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Cellomaster2238
05-21-2008, 05:51 PM
I want to give reading Shakespeare's complete works a try this summer, but I have no idea how to go about doing it. Where do I start? Should I read all the comedies, tragedies, histories, and poems as they appear in a book (grouped together) or should I read it in some other order? Thanks in advance for the help.

barbara0207
05-21-2008, 06:02 PM
Depends how scholarly your reading is going to be. If you want to read Shakespeare just for fun I'd choose a random order. Read a comedy or a tragedy when you feel like it, put in a sonnet now and then until you have read everything. To my mind that's the most enjoyable way.

JBI
05-21-2008, 11:15 PM
I read comedy tragedy romance history, though publication order is the best scholarly way, and difficulty level is the best beginner way.