Which Shakespeare play...?

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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.

Macbeth. Fab play.

Midsummers which is also one of my favourites

Merchant of Venice

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

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

I did Julius Caesar. My DC did Macbeth.

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

A midsummer nights dream and I love it.

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

o'level
macbeth

A Winter's Tale

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.

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

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

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.

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

Macbeth great play!

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)

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

Taming of the Shrew. Loved it!

Romeo and Juliet

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.

Richard III. O Level.

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

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.

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 🙂