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.

I'm pericombobulated by your contrafibularity in pointing this out!

when did O levels stop?

Romeo and Juliet gcse and measure for fucking measure for a level

Measure for Measure is such a good play.

Macbeth for O Level, All’s Well that Ends Well, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra for A level. Now been a Secondary English teacher so been teaching Shakespeare for 30 years!

Year 9- Julius Caesar
GCSE- Macbeth
ALevel- Merchant of Venice and Othello

Midsummer too. I remember whinging about it and my dad saying Shakespeare was wonderful “except that drivel… Middummer Nights Dream!” 🙄

The Merchant of Venice in Y9, then Macbeth for GCSE. Didn't do English A-level, but friends who did studied Othello. I did Theatre Studies A-level and went to see Vanessa Redgrave in Antony and Cleopatra, and Steven Berkoff chewing the scenery in Coriolanus.

@FjordCortina We watched the Polanski Macbeth and got the giggles with all the groovy 70s nudity, then totally lost it when we realised Keith Chegwin was playing Fleance. Our English teacher was not amused.

@TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross thanks, didn’t realise it was so long ago with the many references on this thread. I was a baby, has the syllabus hardly changed then?

We studied, Macbeth, Twelfth night, Midsummer’s nights dream and Merchant of Venice. Can remember which for O level

Henry IV Part 1 for ‘O’ Level
Othello and Julius Caesar for ‘A’ Level

Romeo and Juliet, my daughter (a lot more recently than me) studied Macbeth.

Twelfth Night for O level, and we did Macbeth before the O level syllabus kicked in

Macbeth and possibly A Midsummer Night’s Dream for GCSE and Anthony and Cleopatra and Henry IV Part I for A-Level. Is it bad I can’t remember what I studied for GCSE?!

Twelfth Night for O'level. Seems it was a popular choice.
Richard the Third and King Lear for A level.

Merchant of Venice for O' Level, one of my two had Romeo & Juliet for GCSE.

Macbeth. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Macbeth and Twelfth Night.

A Winter's Tale (see username) and Antony & Cleopatra - A level.

DC doing A Midsummer Night's Dream in Y8.

Merchant of Venice for O Level
Hamlet and The Tempest for A level. We went on a trip from our school in the north west to see a production of Hamlet at The Old Vic. And to make it even more memorable it had Derek Jacobi as Hamlet and Timothy West as Claudius and was on the same day as the Silver Jubilee celebrations so we were able to see all the pageantry for that as well.

I'm fairly sure we did A Midsummers Night Dream for GCSE. We did Macbeth in Years 7-9.
We did Richard II and Othello at A Level.

I only really started to enjoy Shakespeare when I actually saw some plays performed.
I loved the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet.
I've seen a couple on stage by the actual RSC (Hamlet and Measure for Measure).
They are plays.... meant to be seen on a stage (or film version).
Reading them out loud in a classroom is a terrible way to study Shakespeare (or any plays).
Maybe that's why I can't remember what Shakespeare I actually studied at school 🤔

@ExitPursuedByABareArse brilliant user name....

Twelfth Night and Hamlet for A level