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Re: Shakespearean tragedies vandevere Send a noteboard - 09/03/2011 03:49:14 AM
Hamlet is my all time favorite. I mean the Bard put everything into it, up to and including the kitchen sink. I the hands of a lesser writer, it might have turned into a turgid pot-boiler. But Shakespeare made it work. My favorite version was the one directed by Zeffirelli(SP?). Whatever his personal faults, Mel Gibson was utterly perfect as Hamlet, and Helena Bonham Carter was one of the most tragic Ophelias I've ever seen...

I guess Macbeth would be my second favorite. I've seen both Jeremy Brett's version and Nicol Williamson's version

I enjoyed one specific version of Othello, the Olivier version because Frank Finlay made such a sublimely wicked Iago...



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Shakespearean tragedies Larry - 07/03/2011 11:31:34 PM 846 Views
Othello and Hamlet are my favorites. Darth_Katie - 08/03/2011 12:12:41 AM 579 Views
I have not read Romeo and Juliet since my mother taught it my 9th grade year...in Spring 1989 Larry - 08/03/2011 12:24:28 AM 652 Views
I found reading Romeo and Juliet to be quite boring as well. ranagrande - 08/03/2011 01:36:41 AM 665 Views
Hamlet and Macbeth. Camilla - 08/03/2011 12:20:58 AM 670 Views
I've had the pleasure of teaching Macbeth before Larry - 08/03/2011 12:23:17 AM 695 Views
Mine too HousealThor - 09/03/2011 04:26:08 PM 594 Views
Hamlet and Macbeth, but I haven't read all of them. Ghavrel - 08/03/2011 01:17:32 AM 700 Views
Julius Caesar ranagrande - 08/03/2011 01:32:18 AM 676 Views
I agree with all three of your points. Rebekah - 10/03/2011 09:32:32 PM 680 Views
Prefer his comedies, but... ironclad - 08/03/2011 11:10:43 AM 704 Views
Lear wheelwright - 08/03/2011 02:12:49 PM 692 Views
There's many of those I still have to read. Legolas - 08/03/2011 06:06:32 PM 667 Views
othello and hamlet are my faves. r&j is fun, but not a real favorite by any stretch. temeraire - 08/03/2011 08:23:11 PM 596 Views
Re: Shakespearean tragedies vandevere - 09/03/2011 03:49:14 AM 880 Views
I admit i've only read King Lear Stephen - 10/03/2011 01:46:47 PM 608 Views
Of the seven I've read, Fred Gaidin - 13/03/2011 11:30:20 PM 598 Views
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