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What are the essential Shakespeares? I haven't even read Hamet, and I am ashamed, despite my pretensions of being well read. I don't want to be like this guy https://youtu.be/85TE0K5fgJM, help. Where do I begin, and where should I end?

>> No.12363775

>>12363733
>What are the essential Shakespeares?

>The Merchant of Venice
>Romeo and Juliet
>Henry IV (Both parts)
>Hamlet
>Troilus and Cressida
>Measure for Measure
>King Lear
>Macbeth
>Antony and Cleopatra
>Othello
>The Tempest


and don't forget the sonnets.

>> No.12363783

>>12363733
>where should I end?

and don't end anywhere. keep rereading his work over your lifetime.

>> No.12363811

>>12363733
>End
You start reading and you keep re-reading and keep experiencing that shakeuphoria an immeasurable number of times in your life before you die

I got into Shakespeare watching these two adaptations of Richard III

https://youtu.be/eG5gqA6cxBM

https://youtu.be/cDxnXgYPnKg

and especially fell in love with the Laurence Olivier one. Richard III is very entertaining and has goat dialogues/monologues and from there i kept getting more and more into shakespeare and now i recite Hamlet soliloquys and twelfth night dialogues at work in my head daily. He is legit deserving of the title best writer of all time.

Dont be a fucking pseud who only wants to get shakespeare under his belt and over with, thats not the purpose of literature and you're a much bigger unread pseud pleb than George W Bush with that attitude

>> No.12365376

Lel op is a pseud

>> No.12366085

>>12365376
no-one chooses to be a pseud at least he wants to change

>> No.12366110

>>12363733
It doesn't matter where you start because you're going to read all of it. Just fucking start.

>> No.12366189

>>12363775
You're missing Richard III.

>> No.12366206

>>12363775
>excluding A Midsummer Night's Dream and Julius Caesar

>> No.12366262

I am going to reread the complete works, first time since I was 14.

What order do you guys recommend?

>> No.12366275

>>12363775
Holy fuck this list sucks

>> No.12366440

>>12363775
>
What about Coriolanus?

>> No.12366455

Lear, Macbeth, Timon.

Then the complete works.

>> No.12366464

>>12366085
Do u even know what pseud means?

>> No.12366656

>>12366464
do u?

>> No.12368070

>>12363733
desu I read Hamlet and it was damned depressing, more of a Macbeth guy myself

>> No.12368097

Absolutely essential for any lover of literature?

Ranked in terms of esteem and influence:

Hamlet
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
King Lear
Othello
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice
Antony and Cleopatra
Julius Caesar
As You Like It

>> No.12368098

>>12363733
God damn Bush would haven't been so bad if we'd have kicked the Muslims out instead of invading them. Funny guy for sure.

>> No.12368327

>reading Shakespeare
What folly.
https://youtu.be/VEk1thwejzQ
Look at how radically different and great all 4 versions are. Shakespeare is meant for the stage.

>> No.12368344

>>12368327
This is like saying you can't read Homer it is meant to be read to an audience.

>> No.12369380

>>12368327
>Shakespeare is meant for the stage
>Posts movie adaptations