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Fri 12 Mar, 2004 01:56 pm
It's so difficult to choose. For me, when it came to tragedy, Shakespeare rarely did wrong. From the first play of his that I read-- The Tempest, which I entreated my mother to buy for me when I was ten-- I was hooked.
The first three tragedies that I came across-- Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello-- ironically don't figure in the top of my estimations. For me, his greatest tragedy would either be Hamlet or King Lear: Hamlet for what it says; King Lear for what it doesn't need to say. King Lear manages to get the greatest passion into one word, five times repeated; both are mindblowing. What would you choose?
King Lear, without question. Hamlet bothered me as the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern/Hamlet miraculously is not killed side story seemed a bit of a hackneyed literary device, but that's just a matter of opinion. It has always been Lear for me.
I have a soft spot in my head for Titus Andronicus. Such pain, such sorrow, such vengeance!
My favourite, no matter what, is MacBeth.
I love them all, but I think King Lear is best.
Shakespeare's greatest tragedy?
That damned movie they made about him, Snakeshit in Love . . . puh-leeze . . .
Hey, Set. You'd better brush up your Shakespeare.
As for me, give me Richard three or give me Julius C.
I never really liked Julius Ceasar. I don't know why, but I just can't get into it. I do like Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida, even though they are considered to be marginal plays.
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