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Cocytus
02/23/24 11:19:14 AM
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I'd say Macbeth.

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R1masher
02/23/24 11:20:38 AM
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Probably The Tempest

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Cocytus
02/23/24 11:22:43 AM
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Hamlet would be my second.

To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To dieto sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dreamay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pausethere's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.


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Spurner
02/23/24 11:26:03 AM
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R1masher posted...
Probably The Tempest

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Bishop_Hastur
02/23/24 11:27:50 AM
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The Comedy of Errors.

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viewmaster_pi
02/23/24 11:27:53 AM
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the one with the heart in the floor

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ai123
02/23/24 11:29:47 AM
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Another vote for The Tempest.

Maybe King Lear.

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PraxagoraKassan
02/23/24 11:30:30 AM
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King Lear but Hamlet is good too... eat your hamlet

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C_Pain
02/23/24 11:37:59 AM
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I never really cared for them in school because I didn't understand and needed one of those SparkNotes versions that translates into modern english. I kind of like Henry the fifth was it?

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Cocytus
02/23/24 11:41:09 AM
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viewmaster_pi posted...
the one with the heart in the floor
That's Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

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Cocytus
02/23/24 11:42:14 AM
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ai123 posted...
Another vote for The Tempest.

Maybe King Lear.

PraxagoraKassan posted...
King Lear but Hamlet is good too... eat your hamlet
King Lear is good too.

"Nothing comes from nothing"

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Cocytus
02/23/24 11:42:58 AM
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I don't remember The Tempest that well =\

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ai123
02/23/24 11:46:25 AM
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Cocytus posted...
I don't remember The Tempest that well =\

https://youtu.be/kAZKIpWGN_Q

Cannot recommend The Animated Tales highly enough.


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Cocytus
02/23/24 11:53:01 AM
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ai123 posted...
https://youtu.be/kAZKIpWGN_Q

Cannot recommend The Animated Tales highly enough.
Cool thanks. I'll check it out once I get off work.

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viewmaster_pi
02/23/24 11:57:29 AM
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Cocytus posted...
That's Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart
oh right, right

then phantom of the opera

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Cocytus
02/23/24 11:58:32 AM
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viewmaster_pi posted...
oh right, right

then phantom of the opera
lol, that's Gaston Leroux.

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PraxagoraKassan
02/23/24 12:01:00 PM
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Cocytus posted...
King Lear is good too.

"Nothing comes from nothing"
Edmund is... base!

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Westernwolf4
02/23/24 12:03:01 PM
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Hamlet. That was the play where Shakespeare really clicked for me.

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viewmaster_pi
02/23/24 12:04:37 PM
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every man in his humor!

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ai123
02/23/24 12:11:11 PM
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viewmaster_pi posted...
every man in his humor!
You're getting closer!

Westernwolf4 posted...
Hamlet. That was the play where Shakespeare really clicked for me.

Here's the Hamlet Animated Tales. It's exceptional.

https://youtu.be/OtNMjZoZNbM

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SpawnShadow
02/23/24 12:18:28 PM
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Loved Macbeth. Thought Romeo and Juliet was really overrated, though overall still good. Haven't yet read or seen any of the others.
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Hejiru
02/23/24 12:23:16 PM
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Hamlet

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Cocytus
02/23/24 12:37:26 PM
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ai123 posted...
You're getting closer!

Here's the Hamlet Animated Tales. It's exceptional.

https://youtu.be/OtNMjZoZNbM
Cool. Do they have one for Macbeth?

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Cocytus
02/23/24 12:38:59 PM
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viewmaster_pi posted...
every man in his humor
Ben Johnson

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ai123
02/23/24 12:40:13 PM
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Cocytus posted...
Cool. Do they have one for Macbeth?

https://youtu.be/qfnUq2_0FOY

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nocturnal_traveler
02/23/24 12:40:23 PM
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A Midsummer Nights Dream.

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Cocytus
02/23/24 12:40:49 PM
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ai123 posted...
https://youtu.be/qfnUq2_0FOY
Thanks

nocturnal_traveler posted...
A Midsummer Nights Dream.
It's pretty good.

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Freddie_Mercury
02/23/24 1:28:10 PM
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nocturnal_traveler posted...
A Midsummer Nights Dream.


