This is part of my year long project to read all the Shakespeare plays and some poetry in approximately chronological order.
So this early play was clearly at the start of Shakespeares career. To read, it was ok, not dreadful, but all in all it was rather farcical and a bit daft really. Bonkers story of two pairs of twins getting all mixed up. It did have a section that made me laugh. A kitchen maid with greasy dirty clothes and likened to a globe. All the countries are discussed but no one wants to go to the Netherlands. All very juvenile but very funny. It isn’t very PC but …

‘I warrant her rags and the tallow in them will burn a Poland winter. If she lives till doomsday, she’ll burn a week longer than the whole world’.


This year long challenge is with Ben McEvoy of the Hardcore Literature Bookclub on YouTube and Patreon