Post #4127500
2026-07-27 01:21 UTC
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@muddle@infosec.exchange 2026-07-27 02:42
@ajroach42@retro.social Probably only 3. Unless you count Ran, which I guess falls under the "adaptation" rule. #Yamamori
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@Longspeak@bardicperspiration.club 2026-07-27 03:20
@ajroach42@retro.social >20 thanks to my Shakespeare-crazed daughter. If different versions count as different plays, >50. If adaptations count, we go over a hundred. Hell, we go over 10 just in Hamlet. I think I saw maybe three before my daughter turned onto him. My daughter is crazy for Shakespeare. A scholar, you might say.
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@arem@mstdn.ca 2026-07-27 03:57
@ajroach42@retro.social None, because all were adapted. MacBeth was a live action film, and Titus got anachronistic elements added. Romeo & Juliet doesn't count because it got shoehorned into modernity. Thus two proper Shakespeare's works were seen, but not as a play.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2026-07-27 07:20
@ajroach42@retro.social I’d expect a few peaks in the distribution: Not part of my country’s cultural tradition, never bothered.Forced to watch one or two at school but didn’t like them.Enjoyed them and actively sought out more.Massive fan, tried to see them all. So I’d expect most of the less than 20 to be closer to the top end, skewed by the fact that there are 10-15 that get performed a lot more often than the others (in the same way that, if someone has seen one Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, odds are it was Pirates of Penzance). I get mildly annoyed at how Shakespeare has been promoted to Literature with a capital L. He wrote popular trash. Some of the enjoyment is lost for a modern audience by the fact the plays are full of references to current affairs that no one has had living memory of for a few hundred years, but when they are played by a group of players who view them in this way they’re far more enjoyable than the treatments that try to portray them as serious high-brow entertainment. I suspect the latter version is why there are so many people in the second category.
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@ajroach42@retro.social 2026-07-27 01:29
I've seen Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard III, and Taming of the Shrew. I've seen Romeo and Juliet ... three or four times, maybe 5 if you include film, and I've been in it once. (I was Mercutio) I've never seen Twelfth Night, but I've played Sebastian once (in an adaptation) and Antonio in a straight performance. I saw Julius Caesar with the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern as a highschooler. I've only seen taming of the shrew on film, and I've done table reads of a couple of the parts, but I've never performed it or seen it live. I ... I swear I've seen Richard III, but I honestly don't remember when or under what context, so maybe I'm lying.