Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgements

Thematic Listing of Entries

List of Plays in Alphabetical Order

Note to the Reader

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Feature Entries:

All Is True (Henry VIII)

All’s Well That Ends Well

Antony and Cleopatra

The Comedy of Errors

Cymbeline, King of Britain

The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Henry IV Part 1

Henry IV Part 2

Henry VI Part 1

A Lover’s Complaint

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

The Rape of Lucrece

Richard Duke of York (3 Henry VI)

Romeo and Juliet

The Taming of the Shrew

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Troilus and Cressida

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Noble Kinsmen

Venus and Adonis

The Winter’s Tale

The British Isles and France in the English Histories and Macbeth

The Royal Family in Shakespeare’s English Histories

Shakespeare’s Life, Works, and Reception: A Partial Chronology, 1564–2015

Further Reading

Picture Acknowledgements