Exhibit 24.1

Reading List Review

Shakespeare's Histories and Comedies
The Tempest (Oxford)
Measure for Measure (Bedford)
Merchant of Venice (Cambridge's Shakespeare in Production)
The Taming of the Shrew (Norton)
Richard II (Cambridge)
1 Henry IV (Arden)

Nearly perfect though I could do without Shrew and maybe even Measure given the fact that we are only doing six plays. One more history wouldn't kill us though I guess my choice, Henry V, would make the entire thing a little too Bolingbroke heavy. In any case, I think it's a nice list given the course's emphasis on critical editions of the plays which, although it might sound shallow, has been great. The comedies especially take advantage of this as, with the possible exception of Shrew, they don't neatly fit with the conventions of the genre.

Overall verdict: excited.