Listening order for Shakespeare?

[kate_nepveu]

If I were planning to listen to full-cast recordings of all 38 of Shakespeare's plays, what order would you recommend I do it in? Chronological order, chronological order except with the histories in historical order, thematic, worst-to-best, something else?

If it matters, I've read Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and part of King Lear (the class hated it so much we talked our teacher out of finishing it); and seen one version or another of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Winter's Tale. And The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged. I think that's it.

Comments

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

I'd say do the histories in historical order and the comedies and tragedies in chronological order. I'd start with the histories and then alternate comedies and tragedies.

Then I'd do the sonnets and the rest of his poetry. *wink*

[kate_nepveu]

Why start with the histories?

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

To keep them in one block and get them out of the way of the tragedies and comedies, which are more numerous.