[from June 2009; revised May 2014; March 2015; June 2015]
Here’s the schedule (* means I’ve read the play before; ** means I’ve taught the play before):
Title | Date Written (range?) | Discussion date | |
The Comedy of Errors* | 1590 (? – 1594) | July 2009 | |
Titus Andronicus | 1590 (? – 1594) | August 2009 | |
The Taming of the Shrew** | 1591 (? – 1594) | September 2009 | |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1592 (? – 1592) | October 2009 | |
Henry VI Part 2 | 1591 (? – 1592) | November 2009 | |
Henry VI Part 3 | 1591 (? – 1592) | December 2009 | |
Richard III** | 1592 (1592 – 1597) | January 2010 | |
Love’s Labor’s Lost | 1593 (? – 1597) | February 2010 | |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 1593 (? – 1598) | March 2010 | |
A Midsummer Night’s Dream** | 1594 (1594 – 1598) | April 2010 | |
Romeo and Juliet** | 1595 (? – 1597) | May 2010 | |
King John | 1596 (? – 1598) | September 2010 | |
The Merchant of Venice* | 1596 (1594 – 1598) | October 2010 | |
Richard II* | 1595 (1595 – 1597) | November 2010 | |
Henry IV Part 1* | 1596 (1595 – 1598) | December 2010 | |
Henry IV Part 2* | 1597 (1596 – 1598) | January 2011 | |
Henry V* | 1599 (1599) | February 2011 | |
The Merry Wives of Windsor** | 1597 (1597 – 1602) | March 2011 | |
As You Like It* | 1598 (1598 – 1600) | July 2014 | |
Much Ado About Nothing** | 1598 (1598 – 1600) | September 2014 | |
Julius Caesar** | 1599 (1598 – 1599) | November 2014 | |
Twelfth Night* | 1600 (1600 – 1602) | January 2015 | |
Hamlet* | 1601 (1599 – 1601) | March 2015 | |
Troilus and Cressida | 1602 (1601 – 1603) | June 2015 | |
All’s Well That Ends Well | 1603 (1598 – ?) | August 2015 | |
Measure For Measure* | 1604 (1598 – 1604) | October 2015 | |
Othello** | 1604 (1598 – 1604) | December 2015 | |
King Lear** | 1605 (1598 – 1606) | March 2016 | |
Macbeth** | 1606 (1603 – 1611) | June 2016 | |
Antony and Cleopatra | 1606 (1598 – 1608) | August 2016 | |
Timon of Athens | 1606 (1598 – ?) | November 2016 | |
Pericles Prince of Tyre* | 1607 (1598 – 1608) | January 2017 | |
Coriolanus | 1608 (1598 – ?) | March 2017 | |
Cymbeline | 1609 (1598 – 1611) | May 2017 | |
The Winter’s Tale* | 1610 (1598 – 1611) | July 2017 | |
The Tempest** | 1611 (1610 – 1611) | September 2017 |
COMEDY | TRAGEDY | HISTORY
DARK COMEDY/PROBLEM PLAY
TRAGICOMEDY
Yeah, I’ve played around a little the with sequencing… but only to keep the tetralogies both in order and consecutive (for example, moving The Merry Wives of Windsor to after Henry V so the four histories are together).
Looking at it now, I’m wondering if I should have done something a little more ambitious–maybe a play every 10 days, so that it would wrap up in the course of a single year.
I need to slap myself around: that would be crazy, it would allow no time for real depth in reading (and certainly no time for any of you to follow along)… and I think it would cut WAY too much into family time (which is already at a premium… being a work-from-home dad means there’s very little boundary between home and office, and I spend way too much time “working” as it is).
No, the schedule looks ok…