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My biggest takeaway from reading the complete works of Shakespeare during the pandemic is that Coriolanus and Measure for Measure are incredibly underrated.

Reviews of Shakespeare’s two “Two Dudes” plays. TLDR: Gentlemen is about a sociopath and in Kinsmen, everyone’s gay.

I read Shakespeare’s three Henry VI plays and I still can’t explain the Wars of the Roses.

Reviews of TItus Andronicus and Timon of Athens, two of Shakespeare’s weirder (and more easily confused) tragedies.

Reviews of Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labor’s Lost, two Shakespeare plays featuring witty intellectuals who surprise themselves by falling in love.

Reviews of As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale, two Shakespeare plays that contrast corrupt, decadent court life and wholesome, natural countryside life.

Reviews of Shakespeare’s obscure, oddball history plays King John and Henry VIII, after reading them for the first time for my Shakespeare book club.