When I started this blog, I was hoping to discover why Shakespeare is so famous, so timeless, and why he is so consistently considered to be the greatest writer of all time. More than a year and a half after beginning this project, and 38 plays later, I feel like I have barely scratched the surface. Even so, I do…
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Best of the Bard: My top 6 favorite Shakespeare plays
When I started this project, I was curious to see if I would find any new favorite Shakespeare plays, or if my favorites would still be the same ones that I already loved. As I was making this list, I realized that it’s the plays I am most familiar with that I love the most (in general). That hardly seems…
Best of the Bard: Skipping and second chances
In my post today, I wanted to share a couple of other random bits that I wanted to mention but don’t necessarily deserve their own posts. I’d love to hear what you think of these! Plays you can skip: I really hesitated to list some plays that I thought readers can skip, because all of Shakespeare’s plays have a kind…
Best of the Bard: Shakespeare’s Best Passages and Soliloquies
It is not for nothing that Shakespeare is called a poet as much as he is called a playwright or a writer. Nor is it for nothing that he is known as THE Bard – not just A Bard. His oeuvre contains some of the most beautiful passages that have ever been written in English. After reading all of Shakespeare’s…
What’s next?
findingthebard: Wow. Well, how about that, eh? 38 plays read and written about. Take a look at the Playlist (I still think that’s clever lol) to catch up. It took me longer than the year I originally planned on, but you know. I still made it! I really hope you enjoyed following along, and that you maybe found one or…
Best of the Bard: “Most likely to…” awards for every Shakespeare play
I’ve got a few more posts coming up in the Best of the Bard series, including my favorite plays and a post about what I learned from this experience. For today, I wanted to have a little fun by providing the list of plays and then assigning each of them a “Most likely to…” award. Let me know what you…