A Theatergoer's Guide to Shakespeare's Characters

by Fallon, Robert Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781566635707
• ISBN10: 1566635705
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Summary

Designed to enhance the playgoer's enjoyment of a performance, but it also makes for enlightening reading after the show. Intended for the general reader,it is written in plain but not inelegant English and aviods the specialized language of the theater and academy.

Author Biography

Robert Thomas Fallon is professor emeritus of English at La Salle University in Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Angelo	p. 3
Beatrice and Benedick	p. 6
Bottom	p. 12
Brutus	p. 17
Caesar	p. 23
Caliban	p. 27
Claudius	p. 33
Cleopatra	p. 38
Coriolanus	p. 47
Edmund	p. 55
Enobarbus	p. 60
Fairies and witches	p. 63
Oberon and Titania	p. 63
Puck	p. 65
Ariel	p. 66
Macbeth's witches	p. 68
Falstaff	p. 72
Faulconbridge	p. 80
Hamlet	p. 84
Helena and Bertram	p. 97
Henry IV	p. 100
Henry V	p. 106
Henry VI	p. 123
Henry VIII	p. 130
Hotspur	p. 135
Iago	p. 141
Jaques	p. 148
The jesters	p. 151
Lear's fool	p. 152
Feste	p. 154
Touchstone	p. 157
Joan Pucelle	p. 162
King Lear	p. 166
Lady Macbeth	p. 175
Macbeth	p. 182
Malvolio and Sir Toby Belch	p. 190
Margaret of Anjou	p. 195
Mark Antony	p. 201
Mothers	p. 206
Cymbeline's queen	p. 207
Volumnia	p. 208
Gertrude	p. 210
Othello	p. 214
Petruchio and Kate	p. 224
Portia	p. 233
Prospero	p. 237
Richard II	p. 243
Richard III	p. 250
Romeo and Juliet	p. 257
Rosalind	p. 264
Shylock	p. 271
Silvius	p. 278
Thersites	p. 282
Timon	p. 285
Titus Andronicus	p. 289
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