What Do I Read Next? | 
The muckety-mucks at #shakespearereadalong HQ have been chatting about our upcoming reads. Here's what we are thinking!
🎭Merchant of Venice
🎭Henry V
🎭Timon of Athens
🎭A comedy (title TBD)
🎭Henry VI (parts I, 2 & 3)
We thought a marathon read of Henry VI trilogy might keep the momentum going. That said, it's a lot of Henry! PLEASE give us your thoughts, concerns, suggestions!
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mollyrotondo This looks great to me! 5y
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merelybookish @mollyrotondo Oh good! Not afraid of a little (lot) of history? 5y
merelybookish We have also talked about experimenting with our reading schedule for the Henry VI series - like maybe instead of an Act/week, we'd divy it up according to pages...but that is still up for discussion. 5y
mollyrotondo @merelybookish haha not at all! I don‘t get enough history in my life right now so this in Shakespeare form is perfectly okay for me lol 5y
merelybookish Also, we have 4 comedies left and figured we could do a vote. 5y
merelybookish @mollyrotondo Great! A very specific piece of history but history nonetheless! 5y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Works for me, I think grouping the histories that go together, together works well. 5y
LitStephanie I like reading the Henry VI plays back to back. 5y
Cuilin Love this line up. Especially grouping the Henry‘s. 👍 5y
catebutler I‘m looking forward to this line-up! 5y
Daisey Sounds good, and I think keeping the connected histories together makes sense. 5y
merelybookish @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @LitStephanie @Cuilin @catebutler @Daisey Oh good! I'm glad it sounds appealing. We added the comedy between Timon and Henry VI to lighten the mood but we don't have to do it. We could dive right into Henry VI if that's preferable. We could comedy for afterwards when we'll definitely need a change of pace! 5y
TheBookHippie Looks good! 5y
Trashcanman When's it starting??? 5y
merelybookish @Trashcanman We start Merchant of Venice on the 30th. 5y
Trashcanman @merelybookish thank you 🤗💥 5y
MoonWitch94 I think that sounds good. Good idea with Henry! 5y
Graywacke Thanks @merelybookish Glad to see enthusiasm for the histories! 5y
jewright I like it! 5y
batsy Thank you all for your organising! This schedule looks great. I need more history in my reading diet 🥦🥬 5y
GingerAntics So glad to see everyone excited about the history plays. Maybe we were just having trouble with Henry IV. 5y
merelybookish @batsy Lots of veggies coming your new way! 5y
merelybookish @Graywacke @GingerAntics Maybe we're the one who aren't enthusiastic about history plays. 🙈 5y
erzascarletbookgasm Line up looks good. 👍 A marathon of Henry(s)! It‘s good to have a comedy in between the histories. 5y
GingerAntics @merelybookish @Graywacke maybe. 🤷🏼♀️ They never seems as good to me as the real history. Maybe that‘s my own bias, though. 5y
batsy @GingerAntics @merelybookish @Graywacke His history plays tend to be my least favourite but our most recent one (Julius Caesar) has got me excited for more ... I might change my tune once we start 😂 5y
GingerAntics @batsy that one is actually classified as a tragedy. Those tend to be more fun, at least for me. I wonder if we reclassified the histories as tragedies (because let‘s be real, they all end up dead anyway right?) we might like them better? 🤷🏼♀️ 🤣😂🤣 I‘m not sure what it is with the histories. I like some of them, admittedly. All the Hanks though. Ugh. Maybe I just have a thing against Hank 4 because he did my Richard wrong!!! I guess we‘ll see 5y
GingerAntics @merelybookish @graywacke wait, who is leading Hank 5, or am I leading two in a row? I know we talked about trading off for the marathon, but I think I‘m getting confused now. 5y
batsy @GingerAntics Oh! Yes probably if we reclassified them as tragedies it would appear better 😂 5y
merelybookish @GingerAntics It is my turn in the rotation so I figured I was up. I got the sense you didn't want to be the only person responsible for leading the history reads. But if you'd like to do it, that's okay too. 5y
GingerAntics @merelybookish I‘m good with whatever. I know I was only leading history reads for a while in there. 5y
GingerAntics @batsy I can‘t remember now if I liked Hal. I think I liked him better than his father. Maybe that‘s what I‘m remembering. My dislike of Hank. 5y
Graywacke @merelybookish @GingerAntics I think that leaves me Timon - or at least I‘ll volunteer here. 5y
GingerAntics @merelybookish would you rather lead Henry V or the Comedy? I‘ll do whichever you don‘t want and then we‘ll each take part of Henry VI. 5y
GingerAntics @Graywacke you did such a good job with Titus, I think it‘s fitting you do Timon, too. 5y
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