{"id":1393969,"date":"2021-11-05T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1393969"},"modified":"2021-11-05T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T18:09:30","slug":"shakespeare-plays-ranked-in-order-of-how-easy-they-are-to-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/shakespeare-plays-ranked-in-order-of-how-easy-they-are-to-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Plays Ranked in Order of How Easy They Are to Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/jan18shakespearepickuplinesquizMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At best, Shakespeare&#8217;s plays are bit difficult. At worst, they are a baffling jumble of non-words and should be thrown into the fire immediately. I spend most of my time looking for Shakespeare lines <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/tag\/shakespeare-out-of-context\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that I can take out of context<\/a> to suit my own nefarious purposes, so I know this well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But some of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays are easier to make sense of than others. For your convenience, I&#8217;ve ranked them in order of how accessible they are to the modern, barely-interested reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disclaimer: I have not listed <em>all<\/em> of the bard&#8217;s plays, but I think we can all agree that I have at least listed some of them. I tried to include the ones you&#8217;ll most likely run into over the course of your studies. I did not&nbsp;include&nbsp;<em>Timon of Athens<\/em>, for example, because nobody on earth is reading that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At best, Shakespeare&#8217;s plays are bit difficult. At worst, they are a baffling jumble of non-words and should be thrown into the fire immediately. I spend most of my time looking for Shakespeare lines that   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[524,7915,25017,171,248,21791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393969"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445310,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393969\/revisions\/1445310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}