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Yesterday Sanne from the YouTube channel Books and Quills posted a video talking about William Shakespeare. Rosianna ,friend and Shakespeare enthusiast, recommends 10 of the Bard's plays to her since Sanne decided to read 10 of his plays in 2014.

I am studying English and Geography at university and want to becomen a teacher but that means that I have a lot of courses on English and American literature and I became a huge lover of Shakespeare, his mysterious life and his works. After one lecture about Elizabethan times my mum and I visited The Globe in London and this really started my obsession with everything Shakespeare - yes, I even have a Shakespeare Action Figure.

You can find it here

For many years now each summer when I visit London I go to the Globe to watch one of his plays and am enthralled in the story but I gave up reading his plays or books about him over the years without me really noticing.

But Sanne and Rosianna's video rekindled the spark in me and I decided that I want to start again. My plan is to read at least one of his works each month and since it is already February I need to read two this month. I am not sure which ones I will pick but here is the selection I have:

Comedies

• All's Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It
• Comedy of Errors
• Love's Labour's Lost
• Measure for Measure
• Merchant of Venice
• Merry Wives of Windsor
• Midsummer Night's Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• Twelfth Night
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Winter's Tale

Histories

• Henry IV, Part I
• Henry IV, Part II
• Henry V
• Henry VI, Part I
• Henry VI, Part II
• Henry VI, Part III
• Henry VIII
• King John
• Pericles
• Richard II
• Richard III

Tragedies

• Anthony and Cleopatra
• Coriolanus
• Cymbeline
• Hamlet
• Julius Caesar
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Othello
• Romeo and Juliet
• Timon of Athens
• Titus Andronicus
• Troilus and Cressida

Here is a list of all his plays you can sort by genre, number of words, number of speeches, etc.

I will keep you posted on my progress and which works I picked and I cannot wait to start this adventure and share my experiences with you all.