Hermione-ish connections XD

I prefer the newer version as well.

I was in a midsummers night dream as well, I played Helena

Cool :D Fingers crossed that I maybe get a part, eh?

At school I'm Romeo in the play and so reading the script and researching the play is exhausting cuz of the speeches and the language. And if I read it to long I start speaking like that heh.

But I do like his storylines and I wouldn't mind reading more if I could get past the 'thou's and stuff ending in th's.

we're starting macbeth in english and i'm a drama freak so i started researching some of the bad stuff that's happened when you say macbeth in a theater when a plays being put on...you wouldn't believe some of the stuff!!!

Plus my brother was in a play, and i was there when one of the set designers said 'macbeth'...then i had to leave...but my brother told me that the rehersal that afternoon after hte person had said 'macbeth' was the worst rehersal they had ever had, and he nearly hurt himself falling into some stairs and scenery!

I'm a massive Shakespeare fan. I mean, I love it all XD Merchant of Venice is probably my favourite play, but Romeo and Juliet and King Lear come in a close second.

I've pretty much studied it throughout my educational career, and it's been my favourite parts of any lessons. The language is a little difficult at times, but I've never come across anything quite like it :D

I love Romeo and Juliet so much... I've always wanted to be in that play lol however I don't fit Juliet's description muchly XD I want to play it in english too... much prettier than french, even though it is rather beautiful in french.

Macbeth is good too, and I liked Much Ado About Nothing a lot ^^ Hamlet is kind of confusing lol and King Lear is great!

Yeah, I love Much Ado I did it in one of my uni classes...so many layers...

lol I didn't get much of it but I still loved it ^^

I love Shakespeare I think his work is just plan amazing. I can just get lost in his books and poems all the time, William shakespears work was the reason I fell in love with reading and writing and all that jazz. I just love doing Shakespearen thearter and everything. If I had not read his work because my school made me I would have not read or writen anything and that would have meant I would have not been on this site lol.Shock horror I know haha....

i hate shakespeare....he's way overrated

i love shakespear xD as i've said.

in drama we are doing shakespearian monolouges XD i have paulina's from winter's tale.

it's the one that goes

"what studied torments, tyrant, hast for me? what wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling in leads or oils? what old or newer torture must i recieve, whose every word deserves to taste of thy most worst?"

and then it ends "a thousand knees, ten thousand years, naked, fasting, upon a barren mountain, and still winter in storm perpetual, could not move the gods to look that way thou wert." *squees* i love it to pieces, especially the bit about "thy by-gove fooleries were but spices of it!"and "thy tyranny, together working with thy jealousies... ...o, think what they have done and then run mad indeed-stark mad!"

but i dont think i'd hate him so much if weren't consistently told how great he was

or if we could study something other than shakespeare in our english lessons

Lol aww...well compared to the other...er...cowdung books we have to read in english you'd probably love shakespreare lol, but ohhhhh wellxD

this year i performed much ado about nothing at my local theater i was Beatrice =]

my mum bought me the complete series of shakespheare work!
it massive!
im reading a midsummers nights dream at the minute i love this one its a classic!

Cool, I've read quite a few of Shakesperes works, and acted out a couple too. I'm the only person in my class to enjoy them, and I don't know why. Have fun reading them, I know I would even though they would take ages.

im reading a mid summers nights dream... i love this story as it was the first ione i ever saw acted out... it is brilliant! i didn't expect it to be as good to read but its better!

welll...I read Romeo and Juliet in school, does that count? I wanna read some of the other ones...but I don't know what any of them are about. But...next time I go to a bookstore I wanna get at least one of them.