One of the remarkable things that struck me this week, as I sat down to read Julius Caesar, was that I’m over halfway through my...

I had to take a couple of weeks off from my Shakespeare Challenge. Work has really picked up on all fronts so it seemed sensible to take...

Henry V holds a special place in my heart, as the first play I ever directed professionally. That was seven years ago, and I still...

Having struggled the past couple of weeks to make my way through the Henry IV plays, it was an absolute joy to read Much Ado About...

The first little blip in my Shakespeare-A-Week Challenge. You’ll have to trust that I did actually read Henry IV Part 2 last week (I did,...

For whatever reason this week has felt like the hardest week so far to squeeze in my Shakespeare reading. Whilst part of this is due to...

The Merchant of Venice is a play I haven’t properly engaged with since I studied it for GCSE English. I remember seeing an amateur...

King John is very frustrating play. It is a play with a number of good scenes, good characters and good speeches but which never really...

I really think Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s most brilliantly written plays. One of only a handful of his plays written entirely in...

Like last week with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this was a play that I knew incredibly well. I have been in two (very) different...

We’re definitely entering some of Shakespeare’s ‘glory years’ here with three of his plays that I probably know the best all happening in...

In contrast to Comedy of Errors last week, Love’s Labour’s Lost is a play I know reasonably well – I’ve seen it a couple of times, read...

Comedy of Errors is the first of the plays I have read so far in this challenge that I had no prior experience of. All of the others I...

I’m seven weeks into my challenge to read a Shakespeare play a week and this is the first week where I have felt like I was truly reading...

So, we’re 6 weeks into my challenge to read a Shakespeare play a week and we’re back to Henry VI! This time, rewinding time and going...

I must admit I wasn’t especially looking forward to reading this one. Although I’ve never read it before, I have seen a couple of...

I remember enjoying The Two Gentlemen of Verona before and wondering why it is so rarely performed, returning to it I feel much the same....

I really enjoyed reading Henry VI: Part III this week. Where Part II felt underdeveloped and confused, Part III feels like the first time...

Yes, you have read that correctly! My play for this week is Henry VI Part II, believed to have been written before both Part I...

I start my Shakespeare challenge with one of his most problematic plays (to a modern audience anyway), The Taming of the Shrew. Believed...