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Re:My ranking of every Shakespeare play by jfengel on Thursday June 22, 2023 @05:32PM (#36439323)
So much depends on the performance. Some of the comedies make great productions, suitably edited and with the right amount of physical comedy.

Right on the page they are nearly all a slog. The tragedies make better reading.

Re:My ranking of every Shakespeare play by ghaff on Friday June 23, 2023 @02:22PM (#36450476)
There have been some really good productions of the comedies, e.g. Emma Thompson's Much Ado About Nothing. But often as I have seen some of them over the years, the mistaken identities/gender swapping/etc. all sort of blend together for me past some point. (Case in point, when I looked up my example, I originally typed in As You Like It.) I definitely remember the tragedies as more distinct entities.