As someone new to Shakespeare, you should definitely start out by watching performances, rather than reading scripts.  Until you&#x27;ve absorbed the rhythm and the literary style, it can be very difficult to follow their plots just from a cold reading of the text;  particularly for the histories.  (And while King Lear is classed as a tragedy, I&#x27;ve personally always felt that it reads more like one of the histories)<p>If you do start reading the scripts for pleasure (which totally is not required!), then it&#x27;s probably a good idea to start with one which you&#x27;ve seen performed, just to let your brain adapt itself to seeing the words in written form, and to get used to looking back and forth between the text and the annotations, without needing to worry about losing the plot.