In honor of William Shakespeare's birthday*, I give you:

Shakespeare's plays as John Mulaney quotes

*being really bored on a Thursday
Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 2
Julius Caesar
Much Ado About Nothing
King Lear
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Twelfth Night
(honestly choose whoever you like as the speaker for this one)
The Winter's Tale, Act 5
Henry V
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice

(Am I gonna do all 37 plays, you ask? Oh god I dunno maybe.)
Titus Andronicus
Midsummer Night's Dream
Love's Labour's Lost
Twitter asking me if I'm ever going to read All's Well That Ends Well, Pericles, Timon of Athens, or Cymbeline
Romeo and Juliet
Richard III
Othello: Is my wife loyal to me?
Iago:
Henry VI
Macbeth
Comedy of Errors, Act 3 Scene 2
Taming of the Shrew
Coriolanus
Richard II
King John
Troilus and Cressida
As You Like It
The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which all the wives chat about Falstaff
The Tempest
Henry IV, or at least the Henry IV/Prince Hal dynamic
Antony and Cleopatra
And, lastly*, Henry VIII

*if I missed a play don't you dare tell me
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