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.
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.
O schaurig ists übers Moor zu gehn,
wenn es wimmelt vom Heiderauche,
sich wie Phantome die Dünste drehn
und die Ranke häkelt am Strauche.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797 - 1843) (see avatar) Der Knabe im Moor/The Lad in the Moor
I read comedy tragedy romance history, though publication order is the best scholarly way, and difficulty level is the best beginner way.
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