Thematic Listing of Entries

Longer, more discursive entries are listed first within each sub-heading.

Contents

Biography
The Shakespeare legend
Shakespeare’s works
Literary features and terms
Elizabethan and Jacobean literary context
Theatrical context to 1660
Historical, social, and cultural context
Elizabethan and Jacobean printing, publishing, and manuscripts
The editing of Shakespeare since 1700
Editions and editors in English
Theatrical history of the plays
Critical history of the works
Periodicals
Societies and clubs
Shakespeare’s literary influence
Shakespeare around the globe

Biography

biographies of Shakespeare

Shakespeare and his family

Shakespeare, William
Stratford-upon-Avon education
Arden, Mary
arms, Shakespeare’s coat of
Bagley, Edward
Belott-Mountjoy suit
Bernard, Sir John
crabtree, Shakespeare’s
epitaph, Shakespeare’s
grave, Shakespeares
Hall, Elizabeth
Hall, John
Hart, William
highways subscription
Impresa
‘lost years’
Quiney, Thomas
Shakeshaft, William
Shakespeare, Agnes/Anne
Shakespeare, Anne
Shakespeare as a surname
Shakespeare, Edmund
Shakespeare, Gilbert
Shakespeare, Hamnet
Shakespeare, Henry
Shakespeare, Joan (i and ii)
Shakespeare, John
Shakespeare, Judith
Shakespeare, Margaret
Shakespeare, Richard
Shakespeare, Susanna signatures
Welcombe enclosure will, Shakespeare’s Willobie his Avisa

Stratford acquaintances and contemporaries

Addenbrooke, John
Aspinall, Alexander
Bretchgirdle, John
Clopton family
Collins, Francis
Combe family
Cottom, John
Greene, John and Thomas
Hamlett, Katherine
Harvard, John
Hathaway, Anne
Hunt, Simon
Jenkins, Thomas
Johnson, Robert
Lambert, Edmund
Lane, John
Lucy, Sir Thomas
Nash, Anthony and John
Nash, Thomas
Quiney, Richard
Reynolds, William
Roche, Walter
Rogers, Philip
Russell, Thomas
Sadler, Hamnet and Judith
Shaw, July
Sturley (Strelly), Abraham
Tyler, Richard
Underhill, William
Walker, William
Whately, Anne
Whittington, Thomas

Stratford places, buildings, and residences

Stratford-upon-Avon
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
Arden
Asbies
Aston Cantlow
Barton-on-the-Heath
Bidford
Birthplace
Budbrooke
Chapel Lane Cottage
Charlecote
Clifford Chambers
Clopton
Davenport, James
Dowdall, John
Dursley
fires in Stratford-upon-Avon
Fulbrook
grammar school
Greene, Joseph
Guild Chapel
Hall’s Croft
Hampton Lucy
Henley Street
Holy Trinity Church
Ingon
Jordan, John
Kenilworth
Luddington
Lyance
Maidenhead Inn (Woolshop)
Mary Arden’s House
New Place
Old Stratford
Payton, Mr
Rowington
Shakespeare’s grave
Snitterfield
Stratford-upon-Avon, Elizabethan, and the theatre
Temple Grafton
Ward, John
Warwick
Welcombe
Wilmcote
Wincot
Wroxall

London acquaintances and contemporaries, excluding literary and theatrical

Andrewes, Robert
Atkinson, William
Belott-Mountjoy suit
Clayton, John
‘Dark Lady’
Dethick, Sir William
‘Fair Youth’
Gardiner, William
‘Hughes, William’
Jackson, John
Mr W.H.
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of
Pembroke, Mary Herbert, Countess of
Pembroke, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of
Pembroke, William Herbert, 3rd Earl of
‘Rival Poet’
Savage, Thomas
School of Night
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of
Walker, Henry
Witter, John

London residences and haunts, excluding theatres

Belott-Mountjoy suit
Blackfriars Gatehouse
Mermaid Tavern

Portraits and sculptures, including spurious, before 1700

portraits
Ashbourne (Kingston) Portrait
Burdett-Coutts Portrait
Chandos Portrait
Cobbe Portrait of
death mask
Droeshout engraving
Ely Palace Portrait
Faithorne, William, engraving
Felton portrait
Flower portrait
Hilliard miniature Janssen bust
Kneller, Sir Godfrey
Soest portrait
Zuccaro, Federico

