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Tag Archives: William Hazlitt
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Henry IV, Part 1
My progress: Shakespeare Reading Project Henry VI, parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew Titus Andronicus The Comedy of Errors Love’s Labour’s Lost Romeo & Juliet A Midsummer Night’s Dream Richard … Continue reading
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Merchant of Venice
My progress: Shakespeare Reading Project Henry VI, parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew Titus Andronicus The Comedy of Errors Love’s Labour’s Lost Romeo & Juliet A Midsummer Night’s Dream Richard … Continue reading
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2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: King John
My progress: Shakespeare Reading Project Henry VI, parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew Titus Andronicus The Comedy of Errors Love’s Labour’s Lost Romeo & Juliet A Midsummer Night’s Dream Richard … Continue reading
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2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Richard II
My progress: Shakespeare Reading Project Henry VI, parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew Titus Andronicus The Comedy of Errors Love’s Labour’s Lost Romeo & Juliet A Midsummer Night’s Dream Richard … Continue reading
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
My progress: Shakespeare Reading Project Henry VI, parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew Titus Andronicus The Comedy of Errors Love’s Labour’s Lost Romeo & Juliet A Midsummer Night’s Dream Midsummer … Continue reading
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Tagged Ballet Shoes, comedy, Harold Bloom, W.H. Auden, William Hazlitt, William Shakespeare
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2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Romeo & Juliet
My progress: Shakespeare Reading Project Henry VI, parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew Titus Andronicus The Comedy of Errors Love’s Labour’s Lost Romeo & Juliet The play starts with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Paglia, Harold Bloom, romantic drama, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, W.H. Auden, William Hazlitt, William Shakespeare
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2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Love’s Labour’s Lost
My progress: Shakespeare Reading Project Henry VI, parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew Titus Andronicus The Comedy of Errors Love’s Labour’s Lost It’s been a long time since I’ve read … Continue reading
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: The Comedy of Errors
My progress: Shakespeare Reading Project Henry VI, parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew Titus Andronicus The Comedy of Errors My aunt Regina was in a production of The Boys from … Continue reading
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“I love to lose myself in other men’s minds. Books think for me.” — Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb was friends with everyone. He knew Coleridge from childhood, Wordsworth, William Hazlitt (great writer and portrait painter – Hazlitt did the painting above), Lamb met Keats, he was inner circle with these guys. He was different, though. He … Continue reading
2026 Shakespeare Reading Project: Titus Andronicus
My progress: Shakespeare Reading Project Henry VI, parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew Titus Andronicus This is body horror at its most horrible. This is the play featuring the following … Continue reading
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