Hello, internet perusers who I hope are Shakespeare readers!
My name is Whitney, and I recently graduated with a bachelor of arts in history and English. I usually prefer reading 19th- and early 20th-century novels, but since I started reading Shakespeare seriously two years ago – and especially since seeing a few plays performed in England – I’ve thought it would be quite an accomplishment to read every single play.
But I knew I’d stop after one or two if I didn’t have company, and I thought some schoolmates and friends who went to England with me would like to do the same thing, and that’s how we got here.
Enjoy.
Shakespeare plays I had read before this project: The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, Richard III, 1 Henry IV, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Winter’s Tale.
Favorite plays: Richard III, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream – not necessarily in that order.
Lease favorite plays: King Lear. I just don’t like it.
Favorite English historical figure: Oliver Cromwell. Why? No politics here; I simply played him in a fictional trial in an AP European History class. I was the only one who dressed up except for the judges, who wore bright green graduation gowns. I was acquitted, although in recent years I’ve come to realize that I shouldn’t have been… But that’s neither here nor there.
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