Welcome to the Shakespeare 2020 Project. I envision this as a public reading group. Read the complete works throughout the year, or just drop in for your favorite plays or poems. You can choose to receive emails (never more than two per week, promise!) with updates on what we are reading, what is coming next, and so on. Along the way, we’ll have videos, artwork, film recommendations, and more about the Shakespearean works we encounter together.
Here’s how this came about: I wanted to read the complete works of Shakespeare in 2020. Although I’ve read and/or seen the occasional Shakespeare play performed over the years, I haven’t read the complete works for 20 years. If I was taking this on, I thought it would be fun to invite everyone else to join me. Whoever wants to. If you want to go all-in and read along with me the entire year, I would love that. If you want to join in occasionally, that’s great too. All are invited, at any level.
Let’s do this! We start January 2 with Twelfth Night… use the form to sign up for email updates.
I want to join in!
I was a General and Comparative Literature major (UVA ’81). I have saved my anthology texts, planning to someday reread them, knowing how much richer the reading would be for me because of my lived experience and my wide reading since graduation. Thanks for this invitation! I don’t know how much or how little I will read, but the idea of a public reading group appeals to me.
I realize that I read a lot of content (mostly online and rarely longer pieces) so I anticipate that this will be a profitable challenge!
I’m in! My college professor Pamela Mason has footnotes on the Macbeth ! looking forward to rereading
I’ll give it a go!
I will give it a go!
A great idea. I’ll give it a try. And encourage others.
I’ve wanted to do this for a while. Let’s do this!