read the Shakespeare canon

Comedies
* The Tempest
* -The Two Gentlemen of Verona-
* -The Merry Wives of Windsor-
* -Measure for Measure-
* The Comedy of Errors
* Much Ado About Nothing
* Love’s Labour’s Lost
* -A Midsummer Night’s Dream-
* -The Merchant of Venice-
* -As You Like It-
* -The Taming of the Shrew-
* All’s Well That Ends Well
* Twelfth Night or What You Will
* The Winter’s Tale
* Pericles, Prince of Tyre
* The Two Noble Kinsmen

Histories
* King John
* -Richard II-
* Henry IV, part 1
* Henry IV, part 2
* Henry V
* Henry VI, part 1
* Henry VI, part 2
* Henry VI, part 3
* -Richard III-
* Henry VIII

Tragedies
* Troilus and Cressida
* Coriolanus
* -Titus Andronicus-
* -Romeo and Juliet-
* Timon of Athens
* Julius Caesar
* -Macbeth-
* -Hamlet-
* -King Lear-
* -Othello-
* Antony and Cleopatra
* -Cymbeline- (normally classed as a comedy today)

I’ve read a few of the greatest hits – some comedies, Hamlet a coupla times, King Lear. Seen some movies obviously. But next fall I’m doing a Shakespeare paper anyway, so getting ahead would make a certain kind of sense.

I might as well start with a list of works I’ve already read. Some, like Macbeth, are absolutely fuzzy in my memory. Perhaps I should consider rereading them.

PoemsLucreceSonnetsA Lover’s Complaint

Movie versions/live performances seenTitus Andronicus: dir. Julie Taymore; Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming
Love’s Labour’s Lost: UMass Amherst theater dept.
Romeo and Juliet: lost track :)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: dir. Michael Hoffman; Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett
Taming of the Shrew: high school performance, Underground Shakespeare company, 10 Things I Hate About You adaptation
Richard II: Underground Shakespeare
Henry IV (Part 1 & 2): does My Own Private Idaho count?
Henry V: Kenneth Branagh version
Much Ado About Nothing: Underground Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh movie adaptation
Hamlet: too many versions :) Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Ethan Hawke…
Othello: dir. Oliver Parker; Laurence Fishburne
The Tempest: some unknown theater film