Favorite play by Shakespeare

[Tooba Malik]

aoa members . share your favourite play written by shakespeare and describe why do u like it most.

[Gulrukh]

toba,

I love all comedies,all tragedies especially that othello which revolves around a general.macbeth and king lear are also great.

but the play which i love most is a comedy called Twelfth Night by shakespeare.besically a comedy of errors.revolving around twin brother and sister.viola and sebastian are bro and sis repectively.written in elizabethan period ofcourse the age of shakespeare.
how both sis and bro are misunderstood by all.i mean the girl viola is considerd by all a boy becaz she loses her bro in ship wreck and is in need of some job at duke's place.she disguises as a boy to enter his services.but falls in love with duke.
duke's sweetheart falls in love with this disguised person becaz she thinks that he is a boy.
misunderstanding starts here which leads to so funny events.
i really liked this play.it is so funny.

this play has strong characterization i mean Malvolio and Feste are so wonderfull characters.but i love the character of viola.boy and girl at the same time.

romeo and juliet play is also good but its end is so tragic.so realistic.poor star-crossed lovers.dead at the end.romeo drinks poison and juliet stabs herself.
very heart breaking tragedy.

i just love every thing which shakespeare wrote.that man was genius.

what is your favourite play toba?

[Eager]

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Reason for liking: lines are very beautiful, simply out of this world. just have a look at this one,

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind". (Act I, Scene I)

Moreover, the intricate and entangled love stories, the characters like Lysender and Helena, the comic situations, everything is created with masterly perfection.

Although Shakespeare's tragedies cannot be put aside, I have read Macbeth, Othelo and Hamlet as well... but reading this play is pleasure..simply..I love it

[Tooba Malik]

bhaya A L you donot mention Hamlet .do u not like it?

[Gulrukh]

Originally Posted by toba

bhaya A L you donot mention Hamlet .do u not like it?

no i dont like that impractical prince.i mean through out the play he just thinks about taking revenge of his dad's death but do nothing practical to eliminate his uncle the king the killer of his father.

'' to be or not to be '' is the line which define this play.quite a famous line.
it is also called Elizabethan revenge play.becaz revenge is the only motive which moves this play forward.

Hamlet wants revenge from king claudius but in the end he alerts him thus putting himself in danger.king too become suspicious of him and in the end he gets him killed.thus putting an end to all possible dangers to his throne.

Hamlet suffers becaz he missess many chances to kill king claudius.reason are his own madness and confused psychological condition.he suffers in the end becaz of his too much thinking and thus fails to avenge his father and himself becomes the reason of his fall.

Many of shakespearean heroes suffer becaz of their own weaknesess and Hamlet is one of them.

I dont like it much becaz i believe in instant revenge.

[Salman5]

lol from what we know of you, Antonio, you believe in instant everything :P lol.
Tragedy must be embraced, at least in fiction and in theatrics. Our problem is that spirit infused by iqbal's sayings and jinnahs' work work and work, we try and be the mard e momin and wish for everything to have a happy ending through "zor e bazu" even when we are deliberately defying fate and destiny. lol goes to show our literary patience :P

[Gulrukh]

Originally Posted by Salman5

lol from what we know of you, Antonio, you believe in instant everything :P lol.
Tragedy must be embraced, at least in fiction and in theatrics. Our problem is that spirit infused by iqbal's sayings and jinnahs' work work and work, we try and be the mard e momin and wish for everything to have a happy ending through "zor e bazu" even when we are deliberately defying fate and destiny. lol goes to show our literary patience :P

that was not good salman.

but anyways you said tragedy must be embraced atleast in fiction and thearics.you are right too.i will not disagree with you but there is so much tragedy in real life that you dont want to read it in fiction too.

yeah shakespearean tragedies are not that hopless i mean the concept of catharsis is there to purge us of all our bad notions regarding life.after seeing so much suffering in these tragedies our own tragedies look so feeble and so tolerable.these tragedies give us hope to continue despite hardships.

everyone loves happy ending that's why we read these stories becaz in real life it is not possible.only fiction provides us this.
shakespearean tragedies are classic much greater than his comedies and i love all his plays whether it is King Lear or that Winter's Tale.

it is my favorite topic and no body is talking over it.i mean it is so refreshing and beautiful topic.i just love shakespeare.
i really want to know which play you guyz like.i want to know the favorite play of last island and all those literature enthusiasts.

Toba and Salman tell me which play of shakespeare you like most.

[Tooba Malik]

[QUOTE=Antonio Lorenzo;231959]Toba and Salman tell me which play of shakespeare you like most.[ Hamlet is my favourite play for hamlet,s marvelously life like quality is a modern sense f dislocation.what is this sensitive man doing in such a complex and violent world,engaged on by a ghost to kill his uncle when he ought to b writting brainy verses for ophelia? while claudice and laerties leap at the chanc to kill hamlet stays his hand.his procrastination express a very modern confusion how do u live when ur values clash with those of society around u? this play is open ended, full of unexplaind unexplainable stuff .profound like life.it is like a onion and onion is ike life when we remove one layer of onion we r curius to remove second and we remove all layers but in the end there is nothing.it truely is a story that every one can relate to.it is astory with in many other stories like revenge story ,love story, family story. i have not typing speed i type pressing each button with 1 finger so it takes too much time.

[Salman5]

lol why was that "not good" antonio? I mean you didnt disagree with the point i was making, so whats that bad about it?

My favorite play is Macbeth. I've read it and watched it over and over again and it just never gets old. It can be rightly called the most politically charged writing by old man shak.

Fiction with a happy ending would be reduced to the level of a mere fantasy, something not even remotely as exalted as the careful articulation of loose ruminations, and then deep reaching expression of those reminiscences. If the purpose of fiction was just some quixotic juxtaposition of wishful thinking then fairy tales would have easily been serving our literary needs.

The logic behind tragedy, from Greek to Shakespearean and even in post modernist literature is embedded in the fundamental human trait of forgetting one's own worries in the shadows of the woes of others. When presented with a loss bigger than that of our own, we tend to empathize, even compare that to ours and then find ways to be either grateful for not ending up with something that bad, or just have a bigger load of compassion in our heart

Shakespearean characters are human beings, full of error, fallibility, and weakness of body, mind and spirit. Just as humans, they are shown to have room for great error just as they are capable of remorse, repenting, and atonement. Like picking the strings of a well tuned lute in the middle of a silent darkness, evoking the most harmonious tunes, Shak man probes the depths and heights of the human mind, kindling up its darkest twists and corners with the glow of awareness. And that, my friend, is what kept him from being understood back in his time, and valued in ours.

Enjoy.

Oh btw, my favorite line from his is one of his most alluring and debated ones:

"Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow..."

[competitive mind]

In my opinion,"SEVEN STAGE OF MAN " IS THE BEST ONE.BECAUSE IT TELLS US ABOUT WHOLE HUMAN LIFE FROM BIRTH TO DEATH.HIS JOYS, SORROWS ,AND EVERY SITUATION FACE BY HUMAN BEING