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What is the best Shakespeare play and why?

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I want to surprise my partner with a trip to the Globe Theatre and don't know which Shakespeare play to see.....Can you help me choose please!!!??

Out of these...

Merry Wives of Windsor

King Lear

A Winter's Tale

Timon of Athens

A Midsummer Night's Dream

We enjoy comedy and action - in that order....any suggestions??

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From that selection, a Midsummer Night's Dream, for the comedy. It's a bit more seasonal than a Winter's Tale.
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King Lear because it has most comedy and action
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midsummer nights dream ^-^ coz it is so random hehe
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merry wives of windsor : from a distance one may see the humor of the matter from a better prospective. read riding the iron rooster by paul theroux.

Ex. The Mongolias of China had lived in huts over the past centuries. The government saw fit to give these people a chance at life by suppling them with one and two bedroom apartments. About two years later the officials returned to find the people had their own place with family and pigs, ducks and chickens running freely throughout the floors of the building. Not funny very historic.

whereas a midsummer nights dream is of more satiric flavor, that being one man's opinion.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

good story

good humour if you find shakespeare funny....

& i've never read the others
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Twelfth Night.
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BEST is probably relative, subjective, and in a POLL sense, opinionated. I happen to most enjoy "12th Night", but isn't on your list
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They're all great! Your choice ultimately depends on the mood or theme: romance, comedy, existential tragedy, a combination...

King Lear is not a comedy... in fact a Shakespearean English professor that I had said that one only completely understands King Lear after one arrives to their 40s.

Here's a list of Shakespearean comedies:

    * All's Well That Ends Well

    * As You Like It

    * The Comedy of Errors

    * Cymbeline

    * Love's Labour's Lost

    * Measure for Measure

    * The Merchant of Venice

    * The Merry Wives of Windsor

    * A Midsummer Night's Dream

    * Much Ado About Nothing

    * Pericles Prince of Tyre

    * Taming of the Shrew

    * The Tempest

    * Twelfth Night

    * The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    * The Winter's Tale
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