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[hermionesviolin]

At Shakespeare on the Common earlier this week year, Cate and I were talking about getting to see multiple versions of the same play in fairly quick succession (this was our 3rd Two Gentlemen of Verona this season) -- "playstorming," she called it.

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.

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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)