Read the complete works of Shakespeare

Several of these will be rereads – because the only thing I really remember about the play is that I did read it once.
Henry VI part I – reread in progress

You’ve all read many more than me (I’ve only read four and seen two others), but I’m only in tenth grade and I’m working on it. I bought the Complete Works of Shakespeare a week ago and I plan to start with Merchant of Venice and go from there with whatever else I feel like.

So far I’ve read:
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Twelfth Night
Titus Andronicus (and also saw this one performed)

And I saw:
Jullius Caesar
Hamlet

Titus Andronicus is my favorite, though I haven’t seen many of you list it as one that you’ve read. You should give it a try, it’s really…interesting. :D

Now I’ve got a lot of catching up to do!

thus far i’ve read nine of his plays (my favorite of those was merchant of venice); i think i’ll take a break from those, though, and focus on his sonnets for a while.

I have read:
Hamlet
Romeo & Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
King Lear
Julius Caesar
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

and a number of assorted sonnets

but I think I will re-read them all for this goal

I’ve gotten started on this goal – I read about a dozen of his plays – but I’ve had trouble following through. I love Shakespeare, though, and I know I’m going to do this. I think I’m going to start with “The Winter’s Tale” – because it’s one I’m curious about, and I haven’t read it yet.

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 read most of them and acted in quite a few. T’was a far far better thing I’d done. Years ago I stood on the Rialto bridge and recited lines from Merchant of Venice to a friend. While in Scotland, a passage from “He who must not be named” came to mind. Walking the grounds of the Tower of London, I pictured Launce’s dog stealing geese. In Copenhagen, my thoughts turned to the Prince of Denmark. All of Shakespeare’s works are fascinating, with their intricate plots of intrigue, poetry and imagery. Continue to read every one of them. Then read them again.

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.