Anyway, that got me thinking about some other reading resolutions I could make. The main one that came to mind was to read everything by one of my favourite writers (or more than one). I've decided I want to read everything by Jane Austen, but since she only wrote 6 novels that's not really much of a challenge. So instead I've picked Shakespeare. It's a bit of a mammoth task, and I'm not going to attempt to complete it in one year (especially since my copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare is at home in England), but it's something I'm going to try and do in my spare time, and we'll see how it goes.
This is the list as it stands, I've crossed out the ones I've already read (though I may re-read them as I go through this):
Poetry:
- The Sonnets
- Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece- The Passionate Pilgrim
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- A Lover's Complaint
Plays:
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 Labours 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
- The Winter's Tale
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
- 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
- Troilus and Cressida
- Coriolanus
Titus AndronicusRomeo and Juliet- Timon of Athens
- Julius Caesar
MacbethHamlet- King Lear
- Othello
Antony and Cleopatra- Cymbeline
I'm not a big fan of the histories, so I think that's going to be the toughest part. But anyway, wish me luck!
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