Beginners Guide-Shakespeare

by Jay, Roni

• ISBN13: 9780340780107
• ISBN10: 034078010X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Table of Contents

Who was Shakespeare?	1	(8)
From Stratford to London	1	(1)
Shotgun wedding	2	(1)
A career in the theatre	2	(1)
Shakespeare's home life	3	(1)
The Shakespeare authorship debate	4	(4)
Summary	8	(1)
The Time of Shakespeare	9	(7)
The political scene	9	(2)
Religious changes	11	(1)
Cultural rebirth	12	(2)
Social life	14	(1)
Summary	15	(1)
Shakespeare's Theatre	16	(6)
The theatre buildings	16	(3)
The status of the theatre	19	(1)
The theatrical life	19	(2)
Summary	21	(1)
Shakespeare's Language	22	(8)
Vocabulary and grammar	22	(1)
Verse and prose	23	(3)
Punctuation and spelling	26	(1)
Imagery	26	(1)
The Development of Shakespeare's style	27	(2)
Summary	29	(1)
An Introduction to the Plays	30	(7)
The main sources	30	(3)
The chronology of the plays	33	(2)
Quartos and folios	35	(1)
A play in five acts	36	(1)
Summary	37	(1)
The Comedies	37	(13)
A Midsummer Night's Dream	37	(1)
As You Like It	38	(2)
Love's Labour's lost	40	(1)
Much Ado About Nothing	40	(1)
The Comedy of Errors	41	(2)
The Merchant of Venice	43	(1)
The Merry Wives of Windsor	44	(1)
The Taming of the Shrew	44	(2)
The Tempest	46	(1)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	47	(1)
Twelfth Night	48	(2)
The Tragedies and Black Comedies	50	(15)
All's Well That Ends Well	50	(1)
Cymbeline	51	(1)
Hamlet	51	(3)
King Lear	54	(1)
Macbeth	55	(2)
Measure for Measure	57	(1)
Othello	58	(3)
Romeo and Juliet	61	(2)
The Two Noble Kinsmen	63	(1)
The Winter's Tale	63	(2)
The Histories	65	(12)
King John	65	(1)
Richard II	65	(2)
Henry IV Part I	67	(2)
Henry IV Part II	69	(1)
Henry V	70	(1)
Henry VI Part I	71	(1)
Henry VI Part II	72	(1)
Henry VI Part III	73	(1)
Richard III	74	(2)
Henry VIII	76	(1)
The Classical Plays	77	(8)
Anthony and Cleopatra	77	(1)
Coriolanus	78	(2)
Julius Caesar	80	(2)
Pericles	82	(1)
Timon of Athens	82	(1)
Titus Andronicus	83	(1)
Troilus and Cressida	83	(2)
The Poems and Sonnets	85	(5)
The sonnets	85	(3)
Venus and Adonis	88	(1)
The Rape of Lucrece	89	(1)
A Lover's Complaint	89	(1)
The Phoenix and the Turle	89	(1)
The Passionate Pilgrim	90