Shakespeare....

[ummmm]

I've only read Macbeth.

How many have you read?

[anneasquith]

there is only one macbeth.

[carmalee]

had to do Midsummer Night's Dream at College - hated it - can't stand Shakespeare

[glasman]

Most of them at one stage or another - Titus Andronicus is a laugh a minute.

[ummmm]

You should be stage Annie....I can't stop laughing here...!!!

I quite enjoyed Macbeth Carmalee...

[anneasquith]

you tell me what "stage " is and i will consider it.

[shaneystar2]

We had Julius Caesar at school and Romeo and Juliet .
The only thing that made it bearable were the records by Richard Burton reading Shakespeare
His voice was to die for :) .
I've seen Shakespeare at the theatre ( Othello) and it was superb .But as for sitting and reading it ...No :-)

[China Doll]

Got to 8 so far I think, I'm counting on my fingers...

[ummmm]

:-)

[carmalee]

I liked the humour in MND but not the prose - don't like Dickens either which probably makes me a Phillistine.

[jno]

not really meant to be read. The language is getting a bit archaic now, but good actors can make it all work. Try one of the Richard IIIs (Olivier or McKellen)

[China Doll]

Definitely 8... Romeo & Juliet, Trolius & Cressida (very bad spelling!), Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Nights Dream. And a few sonnets. My favourite is Hamlet.

I had to study most of those but I do like them.

Oh just remembered, I read the tempest as well!

[jno]

you often see Trollius around here late at night until he gets banned...

[China Doll]

There's a couple of Cressida's around too...

[bibblebub]

Got 16 on DVD - favourites are Othello (Orson Welles), Titus (Anthony Hopkins) and Richard III (Ian McKellen).

[boxtops]

I've read most of them ummm, but not for quite a long time - I did A level Eng Lit at school so we ploughed through a lot. I still maintain that they are better seen not read - the language and nuances make more sense when you see it acted out.

[China Doll]

Oh yeah, Othello, forgot that one!

[B00]

Non voluntarily, though did Mcbeth at school.

I'd like to read them, if I could read them without the flowery language and "twenty words to describe one" writing in them.

Infact- does anyone know if there are such books about? Shakspeare stories, but modernised?

[Bambi_1]

I've studied/read/seen/acted in at least 15, maybe 20, and some of the sonnets. But I did study English at university. However, I do like Shakespeare. My A Level English teacher had to study all his works at university, as did probably a good few of my lecturers.

[Bambi_1]

Boo - try Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare. My parents had it when I was a child.