I would highly recommend A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. I just finished it in my literature class and loved the main character Nora's character development throughout the play. I also just read A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and loved that as well. Thanks for the recommendations, nearly no one i know likes plays so it was nice to add some to the TBR.
I haven't read many plays but some of these sound really interesting so I'll check them out sometime. We did read Macbeth in high school and I actually really liked that one. The only other ones I've read have been Stephen King screenplays.
I love reading plays, and I agree that it's an easy medium to read in. When I do creative writing it's usually in a play or script like format, it's just a really easy and comfortable thing. I haven't read 12th Night, but I used to love She's The Man, a movie with Amanda Bynes, which I guess is an adaptation. I definitely want to read more plays, thank you for the recommendations!
+Paper Faerie She's The Man is hilarious! My friend also showed me a Bollywood movie that's based off of She's the Man (and also Twelfth Night) and that one was also really great!
I highly recommended Catholic School Girls, it's a drama but it has a lot of comedic elements in it I discovered it when I was looking for a scene to perform for my state's district thespian festival during my senior year of high school and fell in love along with a giant portion of girls from my drama class since it was one of the few plays we could find with an all female cast
I am intrigued that there i a character named Wendla because that was my great great aunt's name. She lived down the street from me growing up. Her family was from Finland though.
I love reading plays too. My favourites are any play by Oscar Wilde, Hamlet, The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett, Macbeth, The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe & Moelwyn Merchant. Great topic. 😄
Plays are good. I've read MacBeth, Othello, King Lear by Shakespeare, An Inspector Calls by JB Priestly, and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. I enjoyed them all.
Sure :)! I studied all of them in school. Arcadia has time travel from what I remember anyway and An Inspector Calls is a murder mystery type scenario,
So happy to see a favorite plays video from someone else! I did one as one of my first booktube videos, and I felt kind of silly because I hadn't seen anyone else do one. Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead is one of my favorites, too. And the names in Spring Awakening are pronounced Vendla and Melkeeyor, if writing them down phonetically really does anything to help.
i would also really recommend neil labute's work- it's SOOOO dark but amazing!!!i also had the pleasure of meeting him and talking to him about writing, as a play i wrote won a contest he was running. despite the incredibly dark material of his plays he was such a kind and cool person to talk to. my fave plays besides spring awakening are probably romeo and juliet (iKNOW OK), hamlet and as you like it (which i was in!)
+sydney c I still need to read As You Like It! I've wanted to for a long time now! And thank you for the recommendation, I'll definitely check some of his work out!!
So exciting to find someone else who loves plays! +Jen Hugs Books Recommended you to me. Love Oscar Wilde agree hilarious to read - even better on stage. I just made a video recommending some modern plays for people to get into - I think you'd really enjoy Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things. xx
+The Garden of Readin' Awww Jen is so sweet! Yes! I completely agree that Wilde is even better on stage. His plays are so unbelievably hilarious when brought to life. Ahh that's wonderful, i'll go check your video out now!
i love twelth night!! btw, the sa characters names are pronounced: vendla, mel-key-or, more-ritz. i've been meaning to read rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, oh my goshh. i love hamlet sm and r&g are great.
I never realized how many modern movies or ever older ones are based on Shakespeare's plays until my teacher showed us when I was 11. the only Shakespeare plays I've studied are a midsummer night's dream which I performed in drama when I was also 11 and Macbeth which I just studied in English last year but coming from London I still love Shakespeare
We recently read The Importance of Being Earnest in AP Lit and I agree- it was so funny and I loved it! It’s awesome that you played Gwendolen! I definitely recommend As You Like It, one of Shakespeare’s comedies that also is about identity and its soo great! I was recently in a musical edition of it Omar my high school which was such an amazing experience!
I would highly recommend A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. I just finished it in my literature class and loved the main character Nora's character development throughout the play. I also just read A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and loved that as well. Thanks for the recommendations, nearly no one i know likes plays so it was nice to add some to the TBR.
+Ashley Soklevski Ahhh thank you so much! I'll definitely be checking A Doll's House, I just looked it up and it sounds really interesting!
I agree -- A Doll's House is very good! It's a great early feminist work.
I haven't read many plays but some of these sound really interesting so I'll check them out sometime. We did read Macbeth in high school and I actually really liked that one. The only other ones I've read have been Stephen King screenplays.
I love reading plays, and I agree that it's an easy medium to read in. When I do creative writing it's usually in a play or script like format, it's just a really easy and comfortable thing.
