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This will be a very short post, because I don't actually know. I think it was almost certainly either Hamlet, or Macbeth, or Twelfth Night, or Romeo and Juliet, or A Midsummer Night's Dream, since those were the five plays in the "Stories from Shakespeare" book that my dad brought us as a gift when he went to England on a business trip, and it makes more sense that I would have decided to read a play that I was already familiar with, rather than dipping into the Complete Works at random. But I can't narrow it down any further than that.

Anyway, I know for sure that I had read MND by the end of the fifth grade, because my teacher absolutely refused to believe that I had read it, and started asking me a bunch of questions about the plot that were, I suppose, meant to trip me up. (She seemed to take it as a personal triumph that I mispronounced "Demetrius," although surely, not knowing how to pronounce all the names is the mark of a kid who actually HAS read the book, rather than seeing a film version or being told what the story is about. So I have no idea what that was supposed to prove.)