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What would you say are Shakespeare's most essential works?

>> No.16738645

>>16738583
In no particular order:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo & Juliet
Othello
Macbeth
Hamlet
The Sonnets

>> No.16738648

>>16738583
King Lear
Macbeth
Hamlet
Richard II
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsommer Night's Dreame

>> No.16738674

>>16738583
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
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Henry VIII
King John
Richard II
Richard III
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
The Sonnets
A Lover's Complaint
The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
Funeral Elegy by W.S.
The Phoenix and the Turtle

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16738675

>>16738645
>>16738648
>Romeo & Juliet

>> No.16738702

>>16738675
>He doesn't rate the eternal romance
Anon, I...

>> No.16738744
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16738744

>>16738583
Hamel
The Tempest
Romeo & Juliet

>> No.16739112

>>16738583
Hamlet
Macbeth
King Lear
Othello
Coriolanus
Julius Caesar
Romeo and Juliet

Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Richard II
Richard III

Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
The Winter's Tale

>>16738674
or this

>> No.16739115

>>16738583
The ones never written.

>> No.16739130

>>16738645
>>16738648
>>16738674
>>16739112
Any tips for getting into him?

>> No.16739148

>>16738675
Whether or not you like Romeo and Juliet, it is an endlessly referenced piece of literature. Fucking midwit.

>> No.16739157

>>16738583
The Henriads
The Roman Plays

That's it.

>> No.16739207

>>16739130
Dig up his corpse and fuck it

>> No.16739421

>>16739148
Could easily have been written by Jonson or Marlowe for how insipid it is

>> No.16739649

Looking at the responses to this thread I come to realize that /lit/ has shit taste and that this question is a great pleb filter beseeming of the smugness in OP's post.

Only this anon >>16739157 is anywhere close to right.

>> No.16740184

>>16739112
This, but I would add As You Like It

>> No.16740194

>>16738583
Titus
MacBeth (Lady, A Tragedy)
Richard III (A tragedy)
Lear (A comedy)

>> No.16740472

>>16738583
Othello is the most essential play.
and The Comedy of Errors should be read more in schools, preferably replacing the fairytale R&J.

>> No.16740534

>>16738645
This but including King Lear.

>> No.16741089

the one about jews

>> No.16741390

best single play: lear
best entity: the henriad read the henriad and read all of them theyre inseperable

>> No.16741458

>>16739112
How you gonna put Merchant of Venice and not Cymbeline

>> No.16741808

>>16738583
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Henry IV I and II
Henry V
Richard II
Romeo & Juliet
Julius Caesar
Coriolanus
A Midsummer Night's Dream
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
Much Ado About Nothing
The Merchant of Venus
The Tempest
The Sonnets

>> No.16741906

>>16738583
I have always liked Henry V the best, but I think I am alone in that.

>> No.16742335

>>16739130

Read Macbeth and Midsummer Night's Dream first. They're both relatively short, the plots are easy to follow, there aren't many characters to keep track of (that are really important). That's the best starting point. Then, depending on which one you liked more, read the rest of the tragedies or the comedies (that are worthwhile anyway), and then move on to the other genre. The histories aren't really all that great besides the second Henriad. Read that whenever you want.

>> No.16743165

>>16742335
>The histories aren't really all that great besides the second Henriad
u focking wot m8

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16743198

>Romeo and Juliet? Nah bro, that shits gay as fuck. For me, its As You Like It. Hits me in the feels everytime.

>> No.16743207

>>16738583
Niglet
King N
Macnig
Othello
Nigony and Negropatra
Nigry IV and II
Nigard II
Negreo and Nigliet.
Niglius Nigar
A Midniggers Night's Dream
The Negrest

>> No.16743415

>>16743207
Twelfth Nig

>> No.16743437

>>16738645
bizarre