I haven't read 12th Night, but I used to love She's The Man, a movie with Amanda Bynes, which I guess is an adaptation.
I definitely want to read more plays, thank you for the recommendations!
+Paper Faerie She's The Man is hilarious! My friend also showed me a Bollywood movie that's based off of She's the Man (and also Twelfth Night) and that one was also really great!
I highly recommended Catholic School Girls, it's a drama but it has a lot of comedic elements in it I discovered it when I was looking for a scene to perform for my state's district thespian festival during my senior year of high school and fell in love along with a giant portion of girls from my drama class since it was one of the few plays we could find with an all female cast
I am intrigued that there i a character named Wendla because that was my great great aunt's name. She lived down the street from me growing up. Her family was from Finland though.
I love reading plays too. My favourites are any play by Oscar Wilde, Hamlet, The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett, Macbeth, The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe & Moelwyn Merchant. Great topic. 😄
+Carolyn Storer Ahhh thank you so much! I'll definitely check those out! :D
Plays are good. I've read MacBeth, Othello, King Lear by Shakespeare, An Inspector Calls by JB Priestly, and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. I enjoyed them all.
+sakurahan91 ohhh I haven't heard of those last two! I'll check them out, thank you :D
Sure :)! I studied all of them in school. Arcadia has time travel from what I remember anyway and An Inspector Calls is a murder mystery type scenario,
sakurahan91 yeessssss! Murder mysteries are my faveeee
I love reading plays too ! my favourite is Art by Yasmina Réza :)
So happy to see a favorite plays video from someone else! I did one as one of my first booktube videos, and I felt kind of silly because I hadn't seen anyone else do one.
Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead is one of my favorites, too.
And the names in Spring Awakening are pronounced Vendla and Melkeeyor, if writing them down phonetically really does anything to help.
Ahhh I love finding other play lovers! 😊😊 And thank you! I'm terrible at pronouncing names in general loll
If I hadn't been a German major and spent tons of time reading about people with crazy German names, I'd have no clue either.
i would also really recommend neil labute's work- it's SOOOO dark but amazing!!!i also had the pleasure of meeting him and talking to him about writing, as a play i wrote won a contest he was running. despite the incredibly dark material of his plays he was such a kind and cool person to talk to.
my fave plays besides spring awakening are probably romeo and juliet (iKNOW OK), hamlet and as you like it (which i was in!)
+sydney c I still need to read As You Like It! I've wanted to for a long time now! And thank you for the recommendation, I'll definitely check some of his work out!!
So exciting to find someone else who loves plays! +Jen Hugs Books Recommended you to me. Love Oscar Wilde agree hilarious to read - even better on stage. I just made a video recommending some modern plays for people to get into - I think you'd really enjoy Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things. xx
+The Garden of Readin' Awww Jen is so sweet! Yes! I completely agree that Wilde is even better on stage. His plays are so unbelievably hilarious when brought to life. Ahh that's wonderful, i'll go check your video out now!
I'd never heard of that first story from Shakespeare, but it MUST have been the inspiration for the movie She's the man!
I love plays, thank you so much for the suggestions :)
+iliveinwonderland Of course 😊 Happy to recommend anytime! Maybe once I read a few more I'll do a part two!
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i love twelth night!! btw, the sa characters names are pronounced: vendla, mel-key-or, more-ritz. i've been meaning to read rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, oh my goshh. i love hamlet sm and r&g are great.
+sydney c Thank you so much! I knew I was pronouncing them wrong! :D
I never realized how many modern movies or ever older ones are based on Shakespeare's plays until my teacher showed us when I was 11. the only Shakespeare plays I've studied are a midsummer night's dream which I performed in drama when I was also 11 and Macbeth which I just studied in English last year but coming from London I still love Shakespeare
+Annah Yesss spread the Shakespeare love
+A Clockwork Reader every time I see your channel, you have more and more subscribers 👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌
my favourite plays are ghosts and macbeth
Great recommendation
+monica book lover Thank you :D
We recently read The Importance of Being Earnest in AP Lit and I agree- it was so funny and I loved it! It’s awesome that you played Gwendolen! I definitely recommend As You Like It, one of Shakespeare’s comedies that also is about identity and its soo great! I was recently in a musical edition of it Omar my high school which was such an amazing experience!
This video was great!
It's soooo cool you're an actress too!
+BOOKflix Thank you!! :)