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planetshannon's review against another edition
4.0
My reading Shakespeare journey is complete!
I started with the plays back in 2010, and then again in 2015. It took me until the end of 2018 to finish all of the plays, and it was quite an amazing journey. I found that I am a sucker for the tragedies but don't often love the comedies. Histories were hit and miss, I loved Henry the Fourth Parts I & II, Henry V and Richard III. In fact, Richard III is in the running for my all time favourite, up there with Macbeth and King Lear. I have a side project to watch adaptations of all the plays, which is taking longer than I thought (some aren't done very often), but it's been a fun experience as well.
After I finished the plays, I took a break from reading Shakespeare. Than in 2019 I thought it was time to finish off the complete works! So I tucked into reading the sonnets and the poems, and the last thing to read was The Phoenix and Turtle (just 1 page!) on April 23rd - Shakespeare's Birthday! It felt like a fitting time to complete the journey.
I started with the plays back in 2010, and then again in 2015. It took me until the end of 2018 to finish all of the plays, and it was quite an amazing journey. I found that I am a sucker for the tragedies but don't often love the comedies. Histories were hit and miss, I loved Henry the Fourth Parts I & II, Henry V and Richard III. In fact, Richard III is in the running for my all time favourite, up there with Macbeth and King Lear. I have a side project to watch adaptations of all the plays, which is taking longer than I thought (some aren't done very often), but it's been a fun experience as well.
After I finished the plays, I took a break from reading Shakespeare. Than in 2019 I thought it was time to finish off the complete works! So I tucked into reading the sonnets and the poems, and the last thing to read was The Phoenix and Turtle (just 1 page!) on April 23rd - Shakespeare's Birthday! It felt like a fitting time to complete the journey.
smilem15's review against another edition
5.0
Finished!!
This took me 4 years. I feel like I should get a plaque or be allowed to put this on my resume or something.
--Favorite plays:
Henry V, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
--Favorite lines:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Hamlet
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time. —Macbeth
Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the deaths of kings. —Richard II
Sit by my side and let the world slip: we shall ne’er be younger. —The Taming of the Shrew
Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. —Much Ado About Nothing
--Favorite sonnet:
#116
This took me 4 years. I feel like I should get a plaque or be allowed to put this on my resume or something.
--Favorite plays:
Henry V, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
--Favorite lines:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Hamlet
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time. —Macbeth
Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the deaths of kings. —Richard II
Sit by my side and let the world slip: we shall ne’er be younger. —The Taming of the Shrew
Everyone can master a grief but he that has it. —Much Ado About Nothing
--Favorite sonnet:
#116
jazzylemon's review against another edition
5.0
A most beautiful and aesthetically pleasing book.
Not quite complete as it lacks The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Not quite complete as it lacks The Two Noble Kinsmen.
hazel_zee's review against another edition
5.0
We had this book in our family home's library -yes we used to have a library, filled with leather-bound books from the classics (Odyssey, Shakespeare plays, Jane Austens, etc)to think marketing, management, accounting and law books.
*My grandfather was a CPA Lawyer*
I always looked at how THICK this book was and who would ever read them! It had those onion skin sort of paper. really thin and fragile, and it's HEAVY.
College theater, we were asked to do a collection of Monologues and Solilloquies of Shakespeare's Tragedies. I had to play poor old Ophelia. And this book, saved me and had me reading MORE plays.
I've always enjoyed Shakespeare, but more on the screen or on the stage - not to read. but being on stage, in the theater for 3 months, made me love this book.
*My grandfather was a CPA Lawyer*
I always looked at how THICK this book was and who would ever read them! It had those onion skin sort of paper. really thin and fragile, and it's HEAVY.
College theater, we were asked to do a collection of Monologues and Solilloquies of Shakespeare's Tragedies. I had to play poor old Ophelia. And this book, saved me and had me reading MORE plays.
I've always enjoyed Shakespeare, but more on the screen or on the stage - not to read. but being on stage, in the theater for 3 months, made me love this book.
sldayreads's review against another edition
5.0
Thank you Mary :D
So far, Antony and Cleopatra is awesome-- I laugh a lot. Shakespeare is witty, damn.
So far, Antony and Cleopatra is awesome-- I laugh a lot. Shakespeare is witty, damn.
kezloudoun's review against another edition
4.0
My most treasured book. This is the one book I travel with (paperback edition of course). To have all those plays and sonnets at your fingertips, it's utterly fantastic.
loritian's review against another edition
5.0
Grew up with Norton. Spent decades with Riverside. Convenient to have the Kindle edition. Now diving into the Oxford.
tcole7's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. I read it for a literature class, and found myself liking most of the Shakespeare plays. I had read the sonnets before, but only a handful of plays. Twelfth Night was probably my favorite, and I really liked Viola. But I also found myself understanding why Hamlet is still so popular, and why so many of Shakespeare's work get translated into modern movie adaptations. I am still not the biggest fan of Othello though.