Download And Enjoy The Complete Pelican Shakespeare Designed By William Shakespeare Supplied As Print

that was a quick readfor Yales recently departed Harold Bloom, who could readpages an hour and recall them with his photographic memory.
Long ago I vowed to read all of Shakespeare as I thought it would get easier and more rewarding with age.
So I recently bought Longmans door stop because I liked the binding and it includespages of commentary by Shakespearean scholar David Bevington.
One of myNew Years resolutions is to read at least one or two works a year, so I will be gradually adding entries to this review.


“HAMLET”January
I decided to start with “Hamlet” because I just read a biography of John Quincy Adams and it was his favorite work.
Atlines, it is Shaekespeares longest play, Harold Bloom considers “Hamlet” to be “the most extraordinary single work of Western literature that I have ever read”PBS interview.


Reading “Hamlet” cold without brushing up on my Elizabethan English made for tough sledding, but my first reward was discovering that my favorite literary quote came from this work: “This above all: to thine own self be true”.
. I still cant appreciate iambic pentameter, but I know a good couplet when I see it:
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go,.
To my great surprise, neither of these lines are uttered by Hamlet,

I didnt find Bevingtons supporting commentary to be as enlightening as I had expected, so I then read Bloomspages on Hamlet in “How to Read and Why”.
Blooms final thought is my favorite, “Whether we ourselves expect annihilation or resurrection, we are likely to end caring about our name.
Hamlet, the most charismatic and intelligent of all fictive characters, prefigures our hopes for courage at our common end” p.
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I concluded my reintroduction to Shakespeare by watching Lawrence Olivers wonderful interpretation and modest abbreviation of “Hamlet”.
Pure joy. Let me know if you find a better way to spend,hours on YouTube!
Simply put, When you have The Complete Works of William Shakespeare you have one of the best works of literature ever written.
I would definitely place it in the topbest works of literature of all time, I bought this book at special price from here:
sitelink amazon. com/CompleteWorks And so my hypothesis is wrong, I was going to say that my Yale Shakespeare makes Bottom's Dream look like kiddieplay, But, no. Onlypages. Two column. But it is BIG. FAT and TALL and THICK, . . BUT, you'll notice that theeditions of the Complete Shakespeare as listed on gr have garnered a total of,Ratings amps.
In other words, there are more people who have read ALL of Shakespeare than are dreamt of in your dreams of slender volumes.
Bottom's Dream ain't so bad, . Ya'll already knew this was coming because I did the same thing for sitelinkOscar but these compilations of my reviews are so damn satisfying to me.


The Comedies
sitelinkAs You Like It
sitelinkThe Comedy of Errors
sitelinkLoves Labours Lost
sitelinkThe Merry Wives of Windsor
sitelinkA Midsummer Nights Dream
sitelinkMuch Ado About Nothing
sitelinkThe Taming of the Shrew
sitelinkTwelfth Night
sitelinkTwo Gentlemen of Verona

The Tragedies
sitelinkCoriolanus
sitelinkTitus Andronicus
sitelinkRomeo and Juliet
sitelinkJulius Caesar
sitelinkMacbeth
sitelinkHamlet
sitelinkKing Lear
sitelinkOthello
sitelinkAntony and Cleopatra

The Histories
sitelinkKing John
sitelinkRichard II
sitelinkHenry IV Part
sitelinkHenry IV Part
sitelinkHenry V
sitelinkHenry VI Part
sitelinkHenry VI Part
sitelinkHenry VI Part
sitelinkRichard III
sitelinkHenry VIII

The Late Romances
sitelinkCymbeline
sitelinkPericles, Prince of Tyre
sitelinkThe Tempest
sitelinkThe Two Noble Kinsmen

The Problem Plays
sitelinkAlls Well That Ends Well
sitelinkMeasure for Measure
sitelinkThe Merchant of Venice
sitelinkTimon of Athens
sitelinkTroilus and Cressida
sitelinkThe Winters Tale

The Poetry
sitelinkThe Sonnets
sitelinkA Lovers Complaint
sitelinkThe Narrative Poems

It took me four years to finish Willie's entire body of work, and even though there were some ups and downs, ultimately, I am more than happy that I followed through with this project.
I learned so much along the way about literature, about England, about myself, about reviewing books, about researching and doing secondary reading.
Willie's works are truly a treasure,
There's special providence in the fall of a sparrow, If it be now, 'tis not to come if it be not to come, it will be now if it be not now, yet it will come.
The readiness is all.

If readiness be all, then this volume is a staple on any bookshelf.
Ready to be opened for quick quote checks, ready to be heaved at home intruders it's really heavy, it

is useful in so many ways.
It stays open on the window shelf, so the afternoon breeze can choose its special pages.
Additionally, there are several sections dealing with Shakespeare's life, the Plague, Elizabethan art, and the people of the Great Poet's time.


The extras are worthwhile, For instance, Tudor London was a genuinely filthy place, but as editor G, B. Harrison makes clear, it was still beautiful in its own way, There was no smog to grime the buildings, halftimbered homes stood on narrow lanes, and the Thames was still clear.
The old City was all but wiped out in the Great Fire of, Maybe that's why I love having this huge volume on hand, so I can imagine olden times filled with silver tongues.


Confession: I also use this to come up with the many passwords I need for all of my online apps.
That's because the bottom of each page has highlighted words and their meanings, It helps.

Book Season Year Round thitherward
Finished!!

This took meyears, 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 Nights 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 neer be younger.
The Taming of the Shrew

Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
Much Ado About Nothing

Favorite sonnet:
Read so far:

The Tempest
The Two Gentlemen of VeronaStars It's been a while seen I've read Shakespeare.
Was this one easier, or had I gotten better at oldtimey English sitelink

It all ended so fast.
I feel like it's just January, but look at the calendar it's December! You surely remember earlier in the year when I said I had put a challenge for myself.
This was the Shakespeare Challenge, in which I had to read all the works known by William Shakespeare.
Guess what I finally read them all!

It started in January, I was bored and I didn't know what to read, One day I went to the library and checked out a book that containedof Shakespeare's best plays.
I read it and soon after I told myself I needed to read more of his works.
Thus, I got another book: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare,months after, I finally managed to read them all,

The task of reading Shakespeare's works was not as difficult or tedious as it seems to be.
It took me long because I was most of the time busy and didn't have time to read, so I read them inbetween classes and studying.
To my surprise, I loved some of the plays, others disturbed me, and others made me laugh out loud.


The first plays I read were the most popular ones, and were the ones I enjoyes the most.
The tragedies worked better for me than the comedies, with the exception of Romeo and Juliet, which I did not despise but didn't love either.
My favourite ones are probably Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and A Midsummer's Night Dream,

About the historical plays, I can say they were harder to read because the tone was more serious and they were not meant to entertain, but they were worth reading all the same.
I think the best ones here were the ones about Richard II and III,

As for the poems, they were good too, They were beautiful, and this is said by someone who is not used to read poetry.


I tell you, this challenge is one of the best I've put to myself.
For next year, I'm not sure if I'll put more aside the Goodreads one because of my studies, but I certainly will read more classics for example something by Jane Austen.
This year's goal is to attempt to read all of Shakespeare's work

COMEDIES
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
Love's Labours Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale

HISTORIES
Henry IV, part
Henry IV, part
Henry V
Henry VI, part
Henry VI, part
Henry VI, part
Henry VIII
King John
Richard II
Richard III

TRAGEDIES
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus

THE COMPLETE POEMS
Sonnets
A Lover's Complaint
The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
A Funeral Elegyless.