William Shakespeare
There are obviously a lot of works by Shakespeare that could potentially show up on the GRE. My advice would be to read a few of the most famous plays if you haven’t already (Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliette) and review characters and synopses on the Spark Notes website. You should also be familiar with the most famous sonnets, and be able to recognize the form of the Shakespearean sonnet.
Audio Books
Here are sonnets 51-60. You don’t have to know them by heart, but you should have a good sense of Shakespeare’s style.
Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 51-60
Shakespeare Links
For more Shakespeare sonnets and audio books, check out the following sites.
Speak The Speech – a great site offering free audio books of Shakespeare plays performed by actors.
wired for books – William Shakespeare this site contains free and pretty decent audio recordings of Shakespeare’s major plays.
ShakespeareCast.com A William Shakespeare podcast.
