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kirious asked: What's your favorite Shakespeare play and why?

I have a lot of answers to this question, and frankly it can depend on my mood as to which play is grabbing me the most at any given time. One of the many strengths of his plays, etc. etc. And while my first love is A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and I’m obsessed with the underlying mind/body battle in Othello, and I’m practically overwhelmed by the language and imagery of Macbeth and the acting challenges of even trying to do Hamlet, and while I’m amazed at how current and visceral Timon of Athens feels, and how I can’t really get enough of the charming and infinite metatheatrics of As You Like It, and I can’t quite get Richard III to stop staring at me in my imagination, what looms over them all— what still gets me, every time, no matter where I am emotionally at any given moment, is the bottomless depths of King Lear, and the haunting possibilities those words create.