One of my goals for this summer is to finish reading all of Shakespeare’s 38* plays. Partly in preparation for a class on him I’m taking this fall, but mostly just because I really love Shakespeare. So far I’ve read, seen or acted in 16 of the plays, which is much less than I realized, meaning I have 22 to go. It might seem like a lot but once I get into him I can go through the plays pretty quickly, sometimes more then one a day.

Already Read(16):

• Measure for Measure
• The Merchant of Venice
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Richard II
• Henry V
• Henry VI, part 1
• Richard III - (My favorite.)
• Romeo and Juliet
• Titus Andronicus
• Julius Caesar
• Macbeth
• Hamlet
• King Lear

To Read(22):

• All’s Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It
• The Comedy of Errors
• Love’s Labour’s Lost
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Twelfth Night, or What You Will
• The Two Noble Kinsmen
• The Winter’s Tale
• Henry VIII
• Henry IV, part 1
• Henry IV, part 2
• King John
• Henry VI, part 2
• Henry VI, part 3
• Coriolanus
• Timon of Athens
• Troilus and Cressida
• Othello
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Cymbeline
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre

*Note: This number is debatable as Shakespeare only co-wrote a few of these plays and some question whether some were written by him at all.