Saturday, February 6, 2016

Shakespeare Update

Okay, so here's the update on my goal to read the complete works of Shakespeare (or at least the plays). I believe I've been making good progress. I've been reading dramas and histories, most of what I have read are comedies and so there's a lot more dramas and histories to read and I'm trying to do them in chunks with a comedy now and again for relief.
Getting back to the point, here are the plays I've read:
King Lear - depressing, I don't care for tragedies
Henry IV part I - I actually read this in my Shakespeare class but that was a while ago and I'd forgotten a lot. It was alright.
Henry IV part II - I'd never read this before and it was interesting but there again I didn't love it.
Henry V - I watched the Kenneth Branaugh movie version of Henry V as I mentioned previous post and I liked it alright and I'd say the play was similar, there were parts I really enjoyed and other parts not so much.
I'm currently about half way through Othello, another tragedy, more depressing plot.
It is always enjoyable when I stumble across something I hadn't realized was Shakespeare or just something I've heard quoted without the source. 14 and 1/2 plays down and 22 plays to go, stay tuned.