Shakespeare

[ShadowSa1nt]

Does anybody like Shakespeare? I am reading the Merchant of Venice in my English class and it is really BORING

[Trixie Belden]

I like Shakespeare! He's seriously cool! Twelth Night is my favorite play of his. It's a lot of confusing identites, romance, and comedy!

[StrongNChrist]

I love reading Shakespeare now.

If you find it boring and hard to read, try reading it out loud, as if you were all the actors rather then just a reader. I find it makes it much more interesting.

[Moontide]

I don't have an high opinion of Shakespeare. I think his comedies were very repetitive.

[Jonathan]

Does anybody like Shakespeare?

Yes. Imo, he was brilliant, possibly the best storyteller of his era, and the fact that people are still reading his works and attending his plays well over 400 years later speaks to his talent.

[Laurie]

I can find more exciting things to read. Shakespeare is very dry reading IMHO.

[MAINE]

I can find more exciting things to read. Shakespeare is very dry reading IMHO.

I agree, I'll watch the movies of his plays and those are ok if you can understand them, but I'd rather read historical fiction any day. I have to read Shakespeare for school though.

[Termite]

Shakespeare is like, the best writer in history. EVER.

I just finished reading Julius Caesar. Very sad, but it was still (an)epic.

[ShadowSa1nt]

I love reading Shakespeare now.

If you find it boring and hard to read, try reading it out loud, as if you were all the actors rather then just a reader. I find it makes it much more interesting.

I got the audio version out of the library and that was a little more bearable. The background music is terrible. (Merchant of Venice)

[Moontide]

Yes. Imo, he was brilliant, possibly the best storyteller of his era, and the fact that people are still reading his works and attending his plays well over 400 years later speaks to his talent.

The fact the people are reading his plays 400 years after only means some people think it is good.

[Marvin D.]

I can find more exciting things to read. Shakespeare is very dry reading IMHO.

I agree, I'll watch the movies of his plays and those are ok if you can understand them, but I'd rather read historical fiction any day. I have to read Shakespeare for school though.

Ditto. Shakespeare is like...boring. I have a book, I skimmed and and never opened it again.

[Danielle Abigail Maxwell]

Shakespeare is amazing! Okay, so, I say I dont' understand, but after reading "HamleT" and "Romeo and Juliet", oh, and the funniest "Much Ado About Nothing", I like him a lot! I've seen "A MidSummer Nights Dream" in play form, and watched the movie for Romeo and Juliet (the one we watched, Romeo looked like Zac Efron... lol) and Much Ado About Nothing.

He's pretty cool!

[Shennifer]

I think it'd be really cool to see a Shakespeare play. Or another classic one, like Pride and Prejudice for example. But back to the Bard. I've read Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and Julius Caesar. I liked the last 2 the best I think, though they were all good. yes, there was a lot I didn't quite understand, but it was still good to read famous quotes (especially in Hamlet)
To be or not to be. That is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...that's all I can remember, but with a little help from AIO

[Termite]

Et tu, Brute?

Haha. I had to.

[Jimmy Barclay Fan]

He was a great writer, but I cant get into his plays. I went and saw Romeo and Julietat the local community theatre, as I love cheering on the people I know. Even though they did a really good job and its good, I about fell asleep a few times. Last year during A Midsummer Night's Dream, I really had a hard time and about fell asleep a few times

[Sam15]

I really have not read shakespear but I think It might get boaring because I really do not like poety.

[jasonjannajerryjohn]

Being a theatre person, I've read one or two of his plays. Hamlet and "That Scottish Play" ftw. Also Julius Caesar.

[Termite]

I really have not read shakespear but I think It might get boaring because I really do not like poety.

It's not poetry, though. =P It's dialogue. You get to imagine everything, and it's all in the old style version of speech, so it's

[Danielle Abigail Maxwell]

I really have not read shakespear but I think It might get boaring because I really do not like poety.

It's not poetry, though. =P It's dialogue. You get to imagine everything, and it's all in the old style version of speech, so it's

Some of it is poetry in the dialogue though. Many speeches and parts of plays have a format, with rhymes, specific # of lines.

But yeah, Nathan, he's not boring. Hamlet is really exciting, and Much Ado About Nothing is hysterical. He wrote of plays.

I'm kind of shocked you haven't encountered him yet. Even so, you probably will one day. Just in my 4 years of HS, I've read three plays, and glanced at many other plays of his. Shakespeare was a worker of art in words.

[Termite]

I really have not read shakespear but I think It might get boaring because I really do not like poety.

It's not poetry, though. =P It's dialogue. You get to imagine everything, and it's all in the old style version of speech, so it's

Some of it is poetry in the dialogue though. Many speeches and parts of plays have a format, with rhymes, specific # of lines.

But yeah, Nathan, he's not boring. Hamlet is really exciting, and Much Ado About Nothing is hysterical. He wrote of plays.

I'm kind of shocked you haven't encountered him yet. Even so, you probably will one day. Just in my 4 years of HS, I've read three plays, and glanced at many other plays of his. Shakespeare was a worker of art in words.

Eh, true that... What I meant was that it's not just stanzas of pathetic, unrhyming lines that make no sense whatsoever.
I've read... Seven of his plays, I think... The Merchent of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Casear, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, and I half-heartedly listened to Hamlet being read by my mother and sister. (and I didn't really understand MAaN when I was 12, so I guess I should read it again... )