Let's see...I've done:Romeo & JulietMacbethHamletTwelfth NightThe TempestOthelloSheesh...six...yeah, feels about right.
[OFFICIAL] How many Shakespeare plays have you studied
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Posted 29 May 2007 - 02:01 PM
1. Merchant of venice2. Macbethi find them confusing..
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Posted 29 May 2007 - 03:01 PM
comedy of errors and romeo and juliet
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Posted 30 May 2007 - 07:35 AM
there are many themes and motifs in romeo and juliet. not just love and prejudice. it also embeds a message of the consequences of hatred and emnity.
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Posted 31 May 2007 - 04:44 PM
R&J is soooo coolBut i got a little shaked when i read that Juliet has only 14 yersIve liked Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear but i dont like his comedies - actually i dont like commedies at all
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Posted 31 May 2007 - 07:36 PM
I agree almost completely with this. While there are some touching parts in the story, it just seems way too fickle. Romeo's just getting over Rosaline, and then -boom- there Juliet and he loves her and Rosaline was nothing. I wouldn't call this play a complete failure...The ending is romantic at least (if melodramatic), and Mercutio is a hilarious character. I think it teaches that if two people are in love with one another, their families shouldn't get in their way, that love should be allowed to blossom. But, at the same time, it also seems like a glorified lust story, as Vicious said.Romeo and Juliet is not a love story. It's a lust story. It's one of Shakespeare's great failures I think. It's just a rubbish story that for some odd reason has gotten massive fanfare. Basically.. Romeo, who at the beginning of the play is in love with Rosaline, meets Juliet at a party.. they decide after a brief meeting to run off and get married (both of these people, mind you, are teenagers) in secret. Then Romeo, the brilliant kid he is, kills Juliet's cousin and is forced to flee and Juliet, rather than admit she's already married, is about to be forced to marry someone else.. So she pretends to kill herself, Romeo sees this and kills himself, then Juliet wakes up and kills herself. The only reason they got married was so they could legally have sex. It's so.. pathetic. On top of all that, we run around and teach teenagers this (since it is required reading in most H.S.) and romanticize the idea of suicide. Great idea. This honestly is not a love story. There is nothing remotely about love in the whole thing. It's a lust story and once you've realized that, it's really pathetic. It's not even a very good tragedy.Oh and if you're going to say what right do i have to say any of this, I studied this play twice in my life.. Once was with a Shakespearian scholar who adored Shakespeare and everything he wrote.. except this piece. Shakespeare has much, much better.. Like Hamlet (for tragedies) or A MidSummer's Night's Dream (for Comedies).
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Posted 01 June 2007 - 05:08 AM
I have only studied Macbeth...
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Posted 01 June 2007 - 05:22 AM
3 midsummer nights dream, romeo and juliet, King Lear
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Posted 01 June 2007 - 06:19 AM
only Romeo and Juliet on my secondary school....
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Posted 01 June 2007 - 06:55 AM
I only studied Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caeser. I liked Caeser better though.
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Posted 01 June 2007 - 08:51 PM
ive studied a midsummer nights dream and romeo and juliet but thats about it
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Posted 07 June 2007 - 10:07 PM
I am not really a big fan of Shakesphere because it takes me awhile to try and take his word's and translate them into modern english that I can understand. Most of his books where based on problems that we have in society and how we view each other. Shakesphere was a brillant man and writer but he isn't my cup of tea.
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Posted 08 June 2007 - 01:43 PM
Shakespeare is good. Many of his pieces are very good, best plays in history in fact. Romeo and Juliet... meh. Didn't catch my eye as being as brilliant as Othello or Beowulf (yes, I know that's not by Shakespeare - just a point of comparison)... The people are portrayed so unrealistically in it. I mean, what birdbrained idiot goes off and marries a teenage girl just because he saw her at a party and thought she was hot? I bet they would have broken up in two months if they didn't die. Friar Lawrence... you are seriously retarded. Jeez Louise, Friar. I would have expected better from a holy man such as yourself. Go jump off a cliff.Juliet is also a rip-off of Sophocles' Antigone.]]Oh, and to prove your point, viciouswhispers.... Our school taught us Antigone and Romeo and Juliet in the same trimester, along with Lord of the Flies.
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Posted 12 June 2007 - 12:16 AM
R&J is not about love at all. It's a tragedy about fickleness, first introduced by Romeo following the will of his loins, echoed in Mercutio's stupid death, and finally tied back in the family feud and how ridiculous humans can be when blinded by the two forces of lust and vengeance.Hamlet and King Lear are masterpieces. Romeo and Juliet was... a sort of test-run for Shakespeare. He had to make some money. What better than with a story full of sex and swords?
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Posted 12 June 2007 - 12:19 AM
I read that same book, my teacher wanted me to read it too and we didn't have to act it out but we had to read it and watch the movie of it.To be, or not to... aw sod it *goes and finds a beer*I studied "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in class a few months gone, it was kind of weird because the teacher made us act it out, but beyond that, it was good, most of Shakespeare's work is good, just fairly boring (I think) to read.
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Posted 14 June 2007 - 10:02 AM
I guess we do have to note that Shakespeare wasn't writing his plays to try to achieve a place in the great hall of fame of literature. He wrote his plays to entertain the common people, people who maybe didn't know how to read or write, who rarely had the chance to enjoy something like a play. So he would have written something that people can connect with, scenarios that they could imagine, but yet at the same dramatised for it to be fascinating.And what he ended up with, was a a witty, and often times lewd reflection of society, greatly exaggerated.
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Posted 01 August 2007 - 08:00 AM
Midsummer night's dream and I've got to say I hated it. Didn't understand a word
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Posted 01 August 2007 - 10:35 AM
I love the depth of Shakespeare's work. I've studied so many...The Merry Wives of WindsorOthelloMidsummer Night's DreamMacbethHamletHenry VThe Merchant Of VeniceThe TempestKing LearTitus AdronicusRomeo and JulietMuch Ado About Nothing All very good.
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Posted 01 August 2007 - 11:30 AM
Let's see...I've studied...Romeo and Juliet.Taming of the Shrew.Julius Ceaser.A Midnight Summer's Dream.And I believe thats all the one's i've studied so far.
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Posted 02 August 2007 - 07:31 AM
I studied both Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth for lovely school! ...fair is foul and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air! 
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Posted 02 August 2007 - 07:34 AM
only romeo and juliet, and julius caesar. they were both boring imo.
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Posted 02 August 2007 - 08:10 AM
ive only did one romeo and juliet during english.
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Posted 02 August 2007 - 08:14 AM
only mcduffbut they are still all pretty boring I think
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Posted 02 August 2007 - 08:15 AM
i have heard lots but not studied none
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Posted 02 August 2007 - 08:16 AM
I mean mcbeth just mcduff is pretty strong you knowonly mcduffbut they are still all pretty boring I think
