{"id":691,"date":"2026-04-22T05:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/to-see-or-not-to-see-every-single-shakespeare-play-ranked-theatre-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:29:43","slug":"to-see-or-not-to-see-every-single-shakespeare-play-ranked-theatre-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/to-see-or-not-to-see-every-single-shakespeare-play-ranked-theatre-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play \u2013 ranked! | Theatre | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare\u2019s birthday, the Guardian\u2019s former theatre critic ranks all the plays<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/ng-interactive\/2026\/apr\/22\/every-shakespeare-play-ranked-lear-antony-cleopatra-hamlet\">www.theguardian.com\/stage\/ng-interactive\/2026\/apr\/22\/every-shakespeare-play-ranked-lear-antony-cleopatra-hamlet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare\u2019s birthday, the Guardian\u2019s former theatre critic ranks all the plays \u2014 Read on www.theguardian.com\/stage\/ng-interactive\/2026\/apr\/22\/every-shakespeare-play-ranked-lear-antony-cleopatra-hamlet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,113],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-literature","tag-shakespeare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}