Taming of the Shrew
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Midsummer Night's Dream
Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
Merry Wives of Windsor
Twelfth Night
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Tempest
Winter's Tale
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
Troilus and Cressida
Othello
King Lear
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Cymbeline
Macbeth
The life and death of King John
The life and death of King Richard the Second
The First Part of Henry the Fourth
The Second Part of Henry the Fourth
The Life of Henry the Fift
The first Part of Henry the Sixt
The second Part of Henry the Sixt
The third Part of Henry the Sixt
The Tragedie of Richard the Third
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight
Following our members' requests, we will be reading Shakespeare's plays in the order they have been selected.
All plays are available online on our site:
http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/
Please vote for the play you would like to read by June 15th.
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I've just finished re-reading Romeo and Juliet. My Next choice is Macbeth. And a question, which is better, reading according to the order the plays written or according to the genres, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy ...
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Fabulous!!! I'm so happy we started this again. Actually I don't even care which play gets selected. In fact I'll hold off my vote for now until the votes coalesce around a couple of plays. Of course, people, we've done Hamlet to death, so perhaps we can pick another?
Edit: Scher, we've already did Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew for the Shakespeare Discussion Group. Shouldn't they be ruled out?
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I voted for Henry IV, a little selfish, but I'm studying it in depth next year in school so figured, can't hurt. I'll read anything of his though pretty much (though I prefer the big 5 tragedies).
It was between Lear and Macbeth, but I had to go with Big Bad Mac.
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Macbeth. I read it before, but that was like a long time ago, and it wasn't even the 'real' text, it was a bit simplified. I was deciding between Macbeth, King Lear and Hamlet (I'm studying the tragedies next year) but I've always liked Macbeth more (well, as far as I remember at least..lol), I'd love to read it with you guys.
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My vote goes to Winter's Tale.....I feel it gets a bad rap and I would like to know people's opinions on it.
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In terms of language, and mechanics, it is simply the most developed of Shakespeare's work. In terms of content, I'm a minority opinion on these boards, it seems, in greatly esteeming the play.Originally Posted by Charles Darnay
Yay, can't wait to read Shakespeare w/ you guys. I pretty much don't care which one we read, except I kinda hope it's not Macbeth or Much Ado About Nothing, because I've already read those. I've been wanting to read more Shakespeare, so I'm excited.
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I voted Merchant of Venice. I am looking forward to read all of his plays.
My grandfather have all of them except one: As You Like It
-The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
--------William Shakespeare
-The god's paths are wayward.
- My english is bad and I know it. Sorry.
That was a year ago and since this is a new start, thought we should include those as well.
Feel free not to vote for those!
Haven't read this one so will join you, Darnay.
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Solid! I'm very excited to start this again. I'm with virgie I don't care what we read.
(although I do have Henry V at home and I do want to read Merchant of Venice before I see the movie....)
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Voted Winter's Tale because it's readily available to me (and it already had two votes).
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OK. I am a little confused.
1. So will we be reading all of the plays that have a vote? Will they be read in the order of the number of votes that they received?
2. Once we have covered those plays, will there perhaps be another poll to decide on the plays that we have left to discuss?
I am asking this because there are a couple that I would like to read again that I am thinking may not receive any votes this time around (i.e. Much Ado About Nothing). I am OK with not reading them right now, but I would like to eventually. So, I was just wondering exactly how this was going to work.
By the way, Hamlet is never overdone!
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