Which are his best works?

Yeah, it's you.

how's high school going buddy? did you impress that girl yet with your preference for ~dark~ and ~deep~ works? have your classmates finally recognized you for the tortured genius you are?

I'm super horny right now.
Which is the best Shakespeare play to fap to?
Titus?

othello

the correct answer is to look to his poems

venus and adonis

With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,
The precedent of pith and livelihood,
And trembling in her passion, calls it balm,
Earth's sovereign salve to do a goddess good:
Being so enraged, desire doth lend her force
Courageously to pluck him from his horse.
Over one arm the lusty courser's rein,
Under her other was the tender boy,
Who blush'd and pouted in a dull disdain,
With leaden appetite, unapt to toy;
She red and hot as coals of glowing fire,
He red for shame, but frosty in desire.
The studded bridle on a ragged bough
Nimbly she fastens:--O, how quick is love!--
The steed is stalled up, and even now
To tie the rider she begins to prove:
Backward she push'd him, as she would be thrust,
And govern'd him in strength, though not in lust.
So soon was she along as he was down,
Each leaning on their elbows and their hips:
Now doth she stroke his cheek, now doth he frown,
And 'gins to chide, but soon she stops his lips;
And kissing speaks, with lustful language broken,
'If thou wilt chide, thy lips shall never open.'
He burns with bashful shame: she with her tears
Doth quench the maiden burning of his cheeks;
Then with her windy sighs and golden hairs
To fan and blow them dry again she seeks:
He saith she is immodest, blames her 'miss;
What follows more she murders with a kiss.
Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast,
Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh and bone,
Shaking her wings, devouring all in haste,
Till either gorge be stuff'd or prey be gone;
Even so she kissed his brow, his cheek, his chin,
And where she ends she doth anew begin.
Forced to content, but never to obey,
Panting he lies and breatheth in her face;
She feedeth on the steam as on a prey,
And calls it heavenly moisture, air of grace;
Wishing her cheeks were gardens full of flowers,
So they were dew'd with such distilling showers.

>doesn't like as you like it

Best is Hamlet, worst is Titus Andronicus, doesn't matter how orthodox and boring that is

>heyy amigo what should I shake my speare to
>the correct answer is to look to his narrative poems
>>FOR EXAMPLE VENUS AND ADONIS

jesus christ how can you choose the wrong one when there are only two of them

>Best
Othello
>Worst
The Winter's Tale

fite me

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Marlow was a contemporary of Shakespeare who no one outside of academia remembers or cares about.
Its a joke mate

Get fucked, the first two acts of The Winter's Tale are brilliant

You put way too much anger into this post, someone that emotional can only be in high school and didn't get the girl through the 'dark' and 'deep works'. Nice try kiddo, I'll still be stealing your lunch money.

>defending someone who thinks Shakespeare's comedies are bad

wew lad

>>worst
>none of them
lol

pleb

the tempest is an ironic tragicomedy

bard tier:
the sonnets
merchant of venice
othello
king lear
hamlet

good:
winter’s tale
merry wives
all’s well
coriolanus
henry v
as you like it
the tempest
julius caesar
henry iv, pt. 1
titus andronicus
richard iii
macbeth
romeo and juliet (read as a comedy)

ok:
antony and cleo
henry vi, pt. 2,3
henry iv, pt. 2
richard ii
king john
measure for measure
troilus and cressida
twelfth night
midsummer night’s dream
romeo and juliet (read as a tragedy)

bad:
henry vi, pt. 1
pericles
edward ii
comedy of errors
taming of the shrew

haven’t read:
rape of lurece
love’s labor’s lost
henry viii
timon of athens
a lover’s complaint

probably missed a couple but that is all you need to know

>Any of his comedies.
As You Like It is fucking hilarious.
It ends with Shakespeare trolling his audience into not clapping when the play is over.

Yeah but the mid half are boring shit.
>starts off completely tragic
>ah it's a comedy, whatever you know?

>Troilus and Cressida only OK

It's a fucking masterpiece of trolling, what's wrong with you?

Are there any good analyses of his plays anyone would recommend?

As far as I know, Harold Bloom wrote on all of them in Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

Other than Bloom, obviously.

I know there's some famous critic that gave a new interpretation of one of his sonnets along with detailed analyses, but I can't for the life of me remember who it was.
He was considered one of the best critics of all times.

> it wasn't as he liked it

How is Titus Andronicus any way bad? It's terrifyingly brutal.

>Best
Lear
Othello
Tempest
Macbeth

>Worst
Most of the comedies but especially:
Love's Labour
As You like It

And special consideration for the crap plays of Timon of Athens and Troilus and Cressida

>Titus Andronicus

Did you, by chance, mean Timon of Athens? Because Timon is his least performed play and for good fucking reason too.

Why do you fell As You Like It is shit?

>Best
Macbeth
>Worst
I don't know, one of the shit ones he squeezed out to pay for the plays he actually cared about.

see:

>going full sincere with a garbage list

the sad part is you probably consider yourself really intelligent and well read

Just finished Titus Andronicus and fuck, that was ace. I fucking loved it.

> Titus' daughter gets raped, tongue cut out and hands cut off
> Titus' sons unfairly executed, he's gifted their heads
> Black guy fucks the empress
> empress eats her sons that have been baked in a pie by Titus

Is there more Shakespeare plays that match this level of violence and brutality?

>>>/reddit/

In what world is Henry IV pt. 2 better than part 1? Henry IV pt. 1 is also better than Henry V

>the sonnets
All of them?

Why is Titus Andronicus reddit-tier, user?

lol

There's only one good one out of the first ten or so.

I don't know why but this is one of the few times >>>/reddit/ has made me genuinely lol. Thanks for that.

I can never respect anyone who would call 1HenryIV bad. What the fuck

Underrated post.

Best: Hamlet
Worst: none especially really, though Titus was not well liked.