Absolutely amazing. I've seen some of the segments posted on various sites, so I was worried it'd lose something in the reading-without-performing, but this was just as good. I'd love to see this performed live!

This would’ve been so much more enjoyable without the excessive sexual innuendos.

The revised edition by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield updated the original script. Although out of date again, it shows how to add timely comments into the play. It was fun to read through what seemed like improv.

This book falls somewhere between The Bard and Monty Python. Absolutely unique and hilarious.

oh my freakin' word! if you haven't seen this play you need to find it and watch it...because it is amazing! easily one of the funniest scripts i have ever read. i would love to put this on with a couple of friends one day...it is just that wonderful. funny, funny, funny...oh, and did i mention that it is funny? it will have you rolling whether you read the script first or watch others put it on. enjoy...i know i will for years to come.

Comedy and I don't get along, I don't know why I bother.

Years back I heard of this

I never expected it was possible to hammer all the history comedy.and tragic plays into one and I couldn't see it being cast as up to date topical references inserted. Hi guys Enron, Exxon Valdez, OJ's trial real life and 24 TV drama

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I haven't read it but, like some others here, I did watch the play, and it is HILARIOUS! I thought I should rate it on goodreads so more people might be tempted to see/read this play. I had my doubts when we brought the tickets and I realised the entire play had a cast of just three or four people playing different characters, but the whole play was ingenious and so well delivered. Quite possibly the funniest play I've ever seen, and if it was still playing in London, I would go and see it again.

I believe the Reduced Shakespeare Company is still touring around the USA, so if you're lucky enough to have them coming to a venue near you, do go to see them. http://www.reducedshakespeare.com/tou...

And no, I am not affiliated with them :-) I just think they deserve praise for their wonderful play.

Listen, this is just not for me. I get why people like it, and I understand why Shakespeare theatres produce it, but these are not my kind of jokes. I will say that I am grateful for the revisions in the "[revised] [again]" version. It does make the whole enterprise less offensive.

I think I need to re-read this after I've read more Shakespeare. I've read and seen a number of them, but clearly not enough to really understand the humor of the book. My loss :^( I'll try again someday.


Notes to Self:
I've read: Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing

I've seen: Othello, All's Well that Ends Well, Coriolanus, Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Twelfth Night

They are geniuses