Ten on Tuesdays: My Shakespeare Plays

This is the Twelfth Night of my blog (seriously!), and I want to be a Passionate Pilgrim and really try to do 30 posts in 30 days.  Ironically, it's been a Comedy of Errors, and I don't want today to be Love's Labour Lost, so I'm going to give this "Ten on Tuesdays" things a stab.

What would be a quick, easy Top Ten for me?  As I look to the shelf to my left, I see my collection so Shakespeare's works.  I don't want to make Much Ado About Nothing, so I'm going to let you Take this as You Like It:  my Top 10 Shakespeare plays.

  1. "King Henry IV, part 2"*
  2. "King Henry IV, part 1"*
  3. "King Henry V"*
  4. "King Richard III"*
  5. "King Lear"
  6. "Julius Caesar"
  7. "Romeo and Juliet"
  8. "The Taming of the Shrew"
  9. "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark"
  10. "The Tempest"

To be fair, it's hard for me to Measure for Measure because I haven't read them all.  But all of you Merry Wives (of Windsor) reading my blog out there, don't get all in a Tempest.  This isn't a Lover's Complaint.  Maybe I'll work on rounding this out over the next couple of years...

I wish I were off to a Midsummer Night's Dream, but unfortunately this is more of a Winter's Tale.  I'm going to go to bed now, or there might need to be some Taming of the Shrew at 6am prayer with 2 Gentlemen from Verona, err, I mean people from my church.   Oh well, All's Well that End's Well.

*These plays form a collection called the Henriad that tells a consecutive story.  The Henriad is my favorite of all of Shakespeare's work, so those four as a collection really made my top four, more than as individual plays.  

1 comment:

  1. Thanks AC! I don't know if you remember this, but as I wrote this I thought about the time I did this for you with Celine Dion songs. Hehehe...

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