I am personally very fond of Hamlet, MacBeth, and Julius Caesar.
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Romeo and Juliet.... I just love that play. It's beautiful and romantic. Much Ado About Nothing is another favorite.
shareI seem to like the tragedies better than the comedies because the tragedies are more real. I mean, we are all going to die someday. Sorry if this upsets anyone out there, but it is the truth-maybe you can't handle it.
shareTwelfth Night was the most fun Shakespeare I have ever done. Of course, I got to be Feste the Jester, so I think I had the single best part!! :D
Hamlet is a great play, but it is so long... and frankly I think the tragedies are nowhere near as rewarding to work on as the comedies.
My personal favorites would be Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and Comedy of Errors...and of course, Midsummer Night's Dream.
If you are wanting my opinion of his "BEST" works, it would then be Hamlet, King Lear, the Scottish Play, and The Tempest.
Oh, I hate that b.s. about calling Macbeth the Scottish Play. It is ridiculous. Okay, let's call the other plays that, like Hamlet the Danish Play, Merchant of Venice the anti-Semetic Play, and so on. Hamlet is long, but it is still pretty good.
shareThe Comedies: A Midsummer Nights Dream
Twelth Night, The Taming Of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing
The Tragedies: Othello, Hamlet,
The Histories: Anthony and Cleopatra and Henry V
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If I HAD to choose one, it would be a very hard choice, but I'd say The Merchant of Venice. It has for me the greatest selection of interesting/loathsome characters, and some of the best lines. It's fantastic.
shareA Midsummer Nights Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet. One of those three....I don't think I can narrow it down more than that!
shareThe Tempest
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