Shakespeare's Plays?

Question:What is for you the most beautiful Shakespeare's play and why?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: What is for you the most beautiful Shakespeare's play and why?

The thing about Shakespeare is that it is a life long love affair. Every new production brings the words to life. And as I get older I find new beauty in the plays and sonnets.

Henry V, Lots of dead frenchies

merchant of venice weird story line

I completely agree with SME up here. All of Shakespeare's plays are beautiful in equal measure. I mean, they all exude such uniqueness and thought. The amount of life he describes is simply phenomenal...

Hamlet stands out particularly because of Polonius`s advice to Laertes.

"And these few precepts in they memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou has and their adoption tried. grapple to thy soul with hoops of steel; but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new hatched, unfledg`d comrade.
Beware of entry to a quarrel; but being in, bear`t that the opposed may beware of thee
Give every man thine ear but few thy voice
Take each man`s censure but reserve thy judgement.
Costly thy habit as thy purse caan buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy for the apparel oft proclaims the man;
and they in France of the best rank and station are most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry;
This above all,- to thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell, myblessing season this in thee"

Macbeth or The Tempest(Dark atmosphere).

Romeo and Juliet. So Romantic ='[

I don't know that's it's beautiful, but my fav is Taming of the Shrew

I agree that each is beautiful in its own way and that even "bad" Shakespeare is often better than good (insert any number of modernplaywrights here: Caryl Churchill, Tina Howe, etc.). And part of the beauty of the plays is in the doing of them; reading them sitting down is cheating yourself of so much of the enjoyment of getting up and doing them -- crying, slapping people, stabbing people, kissing people.

That said, I have had beautiful experiences with Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and Much Ado... and would very much like to do a production of Winter's Tale. When the statue comes to life at the end, it is just a three-hanky moment for everyone with a beatng heart in the crowd.