Read, re-read (with annotations), study critical essays on, and read a final time whatever Shakespeare plays you want. First Grouping: King Lear, then Hamlet, then The Merchant of Venice, then Macbeth, then Titus Andronicus.

-Bought Bloom’s “Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human”
-Have Riverside edition with annotated versions, essays and sources.
-Have non-annotated, inexpensive copy of “The Complete Works” (37 of 39 plays) to mark up.