Romeo and Juliet

[BabyPiglet]

Next week we are going to start reading this. Is it good. The rest of the year in English will be all about Shakespeare. What's your favorite play?

 

[Sparx]

yes,

and hamlet.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

Romeo and Juliet is good...and Hamlet is my favorite too because it is the perfect combination of Romeo & Juliet as well as Macbeth.

 

[WORLDwarQUIFFLE]

I loved Hamlet.

I've always loved the story of Romeo & Juliet, we read a watered down version in sixth grade.. but I've never read the actual play.

 

[Sparx]

I loved Hamlet.

I've always loved the story of Romeo & Juliet, we read a watered down version in sixth grade.. but I've never read the actual play.

you can find it on the internet. its well worth the read.

 

[Mickey1122]

I liked it, but it would have been so much better if the whole story wasn't analyzed to death in class.

 

[Lil_Tink]

Were reading it. Anyone else notice how its semi perverted? I have the translations book, interesting....

 

[Sparx]

Were reading it. Anyone else notice how its semi perverted? I have the translations book, interesting....

The only story I can think of where two people lose their virginity, get married, and die before they're sixteen.

 

[DramaGirl]

I love West Side Story, but I've never read R&J.

Tie for my favorite shakespeare plays:
Much Ado About Nothing (I'm in it right now ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (LOVE it )

 

[TinkerTracy]

I loved Romeo and Juliet I agree though about the over analyzing of it in class. I also liked Macbeth.

 

[PatriotsRule]

you can find it on the internet. its well worth the read.

Any Shakespeare is worth the read in it's original style. I've read Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, and my class just started Hamlet. So far my favorite is Macbeth, but we're only into Act I Scene i in Hamlet and I already know I'm going to love it. I'm also one of those weird people who loves character analysis. I've actually gotten pretty good at it.

 

[jenny_disney]

I'm currently studying Twelfth Night. It's ok I suppose, but I don't get the old fashioned humour lol

 

[Babyjustrun]

I don't know, as I've never read them.
But my brother hated Hamlet, but, it's one of those books that are better either just read (school over does novels and such) or doesn't appeal. My brother couldn't make much of it so he bought a shorter version that's used to help with school work..

 

[Loves Disney]

I don't like Romeo and Juliet. I think it is one of his weaker plays and I feel it doesn't show Shakespeare's talent. It shows he can write and that he had his own language but shows nothing of how brilliantly talented he was.

I was not impressed by Romeo and Juliet and it really isn't a favorite of mine. I won't die if I never read it again.

Hamlet...heh, now that is a different story. I am madly in love with that play rofl. I must have read it...oh...4? times now and I watched the play performed in a theater and have seen the movie (ALL of it, not an "cut and paste" movie) twice. (Plus, I love K.B. - best Shakespearean actor).

Currently, I am reading Macbeth for the second time and I, like Hamlet, am madly in love with this play haha. I love his greatest tragedies. I don't consider Romeo and Juliet one of his greatest tragedies. People die. Big woop rofl. In plays like Hamlet, they die...and I mean, they drop cold dead in such a way that is breath taking, seriously! Okay, I get myself excited over Shakespeare...so sue me lol.

Another great play, though comedy, is Love's Labour's Lost. Though I don't recommend anyone to read it until they are older haha. In this play, he REALLY shows off his language and really uses his own. He had his own language, by the way lol.

I recommend Othello. That is another of his greatest tragedies. I love it. Plus -- definite Disney connection there...The protagonist is named Iago! Okay, so I had to say it rofl.

Macbeth and Hamlet, though, those two are my absolute favorite of his greatest tragedies. Not Romeo and Juliet...yeah, okay, it's sad...boo who, cry me a river. Poor Romeo and Juliet. lol. Nah, it's okay, really...just, it's nothing, NOTHING compared to his better plays. Romeo and Juliet is good for those just starting out in Shakespeare. It's an excellent play to start with because it is so much easier to interpret and understand. Plus it's great to analyze (though not as great for that reason than some others of his).

The play I dislike the most is A Midsummer Night's Dream. Now THAT play is fluff and has nothing of significance. It really is a "burp" for Shakespeare that really isn't a good play to connect Shakespeare to because it doesn't show his talent at all. But it's okay to read for fun...but not for anything decent. Really. IMHO.

 

[DisneyGirl421]

Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello are my favorite shakespearen plays. But I also love Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night.

 

[chexie]

i liked antigone and romeo and juliet i aboslutley hate julius caesar

 

[PatriotsRule]

I didn't like Julius Caesar either.

And for the record, Iago is one of the BEST Shakespearean characters EVER. So is Hamlet!

 

[EeyoreFan1]

I have to write a story in writing about that. Some Shakespere play, NOT looking forward to it at all. I hate shakespere, and that's very odd for me to say, with myself being such a writer, but I do. The end.

 

[Loves Disney]

i liked antigone and romeo and juliet i aboslutley hate julius caesar

Antigone wasn't written by Shakespeare. It was written by Sophocles in 441 BC...Shakespeare wrote his plays in the late 1500s and early 1600s...AD! lol.

I didn't like Julius Caesar either.

And for the record, Iago is one of the BEST Shakespearean characters EVER. So is Hamlet!

I definitely agree with that! Despite my untamed love for Hamlet however, I think Iago is a greater character *gasp!*. I mean...he is the villain of villains. Truly amazing character, really.

 

[disneyangel7488]

Were reading it. Anyone else notice how its semi perverted? I have the translations book, interesting....

All of his plays (that I've read so far) are like that. One of my high school English teachers actually pointed out every sexual reference in every Shakespeare play we read that year.

My favorite Shakespearean play is Hamlet- it's such an interesting story.