Shakespeare Plays count 2012

[thisbluespirit]

Because I decided in 2011 that I was going to try and acquaint myself with as much Shakespeare as possible (using the BBC Shakespeare, generally). I'm putting this here as I don't expect to post about them individually, but if anyone is interested you can comment here if - and I did make a pact with lizzie_marie_23, so this will be proof of progress!


Plays I Know
Romeo & Juliet
Twelfth Night
Henry V
Henry IV Pt 1
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labours Lost
(Macbeth and Midsummer Night's Dream partially. Or by osmosis.)


Plays Now Watched
2011
The Two Gentlemen of Verona

2012
Julius Caesar
Measure for Measure
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Richard III
Cymbeline
King Lear
Henry IV Part II
The Merchant of Venice
The Comedy of Errors
Timon of Athens
Henry VIII

[Re-watched:
Henry V
Henry IV part 1]

2013
Hamlet
Henry VI Part 1
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 3

2014
King John

2015
Richard II

2016
[Re-watched Twelfth Night]

2017
The Tempest
Pericles Prince of Tyre

2018
Coriolanus

2019
The Winter's Tale

2020
The Taming of the Shrew

Comments

[wytchcroft.livejournal.com]

well you know me for a Shakespeare glutton and i just watched the latest film version of Coriolanus with Ralph Fiennes. Not a lot of humour!

Rewatching Sophocles on youtube i noticed David Collings in the chorus (among a stellar cast of 1970s beeb uber-thesps).

[thisbluespirit]

Was it good, though? Sounds interesting. I haven't got to Coriolanus yet, but I do plan to make it through all of them if I can!

Ah, yes, I think somebody mentioned that before. I'm still not too good at watching stuff online, but I must definitely watch that as well. :-)

[ernest]

This is such a good spread, and I'm almost certain you're ahead of me now -- I still mostly stick to the comedies and tragedies, though I've seen a lot of different versions of each one.

I looked it up and we made our pact in summer of 2012 because I asked for story prompts and you told me all the Shakespeare plays you'd seen.

[thisbluespirit]

I looked it up and we made our pact in summer of 2012 because I asked for story prompts and you told me all the Shakespeare plays you'd seen.

Ah, is that what it was? I had the entry and I knew there must have obviously been some conversation at some point.

It's a bit of a mix, because I used the BBC Shakespeare - they're a little old for some people, but as I can't get out & find it hard to read the plays cold, they include every work that was canonical in 1980 and are often close to full text, plus more old character actors I like! So, basically, I just got whichever of them was going cheapest second hand on Amazon, or I found in a charity shop! (The 2 & 3 Henry VIs were like 1p +p&p! Poor Henry VI; they were good ones too. Jane Powell's direction across that tetralogy was really strong & kept emphasising both the power and lack of power of the women throughout.)

I've slowed down (as you see), but I actually found The Winter's Tale in a charity shop the other day and am really looking forward to that in the New Year when hopefully I have more brain.

Of course, now I can hardly remember the ones I watched first... :-D