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5/28/25 - Sonnets 31-35 and The Merry Wives of Windsor (read along with the Texas Shakespeare Company performance), which was a pretty dumb story about two wives getting revenge on a man who sends them identical love letters, and a daughter who who just wants to choose her own husband.

Sonnets 15-19 and The Taming of the Shrew (read along with 1980 BBC play). Kind of amusing, aside from the gaslighting. I sort of see Petruchio's point to beat Katharina at her own game, but it was sad to see her so whipped at the end.

Sonnets 8-14 and The Tempest (which I read along with the 1980 BBC play). It was...odd. Prospero was the original "I did my waiting! Twelve years of it! On this island!"

3/4/25 - finished Sonnets 1-7 and Two Gentlemen of Verona, which was ridiculous. I guess it has a happy ending, but that was more than most of the characters deserved!