Cut the well-crafted dialogues, cut also soliloquies. Cut the costumes, and what even is left of Shakespeare's plays? What plot is this? Everyone either dies or is happy. Then why are teachers SO obsessed with Shakespeare? Shall I compare thee to a cow with a taste for bad hay?
Tell us that one play by Shakespeare you always thought was overhyped and never actually liked, at all! And if you've forgotten these, we have extra-compressed summaries to brush your memory.
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Slap the Shakespearean play you don't like! >.<
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Antony and Cleopatra – Man marries woman2 because he wants to be friends with her brother, but he actually loves woman1. Goes back to woman1, friend man gets mad. Everyone dies. -
Macbeth – Man hears he's going to be king but can't wait. Tells wife, both plan to murder of the original King. Man starts hallucinating, wife goes crazy. Death. Death. Death. -
Twelfth Night – Shipwreck. Girl thinks her brother is dead, boy thinks his sister is dead. Everyone thinks the brother is the sister and the sister is the brother. Story ends happily. -
Hamlet – Boy sees dad's ghost. Decides to kill uncle but wants to kill morally. Pretends to go crazy, actually goes crazy, talks to a skull. Everyone dies. -
A Midsummer Night's Dream – everyone is manipulated and not much makes sense. -
The Tempest – Man has issues with family, decides to do black magic and bind the supernatural, but everyone is happy at the end. -
Romeo and Juliet – Boy sees a beautiful girl and forgets about his recent breakup. Both fall in love but the families hate each other. Boy kills girl's cousin and the girl pretends to be dead. A letter is sent by the girl in the hands of an incapable Friar. Boy thinks girl is really dead, so kills himself. Girl comes ro know this, kills herself. The end. -
The Merchant Of Venice – Man1 asks man2 for a pound of flesh as mortgage, man2 agrees. Things don't work out. Man2's girl cross dresses as his lawyer. Happy ending? -
King Lear – Man divides kingdom, snubs daughter. Everyone dies.
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