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Update - 09 March 2020:

It's been almost a year that I started this project, so I thought I'd re-post the original post to show progress. 

If anyone has any recommendations for additional reading, please let me hear them!

Original Post - 15 April 2019:

I've been dithering about doing this for a while, a couple of years actually. So much so that I've borrowed a copy of the Complete Works from a friend...and this has been sitting on my shelf for almost two years with very little attention being paid to it, apart from reading two or three plays I hadn't read before and using the book for reference otherwise.

Anyway, I think it is time I made a start on discovering the rest of the plays. (I'll probably skip some of the ones I already know.)

Updates (completed/already read - bold):

• The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1589–1591) - 2*
• The Taming of the Shrew (1590–1591) - 2*
• Henry VI, Part 2 (1591) - 3.5*
• Henry VI, Part 3 (1591) - 3.5*
• Henry VI, Part 1 (1591–1592) - 3.5*
• Titus Andronicus (1591–1592) - 1.5*
• Richard III (1592–1593) - 4*
• Venus and Adonis (1592-93) - 4*
• The Rape of Lucrece (1593-94) - 2.5*
• Edward III (1592–1593) - 2*
• The Comedy of Errors (1594) - 3*
• Love's Labour's Lost (1594–1595) - 3.5*
• (Love's Labour's Won (1595–1596)) - Play was referenced but it is presumed that no copy still exists. 
• Richard II (1595) - 3.5*
• Romeo and Juliet (1595) - 3*
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) - 2*
• King John (1596) - 3*
• The Merchant of Venice (1596–1597) - 3.5*
• Henry IV, Part 1 (1596–1597) - 3.5*
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597)
• Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–1598) - 3.5*
• Much Ado About Nothing (1598–1599) - 3*
• Henry V (1599) - 5*
• Julius Caesar (1599) - 5*
• As You Like It (1599–1600) - 2*
• Hamlet (1599–1601) - 4*
• Twelfth Night (1601) - 5*
• Troilus and Cressida (1600–1602)
• Sir Thomas More (1603-1604)
• Measure for Measure (1603–1604)
• Othello (1603–1604)
• All's Well That Ends Well (1604–1605)
• King Lear (1605–1606) 
• Timon of Athens (1605–1606)
• Macbeth (1606) - 5*
• Antony and Cleopatra (1606) - 3*
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1607–1608)
• Coriolanus (1608)
• The Winter's Tale (1609–1611) - 2*
• Cymbeline (1610)
• The Tempest (1610–1611) - 4*
• Cardenio (1612–1613)
• Henry VIII/All Is True (1612–1613)
• The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613–1614)

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Additional Will's World Reads:

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood - 4.5*

Richard of Bordeaux by Gordon Daviot (aka Josephine Tey) - 4*

Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett - 3*

Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography by Diana Price - 2.5*

Shakespeare: A Life in Drama by Stanley Wells - 5*

Why Shakespeare was Shakespeare by Stanley Wells - 5*

Woza Shakespeare! by Antony Sher and Greg Doran - 5*

John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama by Rupert Brooke - 3*

Shakespeare & Co. by Stanley Wells - 3*

Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson - 1*

The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson - 4*

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler - 2*

Actors on Shakespeare: Macbeth by Harriet Walter - 5*

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells

Brutus and Other Heroines by Harriet Walter

Shakespeare, Sex & Love by Stanley Wells

Macbeth by Jo Nesbo

New Boy by Tracy Chevalier

Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard