ThatShakespeareLife · Sep 18, 2026 · 6:55 PM UTC

ThatShakespeareLife

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@ThatShakespeareSep 18

OH, my soapbox. Ok, first--YES, read the classics, and I love love so many of this list (My own HS student will be reading several of these) but for the love of Hamlet's Ghost, Lady Macbeth, and by the power of Malvolio's tights, PLEASE do NOT read Shakespeare. GO TO THE THEATER. Shakespeare's plays are not literature. I will die on this hill. If you need help finding theater productions of any of Shakespeare's works because you cry out at me saying, "OH, Cassidy, we don't have these being staged near me!" FEAR NOT, I've found all of them on YouTube (from the RSC to local high school productions, we run the gambit) but you CAN Watch all of them. For Free! You have no excuse. Get my list here cassidycash.com/where-to-wat… And seriously, if you want to do something remarkable for a hs student, take them to the Blackfriars Playhouse @shakespearectr It will change your life, and your view of Shakespeare, forever (and for the better.) Get Thee To a Play! P.s. get the tickets that let you sit on the stage! Worth it. Promise.

Where to Watch Every Shakespeare Play Online For Free - Cassidy Cash

Links to watch public performances available for free on the internet for all 37 of Shakespeare's plays.

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Cultivated Soul

@CultivatedBooksSep 18

A realistic list of 43 classics every high schooler should read before graduation: 1. Genesis, The Bible 2. The Odyssey, Homer 3. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles 4. Antigone, Sophocles 5. Beowulf, Anonymous 6. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer 7. The Gospel According to Matthew, The Bible 8. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare 9. Macbeth, William Shakespeare 10. Hamlet, William Shakespeare 11. Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare 12. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 13. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 14. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 15. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 16. Silas Marner, George Eliot 17. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne 18. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass 19. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain 20. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 21. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 22. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair 23. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 24. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner 25. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 26. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck 27. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway 28. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 29. Lord of the Flies, William Golding 30. Animal Farm, George Orwell 31. 1984, George Orwell 32. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 33. Night, Elie Wiesel 34. The Crucible, Arthur Miller 35. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe 36. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 37. Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin 38. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift 39. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe 40. The Trial, Franz Kafka 41. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie 42. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 43. Our Town, Thorton Wilder tolle lege