Shakespeare Past Readings

2026-2027

  • Timons of Athens
  • Richard II
  • Richard II

2025-2026

  • Othello
  • All’s Well that Ends Well
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • As You Like It
  • Doctor Faustus
  • Doctor Faustus
  • Coriolanus
  • Coriolanus
  • Timons of Athens

2023–2024

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • King Lear
  • Pericles
  • Measure for Measure
  • Henry VI
  • Richard III
  • Sonnets or Great Speeches
  • The Winter’s Tale
  • Troilus and Cressida

2022–2023

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • King Lear
  • Henry VIII
  • Sonnets

2021–2022

    • Edward II (by Christopher Marlowe)
    • Hamlet
    • The Tempest
    • Love’s Labour’s Lost
    • Great Speeches
    • Romeo and Juliet
    • Julius Caesar
    • Antony and Cleopatra

2020–2021

  • King John
  • Richard II
  • Henry IV
  • Henry V
  • Great Speeches
  • Macbeth
  • Edward II 

2019–2020

    • Coriolanus

    • The Merry Wives of Windsor

    • As You Like It

    • Much Ado About Nothing

    • Measure for Measure

2018–2019

    • The Winter’s Tale

    • Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time (with Mystery group)

    • Julius Caesar

    • Antony and Cleopatra

    • Twelfth Night

    • Great Speeches

    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    • Coriolanus

2017–2018

    • Henry VI

    • Sharon Hamilton, Shakespeare’s Daughters

    • As You Like It

    • Richard III

    • The Winter’s Tale

    • ​Othello

    • The Merchant of Venice

    • Great Shakespeare Soliloquies

    • The Two Noble Kinsmen

2016–2017

    • All’s Well That Ends Well

    • Troilus and Cressida​

    • The Comedy of Errors

    • Hamlet

    • Romeo and Juliet

    • Selected Sonnets

    • Venus and Adonis

    • Lucrece

    • Love’s Labor’s Lost

    • The Tempest

    • Shakespeare and the Law

    • The Taming of the Shrew

2015–2016

    • Romeo and Juliet

    • Richard III

    • All’s Well that Ends Well

    • Venus and Adonis

    • Lucrece

    • Love’s Labor’s Lost

2014–2015

    • Henry IV

    • Henry V

    • King Lear

2013–2014

    • Cymbeline

    • Winter’s Tale

    • Measure for Measure

    • Merchant of Venice

    • Rape of Lucrece

    • Twelfth Night

    • Much Ado About Nothing

    • Richard II

    • Henry IV

2012–2013

    • Julius Caesar

    • Antony & Cleopatra

    • As You Like It

    • Two Gentlemen of Verona

    • Coriolanus

2011–2012

    • MacBeth

    • Henry V

    • Henry IV

    • Othello

    • Hamlet

    • Much Ado About Nothing

    • All’s Well That Ends Well

    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream