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Finished Love's Labour's Lost. God, what a frustrating experience that was! The numerous compositors' errors in a text already rife with Latinisms and other difficult linguistic features had me reading the Folio on my e-reader in one hand and my copy of the Folger Shakespeare LLL in the other. I'm not speaking figuratively; this was quite literal two-fisted reading.
— Sep 08, 2021 10:03PM
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Finished Othello and WOW is it a magnificent play, but the world already knows that. Iago is a terrific—in both senses—depiction of a sociopath.
The next play in the First Folio is All's Well That Ends Well, but first I'll read Sir Thomas More in The Shakespeare Apocrypha. It'll be my first time reading the whole play, as all the complete works editions I've read only contained Hand D.
— Dec 03, 2021 01:17PM
The next play in the First Folio is All's Well That Ends Well, but first I'll read Sir Thomas More in The Shakespeare Apocrypha. It'll be my first time reading the whole play, as all the complete works editions I've read only contained Hand D.
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Finished Measure for Measure. Now up to Othello, and after I'll switch to The Shakespeare Apocrypha edited by C. F. Tucker Brooke for Sir Thomas More, since stylometric analysis has determined "Hand D" to be closest to Othello. After that, it will be All's Well That Ends Well, which is adapted from a story in my favorite book The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.
— Dec 01, 2021 04:50PM
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Finished Troilus and Cressida, which is now one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. What a magnificent work. It's making me hopeful that I'll love the other "problem plays" just as much, and I certainly know that will be the case with the next one, Measure for Measure. I've seen it once in an excellent production and read it innumerable times.
— Nov 28, 2021 09:07PM
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Up to Troilus and Cressida. Twelfth Night was delightful as always, but now I have to bid goodbye to the ha-ha funny comedies and start reading the problem plays and late romances (though the Bohemia scenes in The Winter's Tale, still sparkle with Shakespeare's gift for comedy, and Autolycus is one of Shakespeare's great comic characters).
— Nov 26, 2021 12:12AM
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Finished Hamlet, my favorite Shakespeare play. What a magnificent piece of theatre that work is! Now up to the equally engaging Twelfth Night, my favorite Shakespeare comedy.
— Nov 15, 2021 07:52PM
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Finished As You Like It, one of my favorite Shakespeare comedies, and next up is my favorite Shakespeare tragedy, Hamlet. I'm fighting down the temptation to start it today. But I have a plan. I'm going to read Shakespeare After All and Hamlet while listening to the regular morning and noontime classical music programs, then take the Folio to the outdoor organ concert and finish it there.
— Nov 13, 2021 02:57PM
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Up to As You Like It, one of my favorite Shakespeare comedies.
— Nov 11, 2021 11:05PM
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Just finished Henry V and it has justified its place as my favorite history play. Now up to Julius Caesar
— Nov 07, 2021 05:43PM
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Finished Much Ado About Nothing, which confirmed its place as one of my favorite Shakespeare comedies. Now on to Henry V. Given the way foreign phrases are handled by the compositors, I am not looking forward to the passages in French, which I suspect will be butchered beyond belief.
— Oct 31, 2021 01:05PM
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Finished The Merry Wives of Windsor. Up to Much Ado About Nothing.
— Oct 30, 2021 10:10PM
