Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number...
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relative chronology of Shakespeare's oeuvre by various means, using external evidence (such as references to the plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries in both...
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Shakespeare's religious beliefs. Scholars find evidence both for and against Shakespeare's Catholicism, Protestantism, or lack of belief in his plays...
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in Oxford's Bible can be linked to Biblical allusions in Shakespeare's plays. That no plays survive under Oxford's name is also important to the Oxfordian...
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In Shakespeare studies, the problem plays are plays written by William Shakespeare which are characterized by their complex and ambiguous tone, which...
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Shakespearean history (redirect from Shakespeare's history plays)
John F., Shakespeare's Doctrine of Nature (London, 1949) Leggatt, Alexander, Shakespeare's Political Drama: The History Plays and the Roman Plays (London...
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exceptions, Shakespeare's sonnets observe the stylistic form of the English sonnet—the rhyme scheme, the 14 lines, and the metre. But, Shakespeare's sonnets...
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Shakespeare in the Park is a term for outdoor festivals featuring productions of William Shakespeare's plays. The term originated with the New York Shakespeare...
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of Shakespeare's genius that was characteristic of later nineteenth-century criticism. It was also the first book to cover all of Shakespeare's plays, intended...
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The Tempest (redirect from Alonso (Shakespeare))
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. After the first...
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First Folio (redirect from Shakespeare's First Folio)
Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as...
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"Shakespeare's Ovid in the Twentieth Century: a Critical Survey". In Taylor, Albert Booth (ed.). Shakespeare's Ovid: the Metamorphoses in the Plays and...
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lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language. As of November...
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Coriolanus (redirect from Coriolanus (Shakespeare))
original on 23 April 2021. Text of the play by Shakespeare: Coriolanus at Standard Ebooks Full text of Shakespeare's play Old Spelling Transcription – Transcription...
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Shakespeare in Love is a play by Lee Hall adapted from the 1998 film of the same title by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. The play premiered at the Noël...
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of Shakespeare. Johnson began reading Shakespeare's plays and poetry when he was a young boy. He would involve himself so closely with the plays that...
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Shakespearean tragedy (redirect from Shakespeare's tragedies)
Shakespeare's tragic figures.) Revenge tragedy was another increasingly popular genre in this age; Shakespeare's Hamlet is one example of this. Plays...
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Prices". Shakespeare's Globe. 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2009. "Globe director Michelle Terry on untapped potential in Shakespeare's great plays". Financial...
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and Adonis appeared in print before any of Shakespeare's plays were published, but not before some of his plays had been acted on stage. It has certain qualities...
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reasons, Shakespeare's grief over the loss of his only son may lie at the heart of the tragedy. Speculation over Hamnet's influence on Shakespeare's works...
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William Shakespeare are the subject of an ongoing scholarly debate dating back more than 150 years. The general assumption about William Shakespeare's religious...
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inherited and moved into New Place after Shakespeare's death. This would also explain other examples of Shakespeare's will being apparently ungenerous, as...
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figures cannot be known. See Shakespearean authorship, Shakespeare's collaborations and Shakespeare Apocrypha for further details. The identical dates may...
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Henriad (section Eight-play Henriad)
group of William Shakespeare's history plays depicting the rise of the English kings. It is sometimes used to refer to a group of four plays (a tetralogy)...
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they, like Shakespeare, worked for the King's Men, the London playing company that produced all of Shakespeare's plays. In addition to plays, poems were...
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Romeo and Juliet (redirect from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
editions corrected the text to conform more closely with Shakespeare's original. Shakespeare's use of poetic dramatic structure (including effects such...
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romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of William Shakespeare's last plays, comprising Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale;...
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Hamlet (redirect from William Shakespeare's Hamlet)
tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and...
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quarto (or Q) editions of Shakespeare's plays and five editions of poetry were published before the First Folio. On 20 of the plays, the author is not credited...
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of William Shakespeare's plays have been staged since the end of the 16th century. While Shakespeare was alive, many of his greatest plays were performed...
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