What is the greatest Shakespearean comedy?
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I would vote for A Midsummer Night's Dream.  It's a great dose of comic silliness with just enough philosophical inquiry into the relationship between dream and reality to give you food for thought.  The last scene alone is worth the price of admission (or rental, or the cost of a good book).
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http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
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FunniestStuff.net\nenjoy
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It's the funniest.\n\nlove and blessings Don
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Sonnet 18, "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day" is a good starting place. If you like that passage, try "A Midsummer Night's Dream". \n\nhttp://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/midsummer/full.html\n\nBe warned. Shakespeare seemed to hide a lot in his writings. The Bard is bawdy.\n\nhttp://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1739819,00.html\n\nAlso, for an easier read that is full of wit, sarcasm and humor, try Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain. "Life On The Mississippi" is one of my favorite reads.
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There is no other writer who has had more movies made of his stories than Shakespeare.  Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Midsummer's Night Dream, etc. They are all movies of his plays.  No other writer has came close to his work.  And also, as others have said, many movies have been based on his work.  For example, the Lion King.  That is very much based on Hamlet (the uncle kills the king to become king, the son tries to get revenge).
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try this one and search "just for laughs"
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Jean Renoir's 1939 comedy of manners and artistic masterpiece "The Rules of the Game," though it is perhaps just as much drama as it is comedy. For a film that is pure comedy (and pure comedic genius), I choose Stanley Kubrick's 1964 cold war satire "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
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boris is by far the best he is so funny\n\nmy hubby agrees i had to ring him at work to tell him!
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You can obtain the script at http://www.william-shakespeare.info/script-text-pericles.htm
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I love Sonnet 130!\n\nI like this site, too:\n\nhttp://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/130detail.html\n\nIt has the poem paraphrased and analyzed.\n\nMore information, including quotes from other writers is at:\nhttp://members.aol.com/danieledg1/sonnets.html\n\nI hope Shakespeare's mistress had a good sense of humor and that she waited around for the end of the sonnet.
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I would vote "Love Actually."  It's definitely my favorite romantic comedy and it has a lot of big stars:\nHugh Grant\nLiam Neeson\nDenise Richards\nElisha Cuthbert\nShannon Elizabeth\nColin Firth\nKiera Knightley\nMr. Bean\nBilly Bob Thorton\nAlan Rickman\netc.\n\nIf you haven't seen it, give it a shot.  I know what you're saying though, most movies with big name actors suck.
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Election: * Comedy *\nRaising Arizona: * Hilarious *
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Love that movie.  I love the Black Knight "Tis but a flesh wound" and the french knight at the castle "Your father is a hamster and your mother smells of elderberrys" and "I fart in your general direction".  You could sit and quote from that movie all night.  It's one of the funniest around.
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monty python : the holy grail....
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Hamlet!! we just finished reading that in my ap senior english class last friday!  try sparknotes.com, it really helps, and there's even a section, no-fear-shakespeare, that has the original text next to everyday english, so that it is easier to understand what it being said in our modern lingo...\nhope this helps!!!
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His sonnets. Anything to do with the "Dark Lady". I wrote a very well-received paper on one of them in college.\n\nAnd Hamlet. The doomed hero is the sexiest.