Nullifidian > Recent Status Updates

August 19, 2023 – page 543
58.39% "Finished Henry VI, Part 3 and I'm now just about to read Shakespeare's first masterpiece, IMO, Richard III."

August 13, 2023 – page 517
55.59% "Finished Henry VI, Part 2. Next up is Henry VI, Part 3."

August 13, 2023 – page 490
52.69% "Read Henry VI, Part One. Next up is Henry VI, Part Two, natch."

August 6, 2023 – page 466
50.11% "Finished Henry V, which was brilliant. Still my favorite history play. Next up is Henry VI, Part One."

July 11, 2023 – page 439
47.2% "Read Henry VI, Part 2, Next up is Henry V, my favorite history play."

July 9, 2023 – page 410
44.09% "Finished Henry IV, Part One. Next up is Henry IV, Part Two, of course, and then my favorite of the histories, Henry V."

May 31, 2023 – page 384
41.29% "Finished Richard II. Next up is Henry IV, Part 1."

"May 6, 2023 – page 361
38.82% "I embarked on the histories with King John and finished it. Next up in the Folio is Richard II, but first I'm going to read Edward III because that's the next Shakespearean play according to the historical chronology.""

April 30, 2023 – page 338
36.34% "Finished The Winter's Tale and with it the comedies in the First Folio. I'll be listening to the Arkangel Shakespeare recordings of Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen, which were not included in the First Folio, but after that I'll get started on the histories with King John."

April 23, 2023 – page 310
33.33% "Finished Twelfth Night, which renewed its place in my mind and heart as my favorite Shakespeare comedy. Next up is The Winter's Tale and then off to the histories."

April 19, 2023 – page 288
30.97% "Finished All's Well That Ends Well, a play I like better and better every time I read it. Next up is my favorite Shakespeare comedy, Twelfth Night."

April 16, 2023 – page 263
28.28% "Read The Taming of the Shrew. Next up is All's Well That Ends Well."

April 9, 2023 – page 241
25.91% "Finished As You Like It, which was as joyous as I remember it. Next up is The Taming of the Shrew."

April 8, 2023 – page 219
23.55% "Finished The Merchant of Venice. Next up is As You Like It, my second most favorite Shakespeare comedy."

April 8, 2023 – page 197
21.18% "Finished A Midsummer Night's Dream. Next up is The Merchant of Venice."

April 7, 2023 – page 179
19.25% "Read Love's Labour's Lost, which is one of my favorite plays. Next up is A Midsummer Night's Dream, which I haven't necessarily considered a favorite but I'm warming up to it each time."

April 4, 2023 – page 156
16.77% "Read Much Ado About Nothing. Next up is Love's Labour's Lost another of my favorite comedies."

March 29, 2023 – page 135
14.52% "Finished The Comedy of Errors. Next up: Much Ado About Nothing."

March 26, 2023 – page 119
12.8% "Finished Measure for Measure and I'm now up to The Comedy of Errors, which is Shakespeare's shortest play, so I may end up reading it tonight too."

March 24, 2023 – page 95
10.22% "Finished The Merry Wives of Windsor, and in good time, because I'll be seeing the upcoming Metropolitan Opera production of Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi in a week. I also recorded the Public Theatre production of the play in New York so I'll watch it tonight.

Next up is Measure for Measure, one of my favorite "problem plays" along with Troilus and Cressida."

March 21, 2023 – page 73
7.85% "Finished The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Next up is The Merry Wives of Windsor."

March 14, 2023
5.81% "Read "To the Reader", the Epistle Dedicatory, "To the Great Variety of Readers", the commendatory verses, the list of principal actors, and the first play, The Tempest. It was again as moving as I've always found it.

I'm going to try to read the plays in the genre order of the book, so next up is Shakespeare's first play, The Two Gentlemen of Verona."

Finished the sections on "Shakespeare" and "Bacon". Now up to Section 3, "Oxford".

Up to Chapter XVI: A Tug-of-War with the First Folio.

Up to Chapter XV: "Four Miscellaneous Topics".

Up to Chapter VII: "Parallelism and the 'Promus'"

Up to "The Case for Lord Derby".

Up to Chapter IV: "The Case for the Oxford Syndicate"

Up to Chapter III: "The Case for Francis Bacon".

Read Henry VIII, so now I'm finished with the Folio histories as well as the comedies! Next up in the Folio is Troilus and Cressida, but before that I'm going to read Sir Thomas More by Anthony Munday et al., edited by Vittorio Gabrieli and Giorgio Melchiori.