Saturday, January 30, 2016

10 Lesser-Known Shakespeare Plays

10 Lesser-Known Shakespeare Plays

10 comments:

Deb said...

"Lesser-known "? I can tell that guy wasn't an English major! I've read every one of the plays listed in that article and, possibly, PERICLES is the only one that I'd classify as obscure.

mybillcrider said...

I took a couple of Shakespeare courses, so I've read them, too. But to non-English majors there are a lot of obscure plays, I expect.

Deb said...

A favorite anecdote: Many years ago, a friend was trying out for a game show (it wasn't Jeopardy, but it was a show that required some general knowledge and there was a preliminary test). As he was leaving the test area with a group of other potential contestants, my friend heard another contestant say loudly about one of the questions on the test, "I'm glad I'm an actor so I knew that MACBETH is set in England."

mybillcrider said...

That's why it's often referred to as "The English Play."

Dan_Luft said...

He apparently wrote a play about King John and had the audacity to leave out Robin Hood.

mybillcrider said...

Even the greats make mistakes.

Don Coffin said...

I've seen all of those, and most of them more than once. But, then, I had season tickets to Chicago Shakespeare for more than 25 years. Leaving that aside, I don't think it's even plausible to refer to *any* of the Henry plays as "lesser known." Some of them--Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, for example--aren't performed all that often (and, I would say, with a reason). We wound up seeing The Two Gentlemen of Verona twice in two years (once at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, once in Chicago), and that's enough for a lifetime. (The dog in the Stratford production, however, was GREAT.)

mybillcrider said...

You can't miss with a cute dog in the production.

George said...

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA is my favorite Shakespeare play. It's seldom performed. I've only seen it once, but I've read it a dozen times.

mybillcrider said...

I haven't seen many Shakespeare plays produced, but I've seen that one, George. Odd that it would be one of the few.