A review by rosekk
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

4.0

With the plays, I was continually conscious that I was reading something that was meant to be performed, which detracted from the experience a little bit. I still enjoyed a lot of them, though I have to confess the histories were not a very entertaining read for me. Pretty much any play where a Duke of Gloucester/Suffolk e.t.c. emerged I found required determination to read. I don't think that's Shakespeare's fault - it's almost certainly me. Other plays I took to well though, and have discovered a few favourites. Since I'm not a huge poetry lover (I really like some poems, but they're vastly outnumbered by the ones I don't care for), so I was pleasantly surprised to find myself enjoying the poems, especially the two longer ones.