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2018 Breakdown of Shakespeare Outdoor Entertainment in California
381 days of Shakespeare in 45 cities | 7 Comedies | 6 Tragedies | 4 Histories
Midsummer Night's Dream 73 over 20%: 1595 Comedy "The course of
true love never did run smooth."
Tempest 31 days: 1611 Comedy "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and
our little life is rounded with a sleep."
Much Ado About Nothing 31 days: 1598 Comedy "Some Cupid kills with arrows,
some with traps"
The Winter's Tale 30 days: 1610 Comedy "You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely"
The Merry Wives of Windsor 26 days
Macbeth 23 days: 1605 Tragedy "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor
player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage"
Hamlet 22 days: 1600 Tragedy "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
Othello 21 days: 1604 Tragedy "I am one who loved not wisely but too well."
The War of the Roses (Henry VI parts 1-3 & Richard III
Tetralogy) 17 days: 1590 History
Titus Andronicus 16 days: 1593 Tragedy " These words are razors to my
wounded heart"
Pericles 16 days: 1608 History
Coriolanus 15 days: 1607 Tragedy "Nature teaches beasts to know their friends"
King Lear 10 days: 1605 Tragedy "Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest"
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) 10 days
Richard II 10 days: 1595 History
All's Well That Ends Well 10 days: 1602 Comedy "Moderate lamentation is the
right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living."
The Two Noble Kinsmen 9 days: 1634 TragiComedy
Henry V 6 days: 1589 History "Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as
self-neglecting."
Measure for Measure 5 days: 1604 Comedy "Some rise by sin, and some by
virtue fall."