Saturday, May 1, 2010

Checklist

The Shakespeare in a Year Challenge:

Comedies and Tragedies
(listed by approximate publication date, based on Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom)

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Comedy of Errors
Titus Andronicus
The Taming of the Shrew
Love's Labour's Lost
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Pericles
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
The Two Noble Kinsmen

Histories
(listed in chronological order)

King John
Richard II
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Richard III
Henry VIII
Edward III (non-canonical)

Poems

The sonnets
A Lover's Complaint
Venus and Adonis

The Rape of Lucrece
The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Funeral Elegy

1 comment:

  1. Too cool that you're so close!! I plan to do this too, eventually. I've just now started reading Shakespeare -- among other classics.

    His sonnets are exceptional!! :-)

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