The Shakespeare legend

Authorship controversy, hoaxes, and aspects of bardolatry

authorship controversy
advertising
Bacon, Delia
Baconian theory
Bard
bardolatry
birthday celebrations
Chalmers, George
Chetwood, William Rufus
Defoe theory
Derby theory
Elizabeth theory
Fenton, Richard
forgery
Gastrell, Francis
James I theory
Jubilee
King James’ Bible
Lefranc, Abel
Marlovian theory
monuments
mulberry tree
Oxford theory
poems on Shakespeare
popular culture
portraits
Rutland theory
Salom, Jaime
schools, Shakespeare in (British)
Shakespeare, William, as a literary character
Shakespeare Tercentenary Festival
Shakespeariana
statuary

Shakespeare’s works

Comedies

All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline
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
Pericles
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter’s Tale

Histories

All Is True (Henry VIII)
The First Part of the Contention (2 Henry VI)
1 Henry IV
2 Henry IV
Henry V
1 Henry VI
King John
Richard Duke of York (3 Henry VI)
Richard II
Richard III

Tragedies

Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida

Lost plays

Cardenio
Love’s Labour’s Won

Collaborative works and their co-authors

All Is True (Henry VIII)
Cardenio
Chettle, Henry
Dekker, Thomas
Fletcher, John
1 Henry VI
Heywood, Thomas
Macbeth
Middleton, Thomas
Munday, Anthony
Nashe, Thomas
Pericles
Sir Thomas More
Timon of Athens
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Wilkins, George

Apocryphal plays

apocrypha
Arden of Feversham
The Birth of Merlin
Duke Humfey
Edmund Ironside
Edward III
Edward IV
Fair Em
Hoffman
Locrine
The London Prodigal
The Merry Devil of Edmonton
Moseley, Humphrey
Mucedorus
The Puritan
The Second Maiden’s Tragedy
Sir John Oldcastle (Part One)
The Taming of a Shrew
Thomas, Lord Cromwell
The Troublesome Reign of King John
The Yorkshire Tragedy

Principal characters in the plays

(Information on characters who have their names in the titles can be found in entries on individual plays. Modern equivalents of foreign names have been used, as in the Oxford Complete Works modern spelling edition.)

All Is True (Henry VIII)

Abergavenny, Lord
Boleyn, Anne
Brandon
Buckingham, Duke of
Butts, Doctor
Caputius, Lord
Campeius, Cardinal
Cromwell, Thomas
Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
Denny, Sir Anthony
Ely, Bishop of
Gardiner
Griffith
Guildford, Sir Henry
Henry VIII
Katherine, Queen
Lincoln, Bishop of
London, Lord Mayor of
Lord Chamberlain
Lord Chancellor
Lovell, Sir Thomas
Norfolk, Duke of
Old Lady, an
Page, Gardiner’s
Patience
Porter, a
Sands, Lord
Suffolk, Duke of
Surrey, Earl of
Surveyor, Buckingham’s
Vaux, Sir Nicholas
Wolsey, Cardinal

All’s Well That Ends Well

Austringer, an
Bertram
Diana
Florence, Duke of
France, King of
Helen
Lafeu
Lavatch
Lord Dumain, First and Second
Mariana
Paroles
Reynaldo
Roussillon, Dowager Countess of
Widow Capilet

Antony and Cleopatra

Agrippa
Alexas
Ambassador, an
Antony, Mark
Caesar, Octavius
Camidius
Charmian
Cleopatra
Clown, a
Decretas
Demetrius
Diomed
Dolabella
Enobarbus
Eros
Gallus
Iras
Maecenas
Mardian
Menas
Menecrates
Octavia
Philo
Pompey, Sextus
Proculeius
Scarus
Seleucus
Silius
Soothsayer, a
Taurus
Thidias
Varrus
Ventidius

As You Like It

Adam
Amiens
Audrey
Celia
Charles
Corin
Denis
Frederick, Duke
Hymen
Jaques
Jaques (de Bois)
Le Beau
Martext, Sir Oliver
Oliver
Orlando
Pages, Two
Phoebe
Rosalind
Senior, Duke
Silvius
Touchstone
William

