Pursuant to my 50 Things Before 50 list, I shall figure out where I am with the whole ‘read all of the plays’ project. Fortunately, I was not just an English major, but an English major who took a seminar in this very topic. (This would be the same Shakespeare seminar that Mister Husband and I did not meet in.) Of course, plays only count if they have been read, not merely viewed in one form or another. Here goes:

1. The Merchant of Venice
2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
3. The Tempest
4. Cymbeline
5. Hamlet
6. Julius Caesar
7. Macbeth
8. Othello
9. Romeo and Juliet
10. Titus Andronicus
11. Richard II
12. Richard III
13. Henry IV, part 1
14. Henry IV, part 2
15. Henry V

I would have thought I had read more of the comedies than the tragedies, but it appears that the reverse is true. (I suspect, really, that I read several more comedies but forgot them. There’s no way that seminar was that lopsided.) And I’ve done approximately half of the histories, which is better than I would have thought. Which means that sometime in the next 18 years I need to read:

1. Antony and Cleopatra
2. Coreolanis
3. King Lear
4. All's Well That Ends Well
5. As You Like It
6. The Comedy of Errors
7. Love's Labours Lost
8. Measure for Measure
9. The Merry Wives of Windsor
10. Much Ado About Nothing
11. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
12. Taming of the Shrew
13. Troilus and Cressida
14. Twelfth Night
15. Two Gentlemen of Verona
16. Winter's Tale
17. Henry VI, part 1
18. Henry VI, part 2
19. Henry VI, part 3
20. Henry VIII
21. King John