Thread 24466900

Whats the best order to read his stuff in? Should I just read the plays and skip the rest?

>>24466900 (OP)
>Should I just read the plays and skip the rest?

No but you might as well treat the plays and the sonnets as two separate bodies of work by two different people.

>>24466900 (OP)
Macbeth is short and easy to follow.
For tragedies Romeo and Juliette, Hamlet and Othello are good ones after Macbeth.
Read the histories and roman plays in chronological order. Everything else you can read in any order you want.

>>24466900 (OP)
I started with a few tragedies and then read Tragedy-Comedy-History in a cycle, condensing the categories or shoehorning dubious classifications as needed.

I recommend paying no attention to chronology, in publication or historicity, except to stay within bounds for the two tetralogies. Some plays can be a real chore if you‘re not in it for the inherent bardolatry and it‘s usually the earlier ones.

>>24466900 (OP)
just read whatever interests you

>>24466900 (OP)
WATCH the plays. There are so many versions that you cannot possibly have the excuse of not being able to find one.

>>24466900 (OP)
Hamlet is a good starting point: small casy, simple plot, masterful use of language and a lot you can dig into.

>>24470719
"Shakespeare is meant to be watched" is the surest sign of a retard who thinks they know what they‘re talking about on this whole topic. Not only was the theater of his time more of a social event with the show running in the background for peoples‘ attention to pop in and out of, with quarto publications for any popular work on the understanding that it would be needed to actually get the story in substance; but reading and watching one (1) single Shakespeare work in its entirety should make clear even without any of this historical background that the poetry is too rich to appreciate and contextualize in the context of the plot at the speed of speaking.

>>24469962
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>>24471917
>with the show running in the background
Balls. If Shakespeare knew anything, it was how to carry the audience with him.
>the poetry is too rich to appreciate and contextualize in the context of the plot at the speed of speaking
The people sitting in the gallery could; plebs in the stalls, not so much.

>>24471917
>i'm a retard and i need everything to be slow, so i can understand what's going on
ok
>>24466900 (OP)
my favs are hamlet, othello, henry v and richard iii

>>24466900 (OP)
start with tillyard the elizabethan world picture

>>24472388
>>24472447
>i can do it fast

No you can‘t. And that you think this is a sign of your own superior intake and not that you‘re too lazy to process it with the deliberation merited is a glowing sign of pure retardation and hubris.

>>24466900 (OP)
>Whats the best order to read his stuff in?
Chronologically, off course.

>>24466900 (OP)
i was filtered by the archaic language

>>24466900 (OP)
How can I even read him if I'm ESL? >.<