The Comedy of Errors

Adriana
Angelo
Antipholus of Ephesus
Antipholus of Syracuse
Balthasar
Dromio of Ephesus
Dromio of Syracuse
Egeon
Emilia
Jailer, a
Luciana
Nell
Pinch, Doctor
Solinus, Duke of Ephesus

Coriolanus

Adrian
Aediles
Aufidius, Tullus
Brutus, Junius
Cominius Conspirators
Herald, a
Lartius, Titus
Martius, Caius (afterwards Coriolanus)
Martius, Young
Menenius Agrippa
Nicanor
Valeria
Virgilia
Volumnia

Cymbeline

Arviragus
Belarius
Captain, a Roman
Captains, two British
Cloten
Cornelius
Cymbeline, King
Filario
Ghosts of Posthumus’s brothers
Ghost of Posthumus’s mother
Ghost of Sicilius Leonatus
Giacomo
Guiderius
Helen
Innogen
Jailers, two
Jupiter
Lord, a Briton
Lords, two
Lucius, Caius
Pisanio
Posthumus Leonatus
Queen
Senators, two Roman
Soothsayer, a
Tribunes, Roman

The First Part of the Contention (2 Henry VI)

Asnath
Beadle
Beaufort, Cardinal
Bolingbroke, Roger
Buckingham, Duke of
Butcher, Dick the
Cade, Jack
Captain of a ship
Clerk of Chatham, the
Clifford, Old Lord
Clifford, Young
Edward, Earl of March
Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of
Gloucester, Duchess of
Gough, Matthew
Henry VI, King
Herald, a
Horner, Thomas
Hume, Sir John
Iden, Alexander
Jordan, Margery
Margaret, Queen
Master of a ship
Master’s mate Mayor of Saint Albans
Murderers, two
Richard, Crookback
Salisbury, Earl of
Saye, Lord
Scales, Lord
Simpcox, Simon
Simpcox’s wife
Somerset, Duke of
Southwell, John
Stafford, Sir Humphrey
Stafford’s brother
Stanley, Sir John
Suffolk, Marquis, later Duke of
Thump, Peter
Vaux
Warwick, Earl of
Weaver, Smith the
Whitmore, Walter
York, Duke of

Hamlet

Ambassadors from England
Barnardo
Captain, a
Claudius, King
Clowns, two
Cornelius
Fortinbras
Francisco
Gertrude, Queen
Ghost of Hamlet (late king)
Guildenstern
Hamlet
Horatio
Laertes
Marcellus
Ophelia
Osric
Players
Polonius
Priest, a
Reynaldo
Rosencrantz
Valtemand

1 Henry IV

Blunt, Sir Walter
Carriers, two
Chamberlain
Douglas, Earl of
Francis
Gadshill
Glyndwr, Owain
Harry, Prince
Harvey
Henry IV, King
Hotspur
John of Lancaster, Prince
Michael, Sir
Mortimer, Lord Edmund
Mortimer, Lady
Northumberland, Earl of
Oldcastle, Sir John
Percy, Lady
Poins
Quickly, Mistress
Russell
Travellers
Vernon, Sir Richard
Westmorland, Earl of
Worcester, Earl of
York, Archbishop (Scrope) of

2 Henry IV

Bardolph
Bardolph, Lord
Blunt, Sir John
Bullcalf
Clarence, Thomas, Duke of
Coleville, Sir John
Davy
Epilogue
Falstaff, Sir John
Fang
Feeble
Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of
Gower
Harcourt
Harry, Prince
Hastings, Lord
Henry IV, King
John of Lancaster, Prince
Lord Chief Justice
Mouldy
Mowbray, Lord Thomas
Northumberland, Lady
Northumberland, Lord
Page, Falstaff’s
Peto
Pistol
Poins
Porter, a
Quickly, Mistress
Rumour
Shadow, Simon
Shallow, Robert
Silence
Snare
Surrey, Earl of
Tearsheet, Doll
Travers
Wart, Thomas
Warwick, Earl of
Westmorland, Earl of
York, Archbishop (Scrope) of

