I’ve got a few more posts coming up in the Best of the Bard
series, including my favorite plays and a post about what I learned from this
experience. For today, I wanted to have a little fun by providing the list of
plays and then assigning each of them a “Most likely to…” award. Let me know
what you think and what awards you would give your favorite plays!
The
Tempest Most likely to sing a dirge at a karaoke party
A
Midsummer Night’s Dream Most likely to make you laugh if you see it on
stage
Taming of the Shrew
Most likely to make sexist tools guffaw stupidly
Comedy
of Errors Most likely to get a cheap laugh
As You Like It Most likely to be your BFF
Twelfth
Night Most likely to give you whiplash
Two
Noble Kinsmen Most likely to make you fall asleep
Measure
for Measure Most likely to require parental guidance
Love’s Labour Lost Most likely to love slapstick
The
Two Gentlemen of Verona Most likely to send you snail mail
The Merry Wives of Windsor Most likely to be set in the 1950s
Much Ado About Nothing Most likely to be a roller coaster
The Merchant of Venice Most likely to make you
uncomfortable
All’s
Well That Ends Well Most likely to make you tear your hair out
The
Winter’s Tale Most likely to surprise you in a good way
Titus
Andronicus Most likely to surprise you in a bad way
Pericles
Most likely to aspire to Greek tragedy
King John Most likely to make you grateful not to have
children
Richard II Most likely to make you fall in love with
language
Henry
IV Part 1 Most likely to feel ALL THE FEELS
Henry
IV Part 2 Most likely to make you cry unexpectedly
Henry
V Most likely to swell your heart with patriotism
Henry
VI Part 1, 2, and 3 Most likely to make you question patriotism
Richard
III Most likely to make you grateful you are not royalty
Henry
VIII Most likely to increase your gratitude of the 21st century
Macbeth
Most likely to give you shivers
Romeo and Juliet Most
likely to refresh feelings of teenage angst
Cymbeline
Most likely to be mispronounced
Troilus
and Cressida Most likely to be awkward
King
Lear Most likely to lessen parental guilt
Julius Caesar Most likely to elicit unintended laughs
Othello Most likely to keep you single
Timon
of Athens Most likely to be underappreciated
Coriolanus
Most likely to be forgotten
Antony and Cleopatra Most likely to be a drama queen
Hamlet
Most likely TO BE
