I decided to set a personal Shakespeare goal for myself, but then thought, why not challenge everyone else to create a goal, too? And what better day to begin but Shakespeare's birthday?!Your goal can be to read all of the Comedies. Or maybe it will be to read three plays before the end of the year. Or maybe it will just be to read one specific play. It's your decsision!
My goal is to read all of the plays. Not by the end of this year - I don't have a specific time-line set, other than I know I want to read each one. Here's the master list, and I'll cross out each play as I read it. In bold are the plays I have either been in or seen a film/live production of.
(EDIT: As the participants post recaps or reviews of the plays they read, I'll link to they're posts in the paranthises next to each play.)
COMEDIES
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale
HISTORIES
Cymbeline
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III (Becky)
TRAGEDIES
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello (Becky)
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida (Becky)
Currently reading: Romeo and Juliet
If you want to join in my challenge, leave a comment with a specific link to your post about it, and I'll make a list of all participants.
20 comments:
Hi, Erin. You don't know me, but I've kind of been reading your blog for a while ever since I got the link of Michelle's blog, who got the link to your blog from one of her friends who is also your friend?
I love Shakespeare, being a Tudor England person.
I've read....
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
Othello
I've seen the last two performed live.
My favorite is probably Twelfth Night.
Luckily I've got a three volume anthology of all of Shakespeare's works...And King Lear and As You Like It in paperback.
What a fun challenge. I don't know how many challenges I can tackle at once, but I am considering joining this one. I love Shakespeare.
I'll have to think about this one. My real goal is to see all the plays performed before I die.
Anidori-Isilee, thank you for stopping by! Twelfth Night is my favorite of the plays that I've read, although Midsummer Night's Dream is right up there. Have you seen the movie version with Helena Bonham Carter? If not, you must, it's quite excellent.
Becky and Sherry, I hope you join. And Sherry, I applaud your goal, I would like to do that as well!
Shakespeare? *completely brain-dead (from school) Sookie asks*
Who's Shakespeare?
Just kidding! I would join your challenge.....but then I'd actually have to have time to read and translate the meanings and.....
ah....
so back to my original question:
Who's Shakespeare?
(But I have greatly enjoyed Romeo &Juliet, Othello, The Tempest, and Mcbeth-plus about twelve sonnets that I absolutely love)
Good idea!
My list =
http://slayground.livejournal.com/217669.html
It's truly odd to me that Merchant ends up in the Comedy column. I know there's all that gender-bending, and mistaken identity and whatever, but ultimately, what sticks with me the most is poor, poor, Shylock. I know that he serves as a villain, but he's so Pavlovian, and gosh, he was what society made him. And it makes me sad, even amid his unforgivable acts. He saw his chance for power and revenge, and he took it with all the self-respect he had, and, and... he's just so darn tragic... You know, I think I must have written a paper on him back in college... this must be why I remember it so well... huh. Weird that I'd forget a thing like that...but then I did take a lot of literature... ok, musing over. ;)
Wow! This is great Erin. I love Shakespeare. Good luck with this.
Totally doing the challenge, Erin! So, you can put me on your list! I will post about it in the next couple days....
More folks:
http://rclementmoore.livejournal.com/130518.html
http://slwhitman.livejournal.com/54531.html
How about I watch the movie? My cousin is in Much Ado About Nothing. He plays the young lover, what's-his-name.
Ah, I'll read the play. Why not?
I'm in and at: http://yzocaet.blogspot.com/2007/04/shakespeare.html
Hmm, interesting. I think the bigger (and more interesting) challenge would be to see the plays. I hate reading Shakespeare's plays cold - they're meant to be watched, not read, after all !
Erin:
I'm in! Here is my post:
http://blbooks.blogspot.com/2007/04/shakespeare-challenge.html
oh wow! Thats a big goal to set. I would like to read some of his plays!!
I have just reread MidSummer Night's Dream and I have a couple of others lying around the house, so count me in.
Ooh, fun! Maybe, just maybe, I'll do it...Will let you know...
I've just marked on my blog which ones I have read over the years and will try to dig out a couple more over the next few weeks.
Okay, I am 2 months late, but I have made my list. Now I have even more to read!
http://strathconn.com/lady/shakespeare
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