Henry V

Alice
Ambassadors, French
Bardolph
Bates, John
Berri, Duke of
Bourbon, Duke of
Boy, a
Burgundy, Duke of
Cambridge, Earl of
Canterbury, Archbishop of
Catherine
Charles VI of France, King
Clarence, Duke of
Constable of France
Court, Alexander
Dauphin, the
Ely, Bishop of
Erpingham, Sir Thomas
Exeter, Duke of
Fluellen, Captain
Gloucester, Duke of
Governor of Harfleur
Gower, Captain
Grandpre, Lord
Grey, Sir Thomas
Harry, King (Henry V)
Herald, a
Hostess (formerly Mistress Quickly) Isabel, Queen
Jamy, Captain
Macmorris, Captain
Montjoy
Nim
Orleans, Duke of
Pistol
Rambures, Lord
Salisbury, Earl of
Scrope, Lord Henry
Warwick, Earl of
Westmorland, Earl of
Williams, Michael
York, Duke of

1 Henry VI

Alençon, Duke of
Auvergne, Countess of
Basset
Bastard of Orléans
Bedford, Duke of
Burgundy, Duke of
Charles, Dauphin of France
Exeter, Duke of
Fastolf, Sir John
Gargrave, Sir Thomas
Glasdale, Sir William
Gloucester, Duke of
Henry VI, King
Joan la Pucelle
Lucy, Sir William
Margaret of Anjou
Master Gunner of Orléans/his son
Mayor of London
Mortimer, Edmund
Plantagenet, Richard (later Duke of York)
René, Duke of Anjou, King of Naples
Salisbury, Earl of
Shepherd, a
Somerset, Duke of
Suffolk, Earl of
Talbot, Lord
Vernon
Warwick, Earl of
Winchester, Bishop of (later Cardinal)
Woodville

Julius Caesar

Antony
Artemidorus
Brutus
Caesar, Julius
Calpurnia
Casca
Cassius
Cato, young
Cicero
Cinna the conspirator
Cinna the poet
Claudio
Clitus
Dardanius
Decius
Flavius
Ghost of Caesar
Lepidus
Ligarius Lucillius
Lucius
Messala
Metellus
Murellus
Octavius
Pindarus
Poet, a
Popilius
Portia
Publius
Soothsayer, a
Strato
Titinius
Trebonius
Varrus
Volumnius

King John

Arthur
Austria, Duke of
Bastard, Phillip the
Bigot, Lord
Blanche, Lady
Châtillon
Citizen of Angers
Constance, Lady
Eleanor, Queen
Essex, Earl of
Falconbridge, Lady
Falconbridge, Robert
Gurney, James
Henry, Prince
Hubert
John, King
Louis the Dauphin
Melun, Count
Pandolf, Cardinal
Pembroke, Earl of
Peter of Pomfret
Phillip, King of France
Salisbury, Earl of

King Lear

Albany, Duke of
Burgundy, Duke of
Cordelia
Cornwall, Duke of
Curan
Edgar
Edmond
Fool, Lear’s
France, King of
Gloucester, Earl of
Goneril
Herald, a
Kent, Earl of
Lear, King
Oswald
Regan
Servant, Cornwall’s

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Armado, Don Adriano de
Biron
Boyet
Catherine
Costard
Dull, Anthony
Dumaine
France, Princess of
Holofernes
Jaquenetta
Longueville
Lords, two
Maria
Mercadé
Mote
Nathaniel, Sir
Navarre, King of, Ferdinand
Rosaline

Macbeth

Angus
Apparitions, three
Banquo
Caithness
Doctor of Physic, a
Doctor, an English
Donalbain
Duncan, King of Scotland
Fleance
Hecate
Lennox
Macbeth
Macbeth, Lady
Macduff
Macduff, Lady
Malcolm
Menteith
Murderers, three
Porter, a
Ross
Seyton
Siward
Siward, Young
Witches, three

Measure for Measure

Abhorson
Angelo
Barnardine
Claudio
Elbow
Escalus
Francesca
Friar Peter
Froth
Isabella
Juliet
Lucio
Mariana
Overdone, Mistress
Pompey
Provost, a
Varrius
Vincentio, Duke of Vienna

The Merchant of Venice

Antonio
Aragon, Prince of
Balthasar
Bassanio
Gobbo
Graziano
Jessica
Lancelot
Leonardo
Lorenzo
Morocco, Prince of
Nerissa
Portia
Salerio
Shylock
Solanio
Stefano
Tubal
Venice, Duke of

