Read the complete works of Shakespeare

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

Blue have been read, 10/38 so far!

haven’t read it in a while thought I would read it again since I am going to be in this one as well

Wouldn’t put it at the top of my list of favorites for Shakespeare, but its fun…and I get to be in it!!

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.