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My score...Comedies
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labor's Lost
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merry Wives of Windsor
As You Like It
All's Well That Ends Well
Histories
The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
The Life and Death of King John
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
Tragedies
Timon of Athens
Coriolanus
Romances
Pericles
Cymbeline
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Poems
Venus and Adonis
The Phoenix and Turtle
A Lover's Complaint
I know there are other would-be Shakespeare completionists; let's hear which plays did or did not live up to the hype and which lesser-known plays are worth reading. Personally, my favorites are Twelfth Night, Henry IV Pt. 1, and Hamlet and runners-up are Measure for Measure, Henry V, Lear, and Romeo and Juliet. Othello and Macbeth didn't quite live up to their reputations, but that might be because I read those without the benefit of class/book group discussion, or because I had such high expectations going in. I love the gore in Titus Andronicus and...something- the balanced representation of two opposing camps, perhaps- in both Henry VIII and Julius Caesar. The Taming of the Shrew was just frustrating and I'm sick of A Midsummer Night's Dream, having covered it in every class that touched on Shakespeare.
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labor's Lost
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Taming of the Shrew
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
The Merry Wives of Windsor
As You Like It
Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Troilus and Cressida
Histories
The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
The Life and Death of King John
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
Tragedies
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Othello, the Moor of Venice
King Lear
Macbeth
Timon of Athens
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Romances
Pericles
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Poems
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Phoenix and Turtle
A Lover's Complaint
Sonnets