Hamlet
The Illustrated Stratford Shakespeare. All 37 Plays, All 160 Sonnets and Poems has been standing on my bookshelves I think for over 30 years. Unread, that is. I also have all these plays as e-book... Unread of course. Because I don't like to own unread books (certainly not this long), I now decided I would try to read one of the bard's plays or sonnets or whatever once in a while. I started doing this last year, but already there was one of the plays I didn't finish (Julius Caesar).When The Classic Tales Podcast read Hamlet, I thought I would give it a try... and I did enjoy the experience. It seems to be much easier to listen to these plays, than to read them myself. So I finished it in two days, and am proud to say, I finally 'read' Hamlet.
On this page I will keep track of the works by Shakespeare I read (or tried to read) and hopefully the list will grow as time passes, so that one day I will be able to say (proudly yet seemingly careless): "Oh, I have read all Shakespeare's plays and some of his sonnets and poems too."
William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1603)
From Wikipedia: Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.