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Which Shakespeare play...?

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husbandcallsmepickle · 19/12/2025 06:38

Which Shakespeare play did you study for GCSE English? We were chatting about this at work and most of my colleagues read Macbeth. I was in the minority as I studied A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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TeenToTwenties · 19/12/2025 06:39

Macbeth. Fab play.

xmasstress12 · 19/12/2025 06:39

Midsummers which is also one of my favourites

HollyGolightly4 · 19/12/2025 06:40

Merchant of Venice

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DappledThings · 19/12/2025 06:43

The Merchant of Venice for GCSE. King Lear and Hamlet for A level.

EyeLevelStick · 19/12/2025 06:44

Twelfth Night (O level!). Then Hamlet and Macbeth for A level.

YellowCherry · 19/12/2025 06:46

I did Julius Caesar. My DC did Macbeth.

TheBirdintheCave · 19/12/2025 06:48

I think it was Macbeth though I also remember reading Twelfth Night. We did Othello at A Level.

Whatsthatsheila · 19/12/2025 06:50

husbandcallsmepickle · 19/12/2025 06:38

Which Shakespeare play did you study for GCSE English? We were chatting about this at work and most of my colleagues read Macbeth. I was in the minority as I studied A Midsummer Night's Dream.

A midsummer nights dream and I love it.

id love to watch a production of it but never seem to be one locally

EleanorReally · 19/12/2025 06:51

o'level
macbeth

LoopingStar · 19/12/2025 06:59

A Winter's Tale

Needmorelego · 19/12/2025 07:03

For GCSE I have no memory at all of studying a Shakespeare play (which seems odd).
I remember us doing Richard III in 3rd year (Yr9) as a cross-curriculum thing with our Drama class.

Millionaura · 19/12/2025 07:09

GCSE - Merchant of Venice
A Level - Hamlet, Much A Do

Toddlerteaplease · 19/12/2025 07:11

Midsummer nights Dream, (loathed it ) Romeo and Juliet. Both put me off Shakespeare.

DeQuin · 19/12/2025 07:13

O'level: Julius Caesar. Had forgotten than until I saw PP, and was going to say Macbeth. I did Macbeth at A'level (and Winter's Tale). I had an English teacher who made us read lots of Shakespeare at A'level as he LOVED it.

My kids have all done Macbeth at GCSE.

MrJumpyLegs · 19/12/2025 07:18

Macbeth. I also read as you like it. A level was king Lear

everdine · 19/12/2025 07:25

Macbeth great play!

SockQueen · 19/12/2025 07:27

Am I the only one with Henry V for GCSE?!

We did Julius Caesar in y9 as well, while everyone else was doing Romeo & Juliet (the Baz Luhrman film had just come out)

echt · 19/12/2025 07:36

It was 'O' level back in my day: Julius Caesar - meh.
'A' level - Measure for Measure and King Lear - fab.

Rehab4rightmove · 19/12/2025 07:42

Taming of the Shrew. Loved it!

YouCantBeSadHoldingACupcake · 19/12/2025 07:43

Romeo and Juliet

Thatcannotberight · 19/12/2025 07:47

O level. 😁. Merchant of Venice, but also read A Winter's Tale at some point.
DCs have done or are doing Macbeth. DC1 now 24 and DC2 14.

Brumchum · 19/12/2025 07:49

Richard III. O Level.

EndofDaze · 19/12/2025 07:50

O level - Romeo and Juliet
A level - King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra

ShyMaryEllen · 19/12/2025 07:51

Twelfth Night for O level, and King Lear for A level. We also read Volpone - not Shakespeare but chosen from the same part of the curriculum. I loved them all.

Needmorelego · 19/12/2025 07:52

I am really curious why I have no memory of actually studying a Shakespeare play for GCSE.
Did anyone here do either Northern Exam Board or Southern Exam Board exam year 1991 who can prompt my memory?
Thanks 🙂