A Midsummer Night’s Dream
fairies are fighting and four young horndogs are wandering around the forest. oh, and there’s a bad actor who turns into an ass!
Much Ado About Nothing
claudio wants hero so don pedro helps, but the real story is about benedick and beatrice and how they hate each other, but not really.
Taming of the Shrew
this got remade into 10 Things I Hate About You, so just watch that. except the play within a play part, which isn’t in the movie.
The Tempest
i don’t remember too much about this play, except that it wasn’t all that funny and had magic in it. and a crazy guy named Caliban.
Twelfth Night
shipwreck! girl dresses as guy for lovelorn king but ends up falling for him. her undead twin brother arrives. mass confusion and weddings.
The Merchant of Venice
unfunny courtroom drama concerning jewish people and pounds of meat. there’s cross-dressing in this one as well.
Pericles
did you even know shakespeare wrote this? all i know is that, from the title, pericles is the prince of tyre.
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