Shakespeare

So because I took that Chaucer class I couldn't take the Shakespeare one...(but both used fat-ass Riverside editions anyway).

Where to begin? Other sources of GRE Lit Study - namely Vade Mecum and the Princeton Review book - say DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME. Which is true - too much of Shakespeare for only at most 10 questions out of 230 on the test. But that didn't stop me from running down to Waterstone's today and picking up the Norton Anthology of Shakespeare's works just because I wanted to look at the texts themselves. Read passages aloud, find out what "pheeze" means without having to pull up Google. Maybe one play every couple of nights, skip the weird ones you never hear of like Titus Andronicus and boom at least I'll have gone through them by November.

In any case, I'll still be Sparknoting (neologism!) the important plays and a few sonnets, just for character and plot summary. The links will be down below but each play will open up onto a new page. Amusez-vous bien!


Comedies
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Tragedies
Antony and Cleopatra
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
Othello
Romeo and Juliet


Histories
Henry IV (part 1)
Henry IV (part 2)

Romances
The Tempest
The Winter's Tale

Sonnets
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 55
Sonnet 116
Sonnet 130