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Bardolph
Caius, Doctor
Evans, Sir Hugh
Falstaff, Sir John
Fenton, Master
Ford, Master Frank
Ford, Mistress Alice
Host of the Garter Inn
John
Nim
Page, Anne
Page, Master George
Page, Mistress Margaret
Page, William
Pistol
Quickly, Mistress
Robert
Robin
Rugby, John
Shallow, Robert
Simple, Peter
Slender, Master Abraham

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Bottom, Nick
Cobweb
Demetrius
Egeus
Fairy
Flute, Francis
Goodfellow, Robin
Helena
Hermia
Hippolyta
Lysander
Mote
Mustardseed
Oberon
Peaseblossom
Philostrate
Quince, Peter
Snout, Tom
Snug
Starveling, Robin
Theseus
Titania

Much Ado About Nothing

Antonio
Balthasar
Beatrice
Benedick
Borachio
Boy, a
Claudio
Conrad
Dogberry
Friar Francis
Hero
John, Don
Leonato
Margaret Pedro, Don
Sexton, a
Ursula
Verges

Othello

Bianca
Brabanzio
Cassio
Clown, a
Desdemona
Emilia
Graziano
Herald, a
Iago
Lodovico
Montano
Othello
Roderigo
Senators
Venice, Duke of

Pericles

Aeschines
Antiochus
Antiochus’s daughter
Bawd, a
Boult
Cerimon
Cleon
Diana
Dioniza
Fishermen, three
Gower, John
Helicanus
Knights, five
Leonine
Lychorida
Lysimachus
Marina
Marshal, a
Pander, a
Pericles
Philemon
Simonides, King
Thaisa
Thaliart

Richard Duke of York (3 Henry VI)

Bona, Lady
Bourbon, Lord
Clarence, George, Duke of
Clifford, Lord
Edward, Earl of March (later Edward IV)
Edward, Prince
Exeter, Duke of
Gloucester, Richard, Duke of
Gray, Lady
Hastings, Lord
Henry VI, King
Huntsman, a
Lieutenant of the Tower
Louis, King
Margaret, Queen
Mayor of Coventry
Mayor of York
Montague, Marquis of
Montgomery, Sir John
Mortimer, Sir John and Sir Hugh
Norfolk, Duke of
Nothumberland, Earl of
Oxford, Earl of
Pembroke, Earl of
Rivers, Earl
Rutland, Earl of
Soldier who has killed his father, a
Soldier who has killed his son, a
Somerset, Duke of
Somerville
Stafford, Lord
Stanley, Sir William
Tutor, Rutland’s
Warwick, Earl of
York, Duke of (Richard Plantagenet)

Richard II

Aumerle, Duke of
Bagot
Berkeley, Lord
Bolingbroke, Harry
Bushy
Captain of the Welsh army
Carlisle, Bishop of
Exton, Sir Piers
Fitzwalter, Lord
Gaunt, John of
Gloucester, Duchess of
Green
Lord Marshal
Mowbray, Thomas
Northumberland, Earl of
Percy, Harry
Queen
Richard II, King
Ross, Lord
Salisbury, Earl of
Scrope, Sir Stephen
Surrey, Duke of
Westminster, Abbot of
Willoughby, Lord
York, Duchess of
York, Duke of

Richard III

Anne, Lady
Blunt, Sir James
Brackenbury, Sir Robert
Buckingham, Duke of
Cardinal
Catesby, Sir William
Christopher, Sir
Clarence, George, Duke of
Clarence’s daughter
Clarence’s son
Dorset, Marquis of
Edward IV, King
Edward, Prince
Elizabeth, Queen
Ely, Bishop of
Gray, Lord
Hastings, Lord
Herbert, Sir Walter
Margaret, Queen
Mayor of London, Lord
Murderers
Norfolk, Duke of
Oxford, Earl of
Page, a
Priest, a
Ratcliffe, Sir Richard
Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III)
Richmond, Earl of (later Henry VII)
Rivers, Earl
Stanley, Lord
Tyrrel, Sir James
Vaughan, Sir Thomas
York, Duchess of
York, Richard, Duke of

Romeo and Juliet

Abraham
Apothecary, an
Balthasar
Benvolio
Capulet
Capulet’s cousin
Capulet’s wife
Chorus
Escalus, Prince of Verona
Friar John
Friar Laurence
Gregory
Juliet
Mercutio
Montague
Montague’s wife
Nurse, Juliet’s
Page, Mercutio’s
Page, Paris’s
Paris, County
Peter
Petruccio
Romeo
Samson
Tybalt

