Comments on: Top 5 Shakespeare Plays

By: R-Dubz

R-Dubz — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:30:15 +0000

J-Caez iz teh play, mane.

top five easy.

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By: Dawood

Dawood — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:54:01 +0000

Oscar Wilde: “We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students.”

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By: ovm

ovm — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:59:03 +0000

Don Quixote was vote the best book ever by a international team of profesional writers in 2002. If you compare one by one all the works of WS, any is match for DQ.

Simple

By: JKC

JKC — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:20:16 +0000

Lear is definitely among the top 5, if not the greatest, in my opinion.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:16:01 +0000

The Merchant of Venice is a materpiece, nonetheless. I sometimes wonder if Shylock came across as a jester (back in the day) to those who were not prepared to hear Shakespeare’s sympathetic overtones—not to say that Shakespeare was untouched by the culture of his time. He was a product of it. But even so, his sympathy–even charity at times–toward his characters speaks beyond the social strictures of his culture.

By: Brian G

Brian G — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:07:46 +0000

I have to agree that Twelfth Night is the best comedy.

By: D. Fletcher

D. Fletcher — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:01:16 +0000

Hamlet is the greatest play. It may be followed in equal measure by Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and Richard III.

The comedies are lesser lights. Twelfth Night is the best of them, but Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and even The Comedy of Errors are all fine, enjoyable entertainments with wit and insight.

The Merchant of Venice is a problematic play.

A personal favorite from the rest of the plays is Julius Caesar.

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:13:11 +0000

Actually I have to confess that The Winter’s Tale is one of those I’ve never read.

And the canon is enforced by some lit folks as if it were by cannon and opposed with equal violence by other lit folks.

By: Bryce I

Bryce I — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:22:26 +0000

Bill has the good sense to include Measure for Measure. No one has mentioned The Winter's Tale either. Both are just as good as just about anything else that Shakespeare is credited with writing. And it's canon, like Pachelbel's, not cannon like the creator of Red Meat.