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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 For Harold Bloom:

CanThousand Literary Critics andMillion Groundlings Be Wrong Yes.


Taking arms against Shakespeare, at this moment, is to emulate Harry Potter standing up to HeWhoMustNotBeNamed.
Simply opposing Lord V won't end him,

The Shakespeare epiphenomenon will go on, doubtless for some time, as J, R. R. Tolkien did, and then wane, Or so one can hope,

The official newspaper of our dominant counterculture, The New York Times, has been startled by Shakespeare's plays into establishing a new policy for its not very literate book review.
Rather than crowd out the Grishams, Clancys, Crichtons, Kings, Rowlings and other vastly popular prose fictions on its fiction bestseller list, the Shakespeare plays will now lead a separate theatre list.
William Shakespeare, the chronicler of such characters as "Hamlet" and "King Lear," thus has an unusual distinction: he has changed the policy of the policymaker.


Imaginative Vision

I read new dramatic literature, when I can find some of any value, but had not tried Shakespeare until now.
I have just concluded "The Comedy of Errors," purportedly the funniest of the lot, Though the play is not well written, that is not in itself a crucial liability, It is much better to see the movie, "The Wizard of Oz," than to read the book upon which it was based, but even the book possessed an authentic imaginative vision.
"The Comedy of Errors" does not, so that one needs to look elsewhere for the play's remarkable success.
Such speculation should follow an account of how and why "The Comedy of Errors" asks to be read.


The ultimate model for "The Comedy of Errors" is "Menaechmi" by Plautus, performed in Ancient Rome.
The play depicts the mistaken identity of a set of twins named Menaechmus, But Plautus' play, still quite performable, was a Roman musical, not an Elizabethan comedy, Shakespeare has taken "Menaechmi" and reseen it in the silly mirror of slapstick, The resultant blend of mistaken identities with cheesy Elizabethan idiocy may read oddly to me, but is exactly what millions of theatregoers and their parents desire and welcome at this time.


In what follows, I may at times indicate some of the inadequacies of "The Comedy of Errors.
" But I will keep in mind that a host are watching it who simply will not watch superior fare, such as Ben Jonson's "The Alchemist" or the "Tamburlaine" plays of Christopher Marlowe.
Is it better that they watch Shakespeare than not watch at all Will they advance from Shakespeare to more difficult pleasures One doubts both possibilities.




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This review is a spoof of Bloom's attack on JK Rowling, which can be found sitelinkhere.


I should also mention that I love Shakespeare, I don't think he'll mind me bringing down his,average rating too much. What an exquisite edition of one of the greatest works in the Western canon, Armed with an authoritative editorial team, Professor Jonathan Bate has reworked all of Shakespeare's plays, as well as his poems.
The footnotes are extensive and cover all meanings of words including the more salacious ones that many school texts leave out, while also providing informative historical and contextual information.


This edition seeks to give us every word attributed to Shakespeare although, as it points out at length, we can't really know what he wrote: all of our current versions come from a variety of sources typeset in his later years, and primarily from the First Folio printed after his death.
Any work of the Bard's is distorted in some way, With appendices and footnotes, notable textual errors or areas of debate are highlighted,

There is so much to love here, Epic tragedies Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear joined by their lesser, but poetically affecting counterparts like Othello, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Titus Andronicus.
Shakespeare plays with and shuffles around comic tropes in his wide variety of comedies: peaks include The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing.


In his more subdued romances, Shakespeare often seems reduced to more typical characters yet imbues than with layer upon layer of subtlety: Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale are particularly splendid examples.
Some of the tragedies and comedies aren't as startling, and some are challenging such as his partsatire Troilus and Cressida but every work brims with characters whose opinions, beliefs and motives are individual, and not simply echoing those of an author.
Beyond these plays lies a staggering cycle of love poems in The Sonnets, as well as his other various poetry which always makes fascinating, lyrical reading.


Capping all this is Shakespeare's incredible cycle of English history, which details the country's fate fromto, through the stories of the English monarchs: their battles, their loves, their lives and the effect their squabbles have over countless citizens.
The cycle begins with the somewhat talky King John far from my favourite work, but well presented in the BBC Complete Works cycle and ends with the autumnal King Henry VIII.
In between are eight plays two tetraologies which encompass the Wars of the Roses, and they are astonishing.
From the private thoughts of the monarch to the most unimportant peasant, Shakespeare captures an age,

The introductions on each play detail cultural successes over the centuries, as well as basic historical information.
I've seen people suggest other aspects that could improve this such as a suggestion of ways to double parts this is defined as the "actor's edition".
Certainly, I can accept that, but as it stands this is already beyond astar piece of work.
A place of honour on my shelf, that's for sure, 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:
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