The Greatest Shakespeare Play?

For comedy: A Midsummer Night's Dream

For tragedy: Romeo and Juliet

For true story (with poetic licence): Henry V

Has to be Macbeth or The Tempest for me.

Not really keen on film adaptations, I love the theatre!

I had to study Romeo & Juliette at school, I've seen a lots. Hamlet, MacBeth, King Lear, Taming of the Shrew, Richard III.

Both live and film versions. My preference is the live performance.

We visited Shakespeare's birthplace a few years ago, and the had actors reciting his plays, you call out a play and they did a scene, it was amazing as they did some obscure stuff.

I don't think I could say what my favourite is

It depends on the production of course. We were lucky to have the RSC come to my daughter's school and they did Henry VI. I knew nothing about it but I was mesmerised. It was helped by having a drummer with an oiled chest!

I like Macbeth the best

We did several at school and always took parts as we read them. My starring role was as The Hole in the Wall in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

We had to study Julius Caesar which I hated while we were reading it through but once we got to see it at Stratford it did bring it alive and I enjoyed it for a while. The only trouble is that having to study the text of a play just destroys any enjoyment you might have got from it. I used to enjoy reading, poetry and a few Shakespeare plays - then I somehow managed to scrape a pass at GCE O Level and have hardly read a book since. It was even worse when we had to study Dickens for the same exam. Great Expectations - try taking an English Literature exam when you have only read less that 10% of the actual book!

I studied Othello at school, which I enjoyed, although I didn't think the t.v. adaptation was that good.

I taught a Shakespeare unit when I was covering an English class for a term and we did Midsummer night's dream and Romeo and Juliet. The pupils really enjoyed it, although they found some parts of midsummer night's dream a little ridiculous.

I was put off Shakespeare for life in school so none

I live just up the road from Anne Hathaway’s cottage and have spent my life having Shakespeare rammed down my throat and due to that I have no interest in his work !