Caliban of Sycorax Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 (edited) Why not, right? I Don't Care Everyone Knows These, They're Still the Best for Many Reasons Tier Hamlet Macbeth God Tier Coriolanus Julius Caesar Richard III The Tempest High Tier Titus Andronicus King Lear The Taming of the Shrew Henry IV, Part 1 Middle Tier Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It A Midsummer Night's Dream Henry V The Comedy of Errors Much Ado About Nothing The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Winsdor The Winter's Tale The Two Noble Kinsmen Low Tier Timon of Athens Cymbeline Henry VIII Othello Troilus and Cressida Pericles, Prince of Tyre Love's Labour's Lost All's Well That Ends Well The Two Gentlemen of Verona Measure for Measure Twelfth Night Bottom Tier Richard II Henry VI, Part 3 Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI, Part 2 Romeo and Juliet Henry IV, Part 2 Edited May 16, 2013 by Hamlet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 You're missing Othello. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vashiane Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Agh, I love Much Ado About Nothing. Slight disappoint. But other than that - and the lack of Othello - I approve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliban of Sycorax Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share Posted May 15, 2013 Whoops. I had it and then I didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grace Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 (edited) honestly othello needs to go up, at least to bottom of mid imo it's pretty solid and has some great themes, but is let down by the ending dsiclaimer: it's been 3 years since i read it so Edited May 15, 2013 by Manix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrhesia Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Two Gentlemen of Verona for somewhere in low tier because of ... well, have you seen Act Five? Act Five is a thing. In it. Things happen in Act Five of Two Gentlemen of Verona. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliban of Sycorax Posted May 15, 2013 Author Share Posted May 15, 2013 God damn it. I had Two Gentlemen, then I didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florete Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing so far above Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night? Dafuq is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacLovin Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Where's Banzai? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrhesia Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 I defend your choice for Romeo and Juliet, but Midsummer Night is made of even greater/lesser trash tier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.M. Gei Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 good night, sweet prince Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliban of Sycorax Posted May 16, 2013 Author Share Posted May 16, 2013 (edited) A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing so far above Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night? Dafuq is this? Twelfth Night is a copy of As You Like It with worse comedy. And some of the scenes DRAG on. I didn't make it lower because the ending's actually cool and the implied homoeroticism of Antonio is hilarious. Midsummer is one of his two plays that's completely original. Not the best (Tempest is leagues better) but it's not horrible. Puck and the fairies are brilliant, as is the re-enactment of Pyramus and Thisbe. edit: Okay, maybe I'm making it out to be much better than it is. The fact that it's original does give it credit over the other comedies, especially since the rest of them are re-used plot points. Romeo and Juliet... I can't begin to list my issues with it. The only play worse is Henry IV Part II and that's because it should have never been written to begin with. Edited May 16, 2013 by Hamlet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeraldfox Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 I thought Hamlet was a comedy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psych Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 more like everything is a comedy because 16th century english lit amirite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 (edited) Hamlet is the best Shakespeare play, I would never even contest that point, but I've never read it.Or I did, but I was like 7-10 and barely understood what was happening. I love how high you have Titus Andronicus.I like R+J in terms of how I see it as interacting with Pyramus and Thisbe, but I don't really know Shakespeare, or even plays, very well in general, so I don't think my opinion counts. Edited May 19, 2013 by SeverIan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyron Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 Personal preference but i prefer macbeth to hamlet other than that i think romeo and juliet should go up soley becuase almost everyone know it exists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriemhild Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 I am liking most of this list, but I still think Twelfth Night shouldn't be THAT low. I would also personally put Macbeth above Hamlet but eh, they're both at the top so no objections there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caliban of Sycorax Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Personal preference but i prefer macbeth to hamlet other than that i think romeo and juliet should go up soley becuase almost everyone know it exists Romeo and Juliet is awful. It doesn't matter that everyone knows it, it's a horrible play. Horribly written, horrible plot, there's very few things that are actually good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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