Guide to Shakespeare

How to use the Guide:
Start at 0 and follow the map by selecting which aspect of the story you liked, disliked, or missed the most and following the instructions alongside that aspect. If there is an instruction listed alongside the title, it is probable that, if you liked the story, you will like the one which is listed at the other end of that instruction. Now, enjoy and may your literary horizons be expanded!
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0. Do you want to start reading Shakespeare?
A. Yes										Go to 1
B. No										Alt+F4

1. Hamlet
A. Play-within-play! Speak the speech!						Go to 2
B. Dynasties in Strife!								Go to 3

2. Midsummer Night's Dream
A. The nature of art! Nothing's real! Illusory stuff!				Go to 4
B. Too happy an ending!								Go to 6

3. King Lear
A. Kings! Emperors! Romantic Intrigue!						Go to 5
B. I like the way it makes me feel quite uncomfortable.				Go to 6

4. The Tempest									Go to 21
A. I wish Prospero didn't go soft in the end!					Go to 6
B. Usurpation! Love at first sight! The "Our revels now are ended" speech!	Go to 8
C. Manipulation and misogyny!							Go to 10

5. Antony and Cleopatra								Go to 20
A. Wasn't Rome glorious?!							Go to 7
B. Cleopatra is such an interesting character!					Go to 9

6. Othello									Go to 19
A. The outsider in society!							Go to 12
B. Innocence! Jealousy!								Go to 14

7. Julius Caesar
A. I love this historical stuff!						Go to 11
B. I like it, but too mainstream!						Go to 13

8. As You Like It
A. Unrequited love!								Go to 12
B. It's so pastoral!								Go to 14

9. Macbeth

10. The Taming of the Shrew							Go to 17
B. Romance is great! But I want something simpler and with more death!		Go to 18

11. The Henriad: Richard II; Henry IV Parts 1&2; Henry VI			Go to 24

12. The Merchant of Venice							Go to 19

13. Coriolanus
A. I'm sick of Romans! LET'S KILL THEM ALL					Go to 15

14. Cymbeline
A. Mistaken identity!								Go to 22
B. Complex plots!								Go to 14

15. Titus Andronicus								Go to 23

16. The Winter's Tale
A. Romance is great! But I want something simpler, and with more death!		Go to 18

17. The Comedies: Much Ado About Nothing; Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors; Love's Labor’s Lost; The Two Gentlemen of Verona

18. Romeo and Juliet								Go to 20

19. The Jew of Malta

20. Dido, Queen of Carthage

21. Doctor Faustus

22. Twelfth Night
A. Shakespeare’s slapstick cracks me up!					Go to 25

22. Tamburlaine the Great Parts 1&2

23. Edward II

25. The Merry Wives of Windsor