{"id":2885,"date":"2016-04-18T23:31:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/whats-the-best-shakespeare-play-ever-written-introducing-our-this-be-madness-bracket\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T23:31:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:31:42","slug":"whats-the-best-shakespeare-play-ever-written-introducing-our-this-be-madness-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/whats-the-best-shakespeare-play-ever-written-introducing-our-this-be-madness-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s the best Shakespeare play ever written? Introducing our &#039;This Be Madness&#039; bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris-shakespeare-bball\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE4LzlmL0NocmlzU2hha2VzLjVhNTEzLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/cc926229\/29d\/Chris-Shakespeare-BBall.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=What%27s+the+best+Shakespeare+play+ever+written%3F+Introducing+our+%27This+Be+Madness%27+bracket&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F18%2Fshakespeare-bracket-this-be-madness%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F18%2Fshakespeare-bracket-this-be-madness%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend us your ears.<\/p>\n<p>April 23 marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the Bard and his indelible influence on the world, we&#8217;re hosting a <b>This Be Madness<\/b>\u00a0bracket to determine Shakespeare&#8217;s greatest play.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/09\/02\/pop-sonnets\/\">Shakespeare Meets Top 40 Music in &#8216;Pop Sonnets&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To that end, we&#8217;ve selected 32 of Shakespeare&#8217;s most iconic works to battle head-to-head for the title of Best Shakespeare Play Ever. The plays are organized into four quadrants based on the four genres of plays Shakespeare commonly wrote: comedies, histories, tragedies and weird magic stuff. (Okay, we may have made up that last category in order to get to four, but you know the type: the plays with ghosts, witches, gods, etc.) <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/18\/shakespeare-bracket-this-be-madness\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/this-be-madness\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">This Be Madness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/bracket\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Bracket<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/shakespeare\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Shakespeare<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/books\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Books<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/wr6q1M7TTOE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend us your ears. April 23 marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare&#8217;s death. To celebrate the Bard and his indelible influence on the world, we&#8217;re hosting a This Be Madness\u00a0bracket to determine Shakespeare&#8217;s greatest play. SEE &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/whats-the-best-shakespeare-play-ever-written-introducing-our-this-be-madness-bracket\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[756,2123,739,2124,2122],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-books","tag-bracket","tag-entertainment","tag-shakespeare","tag-this-be-madness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}