The Taming of the Shrew

Baptista Minola
Bartholomew
Bianca
Biondello
Curtis
Gremio
Grumio
Haberdasher, a
Hortensio
Hostess, a
Huntsmen, two
Joseph
Katherine
Lord, a
Lucentio
Nathaniel
Pedant, a
Peter
Petruccio
Philip
Players
Sly, Christopher
Tailor, a
Tranio
Vincentio
Widow, a

The Tempest

Adrian
Alonso
Antonio
Ariel
Boatswain
Caliban
Ceres
Ferdinand
Francisco
Gonzalo
Iris
Juno
Master of a ship
Miranda
Prospero
Sebastian
Stefano
Trinculo

Timon of Athens

Alcibiades
Apemantus
Caphis
Flaminius
Flavius
Fool, a
Hortensius’ servant
Isidore’s servant
Lucilius
Lucius
Lucius’ servant
Lucullus
Lucullus’ servant
Page, a
Painter, a
Philotus’s servant
Phrynia
Poet, a
Sempronius
Servilius
Timandra
Timon
Titus’ servant
Varro’s servants
Ventidius

Titus Andronicus

Aaron
Aemilius
Alarbus
Bassianus
Caius
Captain, a
Chiron
Clown, a
Demetrius
Lavinia
Lucius
Lucius, Young
Marcus Andronicus
Martius
Mutius
Nurse, a
Publius
Quintus
Saturnius
Sempronius
Tamora
Titus Andronicus
Valentine

Troilus and Cressida

Achilles
Aeneas
Agamemnon
Ajax
Alexander
Andromache
Antenor
Calchas
Cassandra
Cressida
Deiphobus
Diomedes
Hector
Helen
Helenus
Margareton
Menelaus
Nestor
Pandarus
Paris
Patroclus
Priam
Thersites
Troilus
Ulysses

Twelfth Night

Aguecheek, Sir Andrew
Antonio
Belch, Sir Toby
Captain, a
Curio
Fabian
Feste
Malvolio
Maria
Olivia
Orsino
Priest, a
Sebastian
Valentine
Viola

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Antonio
Eglamour, Sir
Host, a
Julia
Lance
Lucetta
Milan, Duke of
Panthino
Proteus
Silvia
Speed
Thurio
Valentine

The Two Noble Kinsmen

Arcite
Artesius
Emilia
Gerald
Hippolyta
Hymen
Jailer, a
Jailer’s daughter
Palamon
Pirithous
Theseus
Valerius

The Winter’s Tale

Antigonus
Archidamus
Autolycus
Camillo
Cleomenes
Clown, a
Dion
Dorcas
Emilia
Florizel
Hermione
Jailer, a
Leontes
Mamillius
Mariner, a
Mopsa
Paulina
Perdita
Polixenes
Shepherd, Old

Songs and song-fragments in the plays, and composers of early settings

songs in the plays
ballad
broadside ballad
Johnson, Robert
Morley, Thomas
music
Wilson, John

All Is True (Henry VIII)

‘Orpheus with his lute’

Antony and Cleopatra

‘Come, thou monarch of the vine’

As You Like It

‘Blow, blow, thou winter wind’
‘It was a lover and his lass’
‘Under the greenwood tree’
‘Wedding is great Juno’s crown’
‘What shall he have that killed the deer?’

Cymbeline

‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun’
‘Hark, hark, the lark’

Hamlet

‘And will a not come again’
‘For Bonny and sweet Robin is all my joy’
‘How should I your true love know’
‘In youth when I did love’
‘They bore him barefaced on the bier’
‘Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s day’

2 Henry IV

‘A cup of wine that’s brisk and fine’
‘And Robin Hood, Scarlet and John’
‘Be merry, be merry, my wife has all’
‘Carman’s Whistle’
‘Do me right, and dub me knight’
‘Do nothing but eat and make good cheer’
Fill the cup and let it come’
‘When Arthur first in court’

Henry V

‘And sword and shield | In bloody field’
‘Calin o custure me’
‘If wishes would prevail with me’

King Lear

‘Child Rowland to the dark tower came’
‘Come o’er the bourn, Bessy, to me’
‘He that has and a little tiny wit’
‘Then they for sudden joy did weep’

Love’s Labour’s Lost

‘King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid’
‘When daisies pied’
‘When icicles hang by the wall’

Measure for Measure

‘Take, O take those lips away’

The Merchant of Venice

‘Tell me, where is Fancy bred?’

