Read the complete works of Shakespeare

Ok, its winter, I am currently unemployed and have absolutely no excuse for not working on this goal. None at all. I spend my days on Facebook and watching various tv shows that I don’t really like, I just want something to fill my time. So here goes. One play at a time. Here’s the list again, bold have been read, others have not. Any suggestions on where to go next?

1.Henry IV: Part One
2.Henry IV: Part Two
3.Henry V
4.Henry VI: Part One
5.Henry VI: Part Two
6.Henry VI: Part Three
7.Henry VIII
8.Richard II
9.Richard III
10.King John
11.All’s Well That Ends Well
12.As You Like It
13.The Comedy of Errors
14.Love’s Labour’s Lost
15.Measure for Measure
16.The Merchant of Venice

17.The Merry Wives of Windsor

18.A Midsummer Night’s Dream

19.Much Ado About Nothing
20.Pericles, Prince of Tyre
21.The Taming of the Shrew
22.The Tempest
23.Twelfth Night

24.The Two Gentlemen of Verona
25.The Two Noble Kinsmen
26.The Winter’s Tale
27.Romeo and Juliet
28.Coriolanus
29.Titus Andronicus
30.Timon of Athens
31.Julius Caesar

32.Macbeth

33.Hamlet
34.Troilus and Cressida
35.King Lear
36.Othello

37.Anthony and Cleopatra
38.Cymbeline

I finished Two Gentlemen of Verona today, which I liked a lot, and started on The Merry Wives of Windsor. Does anyone know if the characters Falstaff, Pistol, Nym and Bardolph from The Merry Wives of Windsor are the same characters with those names in Henry IV and Henry V?

I finished All’s Well that End’s Well and started Two Gentlemen of Verona. There are 37 plays, 5 poems, and 160 sonnets in my Complete Shakespeare. Before I started this goal, I had already read 12 plays and one poem and now I have read a total of 13 plays and one poem so I have 24 plays, 4 poems and 160 sonnets left to go. If I read one play a week, which should be an easy enough goal, and then take two more weeks to read the poems and sonnets, I will be done with this goal by the second of April, 2009.

I finally got my complete Shakespeare sent up from my parents house so I can read it in book form and not just online. Now I can work on my goal on the bus and on my lunch breaks and any other time when I am without my computer. Still workin on All’s Well that Ends Well. Its a very Shakespearean plot, full of switching people around and confused identities.

I’ve already read a few in my life but I started today to go through the ones I haven’t read. I’m starting with the comedies because I’ve always found them the hardest to understand. I found a website where I can download them for free ( http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shakespeare/william/ ) and I begain reading Alls Well that Ends Well.