Essential Reading for a Proper Education

Shakespeare:

MacBeth
Hamlet
King Lear
Julius Caesar
Romeo and Juliet
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Richard III
Merchant of Venice
The Tempest

Classics:

The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Homeric Hymns
Hesiod, Theogony
The Argonautica
The Golden Ass
Selected dialogues of Plato
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Heraclitus, fragments
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

Bible:

Genesis

Exodus

Isaiah

Psalms

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Romans

the rest in summary/outline, at least: stories of Daniel, Samson, Job, Jonah, David, Solomon