Shakespeare Meme
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forestofgloryI've been seeing this around on my reading page and it seemed like fun. I've seen a fair amount of Shakespeare because my parents have good friends who live in Ashland, OR and we used to drive up and stay with them and see some plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) there. We'll see how well I remember what I've seen.
Italics = film or tv, bold = seen on stage:
All's Well That Ends Well (At OSF)
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It -- ??? I think I saw a production of this but I'm not sure
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost (I've seen this a couple of time no, but the 1st time was an student production on the UC Berkeley Campus. There was no stage or seats we just stood around and watched in a court yard.)
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Othello
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew (I saw this as Shakespeare in the Park production when I was a kid)
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona (I saw an all women production of this at OSF)
The Winter's Tale
I think I've seen at least one of those Henrys as well but I don't remember which one. Maybe there are others I forgot as well.
Italics = film or tv, bold = seen on stage:
All's Well That Ends Well (At OSF)
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It -- ??? I think I saw a production of this but I'm not sure
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost (I've seen this a couple of time no, but the 1st time was an student production on the UC Berkeley Campus. There was no stage or seats we just stood around and watched in a court yard.)
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Othello
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew (I saw this as Shakespeare in the Park production when I was a kid)
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona (I saw an all women production of this at OSF)
The Winter's Tale
I think I've seen at least one of those Henrys as well but I don't remember which one. Maybe there are others I forgot as well.
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Date: 2019-08-07 06:22 pm (UTC)Do you like filmed stage productions? (maybe you're already counting those as movies)
If you want (movie) recs for the ones that you haven't seen in either form (or movies to, IMO, avoid like the plague, let me know.
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Date: 2019-08-07 11:50 pm (UTC)I'd happy take your recs on what to watch and not watch in terms of Shakespeare movies, but I don't often have time to watch a whole movie so it might be a until I get to them.
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Date: 2019-08-09 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-09 05:21 pm (UTC)David Tennant's Hamlet. I dislike the Ophelia in this (the actor is in several RSC productions and I don't like her in any of them), but Tennant and Patrick Stewart (Claudius) make up for her in spades. Here's his TBoNTB soliloquy from it. SO GOOD.
David Tennant & Catherine Tate's Much Ado. The only production I've seen that sets the play in modern times and manages to make the virgin issue somewhat believable. Phenomenal physical acting in this.
Hugh Quarshie and Lucian Msamati's Othello. The RSC's first black Iago (Msamati), and the only production of Othello I've ever seen where I really believed he and Desdemona were in love.
Tom Hiddleston's Coriolanus absolutely lived up to the hype. The costuming alone is amazeballs.
In the movie-type filming productions:
The BBC's Hollow Crown series is fantastic. I haven't seen the Henry VI with Sophie Okonedo but it's on the list of See Soon.
Ian McKellan's Richard III is so good. SO GOOD. I actually own it on DVD.
Julie Taymor's Titus is on my To Watch list, too, but avoid her Tempest. Even Helen Mirren can't save this show. Taymor somehow managed to make the play even more racist than the text already is and I just...ugh. So bad.
Also terrible is the Michael Fassbender Marion Cotillard Macbeth. The most dispassionate, bloodless production of that play I've ever seen. I still can't believe I watched the whole thing. I will never get those two hours back.
If I think of any more from either category, I'll report back!
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Date: 2019-08-09 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-09 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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