Until few years ago, I had never seen a Shakespeare play on stage, and when I finally did, it wasn’t exactly love at first sight. But something stuck, and I decided to learn more, so I started this blog to chart my way through the Bard’s plays. I started in April 2016, and finished just couple hours shy of 2017 on New Year’s Eve, reading and blogging a play per week. I used the Oxford Complete Works by Stanley Wells to read the plays, and Arden Shakespeare introductions for secondary reading, but the opinions are all mine.
Here’s a complete list Shakespeare plays; asterisk marks plays I have seen live. Click the name of the play for the post.
All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It *
Comedy of Errors*
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet *
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar*
King John
King Lear *
Love’s Labour’s Lost*
Macbeth *
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night’s Dream *
Much Ado about Nothing*
Othello*
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet *
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest*
Timon of Athens *
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona *
Winter’s Tale
Shakespeare for absolute beginners 