#2025 Reading Challenge: Shakespeare

1. As Sylvia Plath  was  described in Red Comet:
2. “…she hears the muffled drip, drip, drip of time under her pillow.”
3. That is how I feel now about Shakespeare!
4. I would like to read all his plays…in the coming years.
5. This is the first step in 2025:
   
6. It will all feel like homework but I’m going to
7. watch as many of the plays on  GLOBE PLAYER
8. …”streaming” (movies, ballets)
9. …listen to podcasts, and research any book notes (Sparknotes, Cliffnotes etc)
10. …and other books I have about Shakespeare.
11. Making  the challenge more “interactive” will be the fun part!

Sources:

• Penguin Classics Kindle version of individual plays
• The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works: The Complete Works
• Website: Shakespeare Online
• Podcast: University of Oxford “Approaching Shakespeare”
• Audible: The Great Couses “How to Read and Understand  Shakespeare”

Reading Shakespeare: 2025

Optional:

1. Reading the histories:
2. …if I still have enough energy.
3. I’ll have to see how far I come.
4. Source: Stephen Greenblatt’s   “Histories”
5. This is part of  The Norton Shakespeare series.
6. In chronological order of setting, these are:

1. King John
2. Richard II (re-read)
   
3. Henry IV Parts I and II
4. Henry V
5. Henry VI Parts I, II and III
6. Richard III
7. Henry VIII.

Reviews:

1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream  – REVIEW
2. Richard II –  REVIEW
3. Hamlet – REVIEW
4. Othello – REVIEW
5. Macbeth – REVIEW