#the tempest

[enchantedbook]

From William Shakespeare's : 'The Tempest' illustratated by Arthur Rackham, 1926

[lualuadraw]

ariel from the tempest but merlin

[linkloki]

[britneyshakespeare]

How many Shakespeare plays have you read/seen?

Zero, only know his works from cultural osmosis

1-4, typical of what you would've read in school

5-10, burgeoning hobbyist numbers

11-15, still a hobbyist but more experienced, including lesser-known works

16-22, making your way downtown, walkin fast, faces pass and you're homebound

23-30, have read most of them by now, with some exceptions

31-36, could very feasibly finish the complete plays soon

37-40, have read the entire canon and perhaps apocrypha, like an obsessed person

Voting ended onJan 4, 2025

I'm curious about people's levels of familiarity; I intend no judgment or elitism and it's absolutely fine not to be a completionist, btw. I didn't think I would've intended to have read them all at age 25; it just sort of happened that after I passed the halfway point in the middle of 2023, I came out of a reading slump and was motivated to finish. Fwiw I consider myself a hobbyist (I am not involved in academia or professional theater) but I realize that that label is usually attributed to people with less experience.

I also have always loved seeing other bloggers' Shakespeare polls where they put certain plays or characters up against each other, but I'm often left wondering if it's really a 'fair' fight all the time if you're putting up something like Hamlet or Twelfth Night against one of the more obscure works, like the Winter's Tale. It's not a grave affront to vote in those polls if you don't know every play, but I am curious about it.

Please reblog for exposure if you vote; I would appreciate it a lot. Also feel free to elaborate on your own Shakespeare journey in tags, comments, reblogs, because I love to hear about other people's personal relationships to literature.

[mrs-beer]

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[obsession-of-aesthetic]

The Tempest by Henry C. Selous (1803–1890) for The Plays of William Shakespeare

[aq2003]

grabbed all of the ebook versions of the folger shakespeare library's annotated versions of shakespeare's plays (+sonnets and poems) and put them all in one place in case anyone is interested