#but ESPECIALLY midsummer and the tempest. and those two still are just. immovably special to me
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i will never stop thinking about the winter's tale i will always be thinking about the winter's tale i will always be loving the winter's tale
#i will always be exiting pursued by a bear#tales from diana#text post#shakespeare#the winter's tale#for the longest time (and even still now) (but since i was a teenager) i used to say i had 3 firm favorite shakespeare plays#a midsummer night's dream / the tempest / antony and cleopatra#but ESPECIALLY midsummer and the tempest. and those two still are just. immovably special to me#i love every word in those plays i love every plot element. i love how they're two of shakespeare's original plots!#i love the imagination i love the metatheater i love the themes and takeaways i love the characters#but as i get older. alas i simply do not have three favorite shakespeare plays i have like 14#also relevant to how i read the wars of the roses tetralogy years ago but i cannot stop talking about them in 2023.#i have to be honest. i LOVED those plays as i read them but bc i was like 'well they dont top my favorites' i didnt think of them *as* that#but really what is it to have a favorite anyway? a rose by any other name would smell as sweet#on my first readings. my top 3 were my favorites that i had ever read (altho i had only read so many by then!)#i have now read most of shakespeare's plays. most of the great ones are not so obviously far behind those which i felt a sentimental#attachment to at an adolescent age.#i really cant imagine what the tempest or a midsummer night's dream would be like to me if i read them for the first time now as an adult#i bet id still love them! id still find them breathless. i have always been in the habit of rereading passages from them from time to time#enjoying art from them and watching the occasional adaptation etc.#BUT ANYWAY. im really straying from what i was originally going to say now. wow i just realized how much i rambled#i was going to say that i only read the winter's tale last year. when i was quite familiar w shakespeare#but i hadnt been reading him as frequently as i had when i was a teenager. was reading other authors for the first time instead.#the winter's tale was the only shakespeare play i read in 2022 actually#and even in a dry spell for shakespeare i really enjoyed that.#and of course then i went back to other things. but the more time goes by the more i'm like wow. the winter's tale#it really does equal at least the tempest in my mind w how much i enjoy it#also hamlet. i've never thought hamlet was my favorite (though ive always really liked it)#but lately ive read several great plays w similar themes and thought wow this is so good it reminds me of hamlet#(or maybe that's bc hamlet was more influential than say the tempest... well whatever!)
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