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Alles-Losen
02/23/24 1:31:02 PM
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Hamlet. Its just such a good vampire epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOAPEbEIwIw

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ItsNotA2Mer
02/23/24 1:33:04 PM
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nocturnal_traveler posted...
A Midsummer Nights Dream.


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Kaldrenthebold
02/23/24 1:33:11 PM
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Do you bite your thumb at me ser?

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Cocytus
02/23/24 1:39:03 PM
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Alles-Losen posted...
Hamlet. Its just such a good vampire epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOAPEbEIwIw
Vampires?

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Cocytus
02/23/24 1:39:31 PM
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Kaldrenthebold posted...
Do you bite your thumb at me ser?
I do bite my thumb but not at you ser!

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Kaldrenthebold
02/23/24 1:50:35 PM
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Cocytus posted...
I do bite my thumb but not at you ser!

Do you bite your thumb at us, ser?

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Cocytus
02/23/24 1:57:42 PM
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Kaldrenthebold posted...
Do you bite your thumb at us, ser?
Do you quarrel, ser?

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Kaldrenthebold
02/23/24 2:08:59 PM
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Cocytus posted...
Do you quarrel, ser?

This exchange is honestly one of the funniest I've read, it just cracks me up so much.

Sampson
Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;
which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.

Abraham
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

Sampson
I do bite my thumb, sir.

Abraham
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

Sampson
[Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say
ay?

Gregory
No.

Sampson
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I
bite my thumb, sir.

Gregory
Do you quarrel, sir?

Abraham
Quarrel sir! no, sir.

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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
02/23/24 2:12:02 PM
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Kaldrenthebold posted...
Do you bite your thumb at me ser?

Rise up! Rise up, I say! Rise up, and stab them with your spoons!


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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
02/23/24 2:13:56 PM
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Speaking of, I miss Dan Vs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPqRoFbPJA


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Cocytus
02/23/24 2:38:45 PM
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Kaldrenthebold posted...
This exchange is honestly one of the funniest I've read, it just cracks me up so much.

Sampson
Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;
which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.

Abraham
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

Sampson
I do bite my thumb, sir.

Abraham
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

Sampson
[Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say
ay?

Gregory
No.

Sampson
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I
bite my thumb, sir.

Gregory
Do you quarrel, sir?

Abraham
Quarrel sir! no, sir.
Hehehe, yeah I like it too. They did it really well in the movie version that has Leo D.

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JlM
02/23/24 2:41:24 PM
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Tempest is the only one I really know a damn thing about/have read.

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Xenogears15
02/23/24 2:42:25 PM
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Othello and Julius Ceasar. I want to say "that Scottish play", but it's fucking cursed.

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Cocytus
02/23/24 2:43:21 PM
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Xenogears15 posted...
Othello and Julius Ceasar. I want to say "that Scottish play", but it's fucking cursed.
Othello is cool.

Julius Ceasar is meh imho.

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Xenogears15
02/23/24 2:48:49 PM
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Cocytus posted...
Othello is cool.

Julius Ceasar is meh imho.

I think it was the version that I saw of Julius Ceasar, and the theatre I saw it in: it was a black box-like theater, so a very small crowd right close and personal with the actors. Also had a slightly more "modern" take on it, I think? It's hard to describe, but it was marketed to Millenial hogh school kids. I ended up liking it.

Honestly, I think Othello is one of the greatest plays ever. The racial overtones are really hard to ignore, too, and I think that in today's world it's just as pertinent--if not moreso--than it was in the 16th century.

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Cocytus
02/23/24 2:50:29 PM
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Xenogears15 posted...
I think it was the version that I saw of Julius Ceasar, and the theatre I saw it in: it was a black box-like theater, so a very small crowd right close and personal with the actors. Also had a slightly more "modern" take on it, I think? It's hard to describe, but it was marketed to Millenial hogh school kids. I ended up liking it.

Honestly, I think Othello is one of the greatest plays ever. The racial overtones are really hard to ignore, too, and I think that in today's world it's just as pertinent--if not moreso--than it was in the 16th century.
Yeah definitely.

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Robot2600
02/23/24 3:10:10 PM
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Hamlet but

King Lear
Othello
Antony & Cleopatra
MacBeth
Twelfth Night

are all next level.


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Westernwolf4
02/23/24 7:00:48 PM
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ai123 posted...
You're getting closer!

Here's the Hamlet Animated Tales. It's exceptional.

https://youtu.be/OtNMjZoZNbM

I have never seen this! Thank you!


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