A lot of the big Shakespeares--Tempest, Lear, Hamlet--do next to nothing for me. My favourites tend to be the ones with a military edge and a certain potential for a homoerotic reading. Coriolanus and, less obscurely, Henry IV, Part I, Henry V are my absolute faves, though I also adore Much Ado and Troilus. And if I had to choose a late romance, it would be Pericles or Winter's Tale over Tempest every time.
A number of these choices can be put down my own idiosyncratic taste, but a few can also be put down to having a fab drama lecturer in third year who picked all the weird Shakespeare plays to do. Plus, I've seen three killer productions of Coriolanus over the years, with Charles Dance, Michael Pennington and Tom McCamus, and was heartbroken that I hadn't the dosh to get over and see Toby Stephens crack at the character a few years back.
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Date: 2005-08-29 07:21 pm (UTC)A lot of the big Shakespeares--Tempest, Lear, Hamlet--do next to nothing for me. My favourites tend to be the ones with a military edge and a certain potential for a homoerotic reading. Coriolanus and, less obscurely, Henry IV, Part I, Henry V are my absolute faves, though I also adore Much Ado and Troilus. And if I had to choose a late romance, it would be Pericles or Winter's Tale over Tempest every time.
A number of these choices can be put down my own idiosyncratic taste, but a few can also be put down to having a fab drama lecturer in third year who picked all the weird Shakespeare plays to do. Plus, I've seen three killer productions of Coriolanus over the years, with Charles Dance, Michael Pennington and Tom McCamus, and was heartbroken that I hadn't the dosh to get over and see Toby Stephens crack at the character a few years back.