Blame It On West Side Story…It was nearly the ending of summer, and I was then still eleven. Was playing basketball with my brother and friends. Came into the house for a cold drink and a snack.Heard my sister and her friends making happy sounds. Decided I should investigate. They were watching a movie called “West Side Story.”I heard lots of fun music, saw lots of fun dancing. Although covered in dirt and smelly with sweat, decided to invite myself in and squeezed between two people.Heard about...

Ya'll already knew this was coming because I did the same thing for Oscar but these compilations of my reviews are so damn satisfying to me. The Comedies• As You Like It• The Comedy of Errors• Love’s Labour’s Lost• The Merry Wives of Windsor• A Midsummer Nights’ Dream• Much Ado About Nothing• The Taming of the Shrew• Twelfth Night• Two Gentlemen of VeronaThe Tragedies• Coriolanus• Titus Andronicus• Romeo and Juliet• Julius Caesar• Macbeth• Hamlet• King Lear• Othello• Antony and CleopatraThe Hist...

January:1. Two Gentlemen of Verona (1589–1591) - January 1, 20172 The Taming of the Shrew (1590–1591) - January 5, 20173 Henry VI, Part 2 (1591) - February 1, 2017February:4 Henry VI, Part 3 (1591) - February 3, 2017 5 Henry VI, Part 1 (1591–1592) - January 21, 2017 6 Titus Andronicus (1591–1592) - February 9, 2017 March:7 Richard III (1592–1593) - March 4, 2017 8. The Comedy of Errors (1594) - March 11, 2017 9. Love's Labour's Lost (1594–1595) - March 27, 2017April:10. Richard II (1595) - April...

I plan to read many Shakespeare plays this summer. I won’t complete the full works, but finishing them all is one of my major reading goals. It might take me a few years to do it, but I shall get there eventually!Here’s where I’m up to at the moment:1 Two Gentlemen of Verona 2 Taming of the Shrew 3 Henry VI, part 1 4 Henry VI, part 3 5 Titus Andronicus 6 Henry VI, part 2 7 Richard III 8 The Comedy of Errors 9 Love's Labours Lost10 A Midsummer Night's Dream 11 Romeo and Juliet 12 Richard II ...

Simply put, When you have The Complete Works of William Shakespeare you have one of the best works of literature ever written. I would definitely place it in the top 10 best works of literature of all time. I bought this book at special price from here:
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works...

Celebrity Death Match Special: The Complete Works of Shakespeare versus Deep LearningUbergeek Andrej Karpathy had the bright idea of training a recurrent neural network on the complete works of Shakespeare. It produces remarkably good output for an algorithm which not only knows nothing about Shakespeare, but can't even tell a noun from a verb! Here is the first of the two samples he gives:PANDARUS:Alas, I think he shall be come approached and the dayWhen little srain would be attain'd into bein...

Have I read this book? Only part of it.Even so, why argue about that rating?See bottom of review for a list of the plays in orderWhat follows is little more than the GoodReads description of the edition pictured. But I feel I can do that, since I wrote the description.This tome includes all 37 of Shakespeare's plays, as well as his poems and sonnets. It was produced "for college students in the hope that it will help them to understand, appreciate, and enjoy the works for themselves. It is not i...

Reflecting on the oeuvre of Shakespeare, I can’t shake a perverse idea: the Bard is underrated. And I think this feeling is tied to the contradictory knowledge that he is enormous, creating the master shadow in which all others dissolve. He’s the Platonic Form that has made possible, via subsequent authorial study and unconscious absorption, so many of the variations of what we consider the best in literature. The introspection and characterization of Woolf. The zaniness in Melville, Pynchon, an...

Edward IIIFor anyone saying, "Huh?" right now, let me say that EIII is one of the "Apocryphal Plays" that have been credited wholly or in part to Shakespeare at one time or another but that do not have conclusive proof of authorship by Big Bill Rattlepike. In the Second Edition of the Oxford Shakespeare Complete Works, the whole text of all plays the editors are convinced Shakespeare had a hand in is printed. This means that they have made the brave decision to include Edward III, convinced as t...

I did it.38 plays, 2 long poems, and 154 sonnets in 2462 onion-paper pages. I read them all. ALL. I think I deserve a self-congratulation for this. Yes. Good job!It took me more than two months of intense reading that toughened my wrists and arms from reading it on the train standing, hardened my heart with stony indifference against people's perplexed and peering gazes thrown at me even to the point of leaning in from the side to see what the hell I'm reading, and made me utterly fearless again...