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I love:

A Midsummer's Night Dream

If we offend, it is with our good will.
That you should think, we come not to offend,
But with good will. To show our simple skill,
That is the true beginning of our end.
Consider then we come but in despite.
We do not come as minding to contest you,
Our true intent is. All for your delight
We are not here. That you should here repent you,
The actors are at hand and by their show
You shall know all that you are like to know.

King Lear

Hear me, recreant!
On thine allegiance, hear me!
Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow,
Which we durst never yet, and with strain'd pride
To come between our sentence and our power,
Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,
Our potency made good, take thy reward.
Five days we do allot thee, for provision
To shield thee from diseases of the world;
And on the sixth to turn thy hated back
Upon our kingdom: if, on the tenth day following,
Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions,
The moment is thy death. Away! by Jupiter,
This shall not be revoked.

Posts: 1040 · Posted: November 27, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject:

I like Shakespeare

He was an awesome writer.
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Posts: 15 · Joined: Dec 5, 2007 Location: La La Land Posts: 15

Oooh I LOVE his sonnets more than anything !!!!
his poetry is amazing !! =)

Posts: 4517 · Joined: Dec 8, 2007 Location: Lynchburg, Va Posts: 4517

We had to read Much Ado About Nothing in school this year. It was better than I thought it would be, I liked it.

Posts: 16790 · Posted: January 17, 2008 2:42 am Post subject:

i've just started my shakespeare class and finished reading Midsummer's Night's Dream tonight and I loved it! It was so funny...especially the play within a play. I want to play Wall hahahaha.
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Posts: 1369 · Joined: Aug 17, 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1369

^ Oh, plays within plays . . .

We're reading "that scottish play" (Macbeth) in school now. It's pretty good, but I still love Taming of the Shrew the best.
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Macbeth was awesome.

Sir Ian Mckellen as Macbeth was great.

Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth was not.
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Posts: 3 · Joined: Jan 12, 2008 Location: Hogsmeade Posts: 3

I loved studying Shakespeare in English, I was probably one of the only ones in my class who did. I had to study both Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet, both plays I loved, both reading & discussing them!

Posts: 3429 · Posted: January 25, 2008 11:15 am Post subject:

Taming of the shrew was by far my favorite Shakespeare play. I went and saw it during the Shakespearian festival in Ashland Oregon and it was awesome... i also saw romeo and juliet... i hate to admit it... but i went to sleep in the middle of it. i never did like romeo and juliet but everyone was going so i went. if you guys really enjoy Shakespeare plays you need to at least once in your life go to a play during the festival!
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Posts: 4997 · Posted: January 26, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject:

I so wanted to take the shakespare class this semester at my college.. but my classes did not let me.. grr.
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Posts: 401 · Joined: Jan 21, 2008 Location: The Burrow Posts: 401

At first Shakespeare can be really confusing, but once you get the characters and plot you understand that Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers ever.

Posts: 67 · Joined: Jan 31, 2008 Posts: 67

I love The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado about nothing

but my favorite is King Lear. I feel so bad for Cordelia

Posts: 10805 · Posted: January 31, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject:

Ah, Shakespere, the Great Writer!

Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear.
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Posts: 79 · Joined: Nov 3, 2007 Posts: 79

I have only read one Shakespeare play, The Merchant of Venice, and it was great! I love dramedies...people hate it when I use the word "dramedy".
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Posts: 15859 · Joined: Aug 1, 2007 Location: Santa Rosa, CA Posts: 15859

Ive read

Romeo and Juliet
and Othello

loved them both
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Posts: 16790 · Posted: March 7, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject:

ooo I love that sonnet. I have to memorize a sonnet for my shake midterm...I have the first 6 lines memorized nearly perfectly. might be a few minor flubs

Farewell, thou art too dear for my possessing
and like enough thou know'st thy estimate
the charter of thy worth is thee releasing
my bonds in thee are all determinate
for how do I hold thee but by thy granting
and for that treasure where is my deserving.

sonnet #87
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Posts: 2506 · Posted: March 9, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject:

We're reading Julius Caesar in school right now. I like the story, i just find it really hard to understand.
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Posts: 3429 · Posted: March 13, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject:

i thought julius caesar was an easy to understand play... but its also one of my faves... i have this thing for roman history!
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Haha..I have a thing for British history, so out of the histories I prefer Henry V and Richard III. Very Happy

In English our teacher asked us to write down everything we knew about Shakespeare..and I was like.. "Everything I know? Do you WANT a book?"
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Posts: 3429 · Posted: March 15, 2008 12:39 am Post subject:

yeah i remember that day... i decided to be a complete dumb ass and said he was a dead white man who wrote julius caesar which will start reading next week. yeah... got an F on that pop quiz thank god they were worth five points... lol

but to be honest im not sure if i truly did know much on him when i was a sophmore other than when he was alive did plays in london and a few of his plays...
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Posts: 3429 · Posted: March 15, 2008 2:49 pm Post subject:

post the link man post the link!!
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