The Comedies
| All’s Well that Ends Well | Read | Stage | FPHP | BP PHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHP | OperaPHPHPHPHPHPHPH |
| As You Like It | Read | Stage (3x) | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| A Comedy of Errors | xxx | Stage | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| Love’s Labors Lost | xxx | Stage | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| Measure for Measure | Read | Stage | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| The Merchant of Venice | Read | Stage | Film | xxx | xxx |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | xxx | xxx | xxx | Broadcast Play | xxx |
| A Midsummer’s Night Dream | Read | Stage (2x) | Film | xxx | xxx |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Read | Stage | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| Pericles, The Prince of Tyre | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| The Taming of the Shrew | Read | Stage | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| The Tempest | Read | Stage | Film | Broadcast Play | Opera |
| Twelfth Night | Read | Stage | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| The Two Gentleman of Verona | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| The Winter’s Tale | xxx | Stage | xxx | xxx | xxx |
The Histories
| King John | RDPH | StPHP | FPHP | BP PHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHP | OperaPHPHPHPHPHPHPH |
| Richard II | xxx | xxx | xxx | Broadcast Play | xxx |
| Richard III | Read | Stage (2x) | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| Henry IV, Part I | xxx | xxx | xxx | Broadcast Play (2x) | xxx |
| Henry IV, Part II | xxx | xxx | xxx | Broadcast Play (2x) | xxx |
| Henry V | xxx | xxx | xxx | Broadcast Play | xxx |
| Henry VI, Part I | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| Henry VI, Part II | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| Henry VI, Part III | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| Henry VIII | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
The Tragedies
| Romeo & Juliet | Read (2x) | Stage | FPHP | BP PHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHP | Operatic Adaptation |
| Coriolanus | xxx | xxx | Film | Broadcast Play | xxx |
| Titus Andronicus | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| Timon of Athens | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| Julius Caesar | Read | Stage | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| MacBeth | Read (2x) | Stage (3x) | xxx | xxx | Operatic Adaptation |
| Hamlet | Read (2x) | Stage (3x) | Film | xxx | xxx |
| Troilus and Cressida | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| King Lear | Read | Stage (3x) | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| Othello | Read | xxx | xxx | Broadcast Play | xxx |
| Anthony & Cleopatra | Read | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
| Cymbeline | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx | xxx |
Four Deer Oak 
Just found my way here via your “like” on my blog – thank you for popping by 🙂 I love Shakespeare – my all time favourite is Hamlet. I have fun freaking the French out with the “To be or not to be” speech 🙂
LOVE Shakespeare; I have a Bachelor’s in English Lit and Creative Writing, yet he’s about the only pre-1800 writer I truly love! =) [Voltaire just-barely excepted chronologically, heh]
I took a degree in English too. But I read very little Shakespeare in college and working now, many years later, to not only read through his works, but to see as many Shakespearean plays as I can. That is a slow feat, but maybe one day I’ll be able to claim that I have seen all of them in performance.
You haven’t seen the Much Ado {Emma Thompson} or Macbeth {Patrick Stewart} movies?
Howz this for a bucket list entry: The Huntington Library in Los Angeles has a Shakespeare garden, all the flowers ever mentioned in the plays. ;o)
That garden sounds amazing! Haven’t been in LA for decades but will need to keep this in mind if I’m there in the future.
Have seen neither of the movies you mentioned, although I have seen (via YouTube) most of the Macbeth that Roman Polanski did. Definitely one that I need to find in a better format than YouTube!
Patrick Stewart’s Macbeth is set during the Cold War in an Eastern European country, and it works really well. I watch it at least once a month. ;o)
Thanks for the suggestion!
So, does this mean you haven’t seen Julie Taymore’s film, Titus with Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange? You should pick up the film on Netflix and watch it on a decent TV, but if you can’t: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbpoG092YAQ&feature=relmfu (not my account–I hope the whole thing is there)
Harry Lennix is brilliant as the evil Aaron!
No, I haven’t. Thanks for the recommendation.
Shakespeare bucket list! This is such a fun idea. 🙂
I’m interested to see that you’ve put ‘Troilus and Cressida’ in with the Tragedies. The original editors of the 1609 Quarto and the 1623 Folio couldn’t make up their minds whether it was Comedy, Tragedy or History. I’m teaching the play at the moment and the first question I’ve set for my groups is what genre do they think the play is and why do they think there was so much debate about it in Shakespeare’s day.
Thanks for your comment Alex. It’s an interesting question for discussion and I do wonder how that frames one’s expectations about the work. If you don’t know the classification, does it alter how you perceive it? Does it matter?
I copied the list as they are posted in the complete works volume that I have without thought to how they were categorized. I’m not an expert by any means and don’t know enough about the academic arguments regarding the classifications, but there are some of the plays that I am confused by their classifications as “comedies”. The Merchant of Venice is certainly one of those; I could never look at this as a comedy. although there are comedic elements, given the story line about the forced baptism of Shylock. The Winter’s Tale is another one that I wonder about it’s classification. Perhaps part of this is a modern (and non-academic) construct of “comedy” and “tragedy”. But the bottom line is that it doesn’t matter much to me in terms of enjoyment of the play itself. I would say the same thing about the authorship question: in the end it doesn’t matter to me whether it was Shakespeare who wrote the plays or some other guy named Shakespeare, although it is an interesting debate (or parlor game, depending on one’s point of view). The play is still the thing.
I love this idea! What fun!
Your Shakespeare Bucket List is an awesome idea! I love Shakespeare! Mind if I borrow your idea? =)
No problem Ms. Scribbles. The Bard of Avon “stole” all sorts of ideas for his plays — and I certainly hold no monopoly on trying to read & see every one of his plays!
Artemislexie: I’ve redone my list as a html table. If you’d like the code to put into your blog, please email me. It wasn’t difficult, but it was timeconsuming. All you’ll need to do is change the values of the indiv column entries.
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