I am still holding out hope that I will finish my Crazy Shakespeare Project by year's end, but it will take some determination. I have 4.7 plays and a couple of the longer poems to go.
I've been stuck on Coriolanus -- by far my least favorite of the plays I've read so far this year. The thing about Shakespeare is that you have to keep moving forward through the parts you don't like. They never last all that long, and if you set it aside to come back to it later, you have to retrace your steps through those parts so you can remember what was happening. This is a lesson I first learned in 2004 while reading Merry Wives of Windsor, which might be Item #1 on the List of Works Demonstrating That Sometimes Shakespeare Totally Phoned It In. Maybe not #1. But it surely did feel that way in 2004.
Anyway, I am plowing through Coriolanus. I am finding, as I had hoped, that Shakespeare becomes easier reading the more Shakespeare I read. Whether or not I finish the complete works this year, Coriolanus will be the dozenth play I've read in 2011. It was a fun idea, even if it takes me until 2012 to accomplish.
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