I remembered doing that "Shakespeare plays you have read or seen" meme a while back and was curious to pull it up and update it.
Apparently I'd only seen a few ASP shows at the time, so my list has significantly increased, even without this year's ALL The Shakespeare.
Because some of this stuff I don't even remember (apparently I saw Two Gentlemen of Verona for the first time when I was at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2007? oh, wait, my records say "Two Noble Kinsmen," I must have goofed when I did the meme last time), I decided to to back through my Shakepeare tag and link to my writeups of all the plays (though I have been behind on writeups for, oh, years).
In August 2012, I said, "3rd performance of Coriolanus I've seen and I still get excited watching it (which I wasn't sure would be the case). And now I want to read lots of commentary on the play because I have lots of thinky thoughts."
I have known for some time that Twelfth Night and Macbeth, which used to be my favorite Shakespeare plays, I've become less enamoured of on repeated viewings -- but I hadn't really thought much about what I would currently posit for my favorite Shakespeare play(s). I think it is arguably true that Coriolanus is my current favorite.
In going back through these entries, I think Titus Andronicus (baby's first ASP show!) is possibly my second-favorite.
Bold the ones you've seen stage productions of, italicize the ones you've seen movies of, and underline the ones you've read or listened to.lignota's addition: *asterisk the ones you've performed in or directed. (
angevin2's academically-inclined addition: I'm also marking the ones I've taught or done reasonably serious scholarly work on with a +plus sign. Also I am counting readthroughs as performances, because I am totally into readthroughs.)
All's Well That Ends Well
- UMass Amherst (March 2008)
Antony and Cleopatra
- read in 10th grade English
- ASP (May 2011)
As You Like It
- read in college Shakespeare class senior year
The Comedy of Errors
- read in grade 11 high school elective
- Shakespeare on the Common (August 2009)]
Coriolanus
- Old Vic (July 2003)
- read in college Shakespeare class senior year
- ASP (March 2009)
- Shakespeare on the Common (August 2012)
Cymbeline
- ASP (February 2011)
Hamlet
- read in AP English grade 11
- saw Emerson's "A King of Infinite Space: Hamlet in a Nutshell" production (November 2012), which doesn't exactly count as having seen the play -- I've seen The Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [IMDb] as well as Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead [IMDb], but I won't see a full production of Hamlet until ASP does it and I have to
Henry IV, Part I
- read in grade 11 high school elective
- read in AP English grade 12
- Industrial Theatre (July 2007)
- saw ASP's "The Coveted Crown: Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 in repertory" (Part 1, October 2010)
Henry IV, Part II
- read ... sometime
- saw ASP's "The Coveted Crown: Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 in repertory" (Part 2, November 2010)
Henry V
- ASP (February 2008)
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
- read in 9th grade English
King John
- ASP (June 2008)
King Lear
- read in grade 11 high school elective (except we quit partway through)
- read on my own
- read in 2 concurrent Smith College classes (Tellings & Retellings; and Literature, Folklore, and Fakelore)
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth
- read in AP English
- read in college Shakespeare class senior year
- NHS (May 2002)
- ASP all-female production (November 2007)
- ASP (October 2012)
Measure for Measure
- RSC (August 2003)
The Merchant of Venice
- ASP (November 2008)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
- ASP (December 2011)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- open-air performance in London (August 2004)
- Hampshire College production
- the Were the World Mine film [IMDb]
- ART's The Donkey Show (October 2009)
- ASP (January 2010)
- A.S.S. (The Anarchist Society of Shakespeareans)'s 1960's version (June 2011)
Much Ado about Nothing
- NHS production (November 2005)
- ASP production (May 2009)
- the Joss Whedon film (July 2013)
Othello
- read in ENG 199 at college
- saw the Julia Stiles O [IMDb]
- ASP (March 2010)
- Shakespeare on the Common (August 2010)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- ASP (April 2013)
Richard II
Richard III
- all-female performance at the Globe in London (August 2003)
- all-male repertory at the Huntington (May 2011)
Romeo and Juliet
- read in 9th grade English
- saw the Private Romeo film {IMDb}, but I don't think that counts
The Taming of the Shrew
- read in paternal grandmother's book group
- ASP (October 2009)
- all-female Harvard-Radcliffe production (October 2012)
The Tempest
- read in grade 11 high school elective
- NHS production
- Magdalen College Oxford (July 2003)
- ASP (April 2008)
Timon of Athens
- ASP (May 2010)
Titus Andronicus
- ASP (April 2007)
- Harvard-Radcliffe (September 2012)
Troilus and Cressida
- ASP (May 2012)
*Twelfth Night
- performed in high school production
- read in grade 11 high school elective
- Mt. Holyoke (September 2002)
- Magdalen College Oxford (July 2003)
- ASP (October 2011)
Two Gentlemen of Verona
- ASP (December 2012)
- musical at Emerson (April 2013)
- Shakespeare on the Common (July 2013)
The Winter's Tale
- Theatre@First (May 2009)