The Merry Wives of Windsor

‘To shallow rivers, to whose falls’
Fie on sinful fantasy’
‘Fortune my foe’
‘Greensleeves’

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

‘The ousel cock so black of hue’
‘You spotted snakes’

Much Ado About Nothing

‘Pardon, goddess of the night’
‘Sigh no more, ladies’
‘The god of love that sits above’

Othello

‘And let me the cannikin clink’
‘King Stephen was and a worthy peer’
Willow song (‘The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree’)

Romeo and Juliet

‘An old hare hoar’
‘Heart’s Ease’
‘Hunt’s up, the’
‘My heart is full of woe’
‘When griping grief the heart doth wound’

The Taming of the Shrew

‘It was the Friar of orders grey’
‘Where is the life that late I led?’

The Tempest

‘Come unto these yellow sands’
Flout ‘em and cout ‘em’
‘Full fathom five’
‘Honour, riches, marriage, blessing’
‘I shall no more to sea’
‘No more dams I’ll make for fish’
‘The master, the swabber, the bosun and I’
‘Where the bee sucks’
‘While you here do snoring lie’

Troilus and Cressida

‘Love, love, nothing but love’

Twelfth Night

‘Come away, come away, death’
‘Farewell, dear heart, for I must needs be gone’
‘Hey Robin, jolly Robin, tell me how thy Lady does’
‘Hold thy peace’
‘O mistress mine’
‘O’ the twelfth day of December’
‘Peg a Ramsay’
‘There dwelt a man in Babylon’
‘Three merry men be we’
‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

‘Light o’ love’
‘Who is Silvia?’

The Two Noble Kinsmen

‘Roses, their sharp spines being gone’
‘Urns and odours, bring away’

The Winter’s Tale

‘But shall I go mourn for that’
‘Get you hence, for I must go’
‘Jog on, jog on’
‘Lawn as white as driven snow’
‘When daffodils begin to peer’
‘Whoop, do me no harm, good man’
‘Will you buy any tape’

Locations in the plays

Ardenne
Athens
Berkeley Castle
Bosworth Field
Dover
Dunsinane
Elsinore
Florence
Gloucestershire
Illyria
Kent
Leicester Abbey
Mantua
Milan
Milford Haven
Muscovy
Naples
Normandy
Padua
Rome
Shrewsbury
Sicilia
Sutton Cop Hill
Venice
Verona
Vienna
Windsor

Poems

lyric poetry, Shakespeare’s
Epitaph on Elias James
Epitaphs on John Combe
A Lover’s Complaint
‘On Ben Jonson’
xThe Phoenix and Turtle’
The Rape of Lucrece
Sonnets
Venus and Adonis

Attributed poems

Belvedere, or The Garden of the Muses
‘Crabbed age and youth’
England’s Helicon
England’s Parnassus
‘A Funeral Elegy’
The Passionate Pilgrim
‘Shall I die’
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
‘Upon the King’

Literary features and terms

Genres, forms and modes

dramatic poetry, Shakespeare’s
lyric poetry, Shakespeare’s
city comedy
comedy
doggerel
epyllion
history
Jacobean tragedy
last plays
lyric
masque
pastoral
‘Problem Plays’
prose
revenge tragedy
rhyme royal
romance
romances
sonnet
Tetralogy, First
Tetralogy, Second
tragedy
tragicomedy

Dramatic terms

anagnorisis
anticlimax
deus ex machina
dramatis personae
dumb shows
epilogue
induction
‘mutes’
prologue
shared lines
soliloquy

Figures of speech

anadiplosis
anaphora
antithesis
aporia
blazon
chiasmus
conceit
euphuism
hyperbole
imagery
litotes
meiosis
metaphor
metonymy
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
paradox
parison
pathetic fallacy
prolepsis
prosopopoeia
puns
rhetoric
simile
stichomythia
synecdoche

