Reading and memes

[redbird]

There's this "how many of these hundred books have you read, and which of them did you love?" going around my friendslist. Looking at people's posts, I have to ask: have that many of you actually read Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Cymbeline, and Titus Andronicus?

(I have seen Cymbeline on stage.)

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, no, and half. (I desperately want to see the film Titus from a few years ago.)

As another commenter pointed out, the first two are not the best of Shakespeare's works, but I figure even he is allowed some clunkers.

[redbird]

Everyone is allowed clunkers. I was just wondering how many people could actually say they had read the complete works of Shakespeare, including poems other than the sonnets.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Oh! That's different. I've read Titus and good chunks of Cymbeline and Venus and Adonis (because my parents' edition of the Complete Works was one of my favorites, growing up) -- but I have also not read some of the less marginal choices, notably Julius Caesar.