My project for 2015 is to read all 38 of Shakespeare’s canonical plays, which works out roughly as reading and posting about a play every 9 days. To make things interesting, I’m going to read each play in a different edition, ranging from Renaissance quartos (or, more likely, their facsimiles) to ornate private press editions to modern critical texts. If you’d like to recommend an edition for a particular play – or still more generously, to send me one – get in touch in the comments section below.
One goal is to be able to tick off the Complete Works of Shakespeare when it makes its inevitable appearance in the list of 100 books to read before you die, instead of mumbling caveats about how I only got halfway through Richard III, and never bothered with Timon of Athens. Another is to find some pleasure in writing about great literature in an easy and relaxed manner, while I’m labouring over the stiff and formal pages of my doctoral thesis. Another is to read some unique editions in a series of unique places, and get a few good stories of my own from it.
I’ve decided to make it easy on myself and proceed in the First Folio order, genre by genre, rather than getting bogged down in the vexed questions of chronology. This means I’ll be reading the plays in this order:
COMEDIES
The Taming of the Shrew
All’s Well that Ends Well
Twelfth Night
The Winter’s Tale
HISTORIES
The Life and Death of King John
The Life and Death of Richard the Second
The First part of King Henry the Fourth
The Second part of King Henry the Fourth
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
The First part of King Henry the Sixth
The Second part of King Henry the Sixth
The Third part of King Henry the Sixth
The Life and Death of Richard the Third
The Life of King Henry the Eighth
TRAGEDIES
Troilus and Cressida
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
The Life and Death of Julius Caesar
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Tragedy of Hamlet
King Lear
Othello, the Moor of Venice
Anthony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline King of Britain
QUARTO PLAYS NOT COLLECTED IN THE FIRST FOLIO
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Two Noble Kinsmen
A Fool Grows Wise 
I read all the plays for my 70 year in a single volume edition without footnotes. It was a fantastic experience. My marked up copy is one of my most precious possessions. The Bard was actually much better than I had expected from what I remember from my youthful encounters in school. Don Potter, Odessa, TX