I'm glad that you brought up The Taming of the Shrew. cheshcat and I were just talking about this the other night. In a different context, The Taming of the Shrew is my least favourite... along with The Merchant of Venice. Both of those plays, whilst well written and with interesting plots, are actively offensive to me because of my cultural sensibilities.
In contrast, Loves Labours Lost and Measure For Measure don't offend me... they just bore me. Shrew and Merchant may have pissed me off... but they didn't put me to sleep.
I guess that "least favourite" is a poor choise of words on my part. In the absence of context, it is a vague and ambiguous construct. (Hopefully this comment has helped remove some of that ambiguity!)
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Date: 2008-11-17 06:54 pm (UTC)I'm glad that you brought up The Taming of the Shrew.
In contrast, Loves Labours Lost and Measure For Measure don't offend me... they just bore me. Shrew and Merchant may have pissed me off... but they didn't put me to sleep.
I guess that "least favourite" is a poor choise of words on my part. In the absence of context, it is a vague and ambiguous construct. (Hopefully this comment has helped remove some of that ambiguity!)
On my way to ice skating now -- whee! (*kiss*)