Going off the Shakespeare post, I wanna hear the opposite! What are the reasons for the ones you don't like?
I shouldnât say IÂ âdonât likeâ them; itâs more like I wouldnât read them for fun?
Macbeth, for instance, is pretty awesome to teach, but I donât enjoy it reading it myself because every character is unlikable and Lady Macduff should have been the one to kill Macbeth. The only reason Iâm not adamantly holding this grudge is that Tolkien already did and thatâs how we got Eowyn, youâre welcome.
Julius Caesar is pretty cool, but I had a bad experience with it in tenth grade when a teacher I didnât like took way too long with it, so I had to work past those negative associations. Darth Poeticus loves ancient Rome and this play, though, so it gets quoted not infrequently in our apartment. (âMcConnell says Elizabeth Warren was being rude.â âIf it were so, it was a grievous fault! And grievously hath Warren answered it. ... McConnell says so, and McConnell is an honest turtle.â)
Coriolanus was excessively gay and excessively Roman, and both of those things are cool, but itâs just not one of my faves. Darth likes it more than I do.
Allâs Well that Endâs Well and As You Like It I read on my own and havenât studied in-depth, which is probably why they arenât as fascinating to me as some of the others with which Iâm more familiar, but they were perfectly fine and fun. Cymbeline falls in this category too, but I thought it was cuter and it reminded me more of a classic fairy tale, which I think is why Iâm a little more fond of it.
The Comedy of Errors is slapstick humor and a good read on an afternoon with nothing else going on, probably more fun to watch than to read.
The Winterâs Tale is actually really beautiful; I just felt like my list was getting too long  ^^;; Also, Winterâs Tale gifted us with one of the greatest stage directions of all time: âExit, pursued by a bear.â *eternal gratitude*
Titus Andronicus is gloriously gory, bloody, and overdone; I love it. Like Winterâs Tale, it got left off the other post because I thought I was talking too much. Also this play needs, like, every trigger warning ever? Especially poor Laviniaâs tragedy. But hey, Aaron makes a âur momâ joke; those are never not funny, right?
Romeo and Juliet, like, do I need to go into this one? I donât harbor the same hatred for this play that a lot of tumblr (and a certain segment of contemporary society) holds, and I disagree with almost everything thatâs ever been said about this play on this website. But I donât enjoy reading it, and itâs so widely held as the ninth grade Shakespeare text that I keep having to teach it, which firmly disinclines me to read it on my own.
All the rest of the histories: I havenât read most of these tbh, and while I almost always enjoy his histories, I usually donât enjoy them enough to bump the other plays off my favorites list.