#i also realized i haven't read a proper tragedy since 2020 lol. w king lear
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i think reading the first three shakespeare henriad plays back-to-back-to-back has broken my brain for the last three months
#and i read shakespeare's book: the making of the first folio (2023) by chris laoutaris in between r2 and 1h4....#april may and june have been highly shakespearean months for me#i haven't read as much shakespeare in recent years as i had been when i first received the riverside shakespeare so i was feeling#some kind of way. wanted to make up for it.#i always tried to read at least one play a year#but now i have a problem. i've read 20 plays and 7 of the plays i have read are english histories#which is too high of a number for my liking. THE HISTORIES HAVE BROKEN MY BRAIN!!!!!!#tales from diana#i have only read five (5!!) of the proper comedies#7 comedies if you count romances as comedies#oh god. i need to do smth about that number#perhaps i should read a comedy before i go onto henry the fifth even though i reallyam looking forward to it....#that's like everyone's favorite play in the henriad seemingly#idk this series as been really good so far#i think richard ii might still be my favorite but henry iv part 1 had some really great moments too#henry iv part 2 was a bit slow in the beginning but it had a great ending#i also realized i haven't read a proper tragedy since 2020 lol. w king lear#i honestly barely remember king lear... i should watch a production of it soon#idk i read king lear in the beginning of the pandemic so that's fogged up w WEIRD memories and. idk#i should probably reread it someday but right now there's just so much else i want to get to read first#king lear wasn't my favorite when i was reading it but that might've just been. hard to get into bc of the state of the world#i did in fact read it bc shakespeare wrote it during the plague but. that was not of comfort. to say the least#i told myself i'd take at least a month after finishing henry iv part 2 to read other things that ive been slacking on#particularly other plays. i have a lot of drama i want to read that is NOT shakespeare. i do. i do have other playwrights i like#gonna start by reading some plays from my norton anthology of drama and just. kick back
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