Shakespeare Day

[Thelma]

Today, 23rd April, we should be celebrating Will! So I thought about bringing him into discussion here, he was my lucky playwright in a very important exam. I got a subject on Shakespeare and I also got the best mark for it, I also wrote a paper about films based on his plays and I can say I’m quite a fan. Questions:

1) What are your favourite Shakespeare plays and why?

2) What are your favourite films based on his plays ?

3) What do you think about the plays anyway and do you believe that story with a different mysterious person who is supposed to have written the plays for him? Yesterday, a friend of mine was telling me that they do the same thing with Moliere, some people are trying to demonstrate that it is king Louis who wrote the plays.

 

[jenn]

i haven't read very many of his plays, just what is required in high school. however i loved it unlike my friends who thought it was dull.
i really enjoyed mel gibson as hamlet ( and disney's hamlet the lion king, lol) and i loved much ado about nothing.
i think i enjoyed reading midsummer nights dream the best simply because my teacher loved it so much and made it highly enjoyable. however i hated the movies, both the 1999 and 1935 versions. mickey rooney was intolerable as puck.

 

[Martin]

I've read a lot of Shakespeare, and nothing really made a lasting impression. The ones I liked best were Romeo & Juliet and The Merchant of Venice.

Whenever I'm reading one of his plays I have this nagging suspicion that they'd be a lot better if they were written in prose.

Cheers

 

[Dogtanian]

It has also been St George's day as well

Had my English flag flying from my car today in celebration

 

[Ellie82]

I do like Shakespeare but have to say i find the language quite difficult. I have tried to read them on my own but have failed miserably, so this is just going on what I did at school - but they are good stories and that is why they make such good plays/ films.

Favourite Shakespeare plays are Much Ado About Nothing which i found funny and relatively straightforward and Romeo and Juliet.

Favourite Films: 10 things I hate about you (I think based on The Taming of the Shrew - which i have never read), and Hamlet which I have read but struggled with, and Romeo and Juliet.

As for your third question I hadn't heard that before so can't really comment!