Metrical terms

alexandrine
anapaest
anaptyxis
blank verse
brokenbacked line
caesura
couplet
dactyl
dimeter
elision
end-stopped
enjambment
epic caesura
feminine endings
foot
headless line
heroic couplets
iambic
long lines
metre
pauses
pentameter
Pyrrhic foot
short lines
spondee
squinting line
synaeresis
syncope
tetrameter
trimeter
trochee
weak endings

Linguistic features

English, Elizabethan
alliteration
anacoluthon
dialects
Dogberryism
foreign words
hendiadys
pronunciation
spelling
vocabulary

Other literary terms

allusion
anachronism
dramatic irony
irony
rhyme

Elizabethan and Jacobean literary context

Sources and influences

sources
Apuleius, Lucius
Ariosto, Ludovico
Bandello, Matteo
Belleforest, Francois de
Bible
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Brooke, Arthur
Castiglione, Baldassare
Caxton, William
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cinthio
commedia dell’arte
Du Bellay, Joachim
Elyot, Sir Thomas
Euripides
Fabyan, Robert
Famous Victories of Henry V
‘Felix and Philiomena’
Florio, Giovanni (John)
Foxe, John
Froissart, Jean
Gamelyn, Tale of
Gascoigne, George
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Giovanni (Florentino), Ser
Giulio Romano
Gl’Ingannati
Gonzaga, Curzio
Gower, John
Grafton, Richard
Greek drama
Greene, Robert
Hakluyt, Richard
Hall, Joseph
Halle, Edward
Harington, Sir John
Harrison, William
Harsnett, Samuel
Hayward, Sir John
Henryson, Robert
Holinshed, Raphael
Homer
Huon de Bordeaux
interludes
Jodelle, Etienne
Jonson, Ben
Jourdan, Sylvester
King Leir
Knolles, Richard
Kyd, Thomas
Legh, Gerard
‘Li Tre Saltiri’
Livy
Lodge, Thomas
Lucan
Lucian
Lydgate, John
Lyly, John
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Mantuanus, Baptista Spagnolo
Marlowe, Christopher
masque
Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn
Menander
miracle plays
The Mirror for Magistrates
Molyneux, Emerie
Monarcho
Montaigne, Michel de
Montemayor, Jorge de
morality plays
Mouffet, Thomas
mystery plays
oral traditions
Ovid
Painter, William
Petrarch, Francesco
Plautus
Pleiade
Pliny
Plutarch
Puttenham, George and Richard
Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
revenge tragedy
Rich, Barnabe
Ronsard, Pierre de
Rowley, Samuel
Saxo Grammaticus
Scot, Reginald
Segar, Sir William
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Sidney, Sir Philip
Sir Clyomon and Clamydes
Speed, John
Spenser, Edmund
Strachey, William
Terence
Thomas of Woodstock
Topsell, John
Tottell, Richard
The True Tragedy of Richard III
Twine, Laurence
ur-Hamlet
Virgil
‘War of the Theatres’
Warner, William
Whetstone, George

Shakespeare’s literary contemporaries

Armin, Robert
Ayrer, Jakob
Bacon, Francis
Barnes, Barnabe
Barnfield, Richard
Beaumont, Francis
Brooke, Arthur
Campion, Thomas
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Chapman, George
Chester, Robert
Chettle, Henry
Cinthio
Coryat, Thomas
Cotgrave, Randle
Daniel, Samuel
Davenport, Robert
Day, John
Dekker, Thomas
Deloney, Thomas
Donne, John
Dorset, Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of
Drayton, Michael
Drummond, William
Fletcher, John
Florio, Giovanni (John)
Foxe, John
Gascoigne, George
Gonzaga, Curzio
Gosson, Stephen
Grafton, Richard
Greene, Robert
Greville, Fulke
Grimestone, Edward
Hakluyt, Richard
Hall, Joseph
Harington, Sir John
Harrison, William
Harvey, Gabriel
Hayward, Sir John
Heywood, Thomas
Holinshed, Raphael
Jodelle, Etienne
Jonson, Benjamin
Knolles, Richard
Kyd, Thomas
Lanier, Emilia
Lodge, Thomas
Lyly, John
Markham, Gervase
Marlowe, Christopher
Massinger, Philip
Middleton, Thomas
Milton, John
Mouffet, Thomas
Mulcaster, Richard
Munday, Anthony
Nashe, Thomas
Norton, Thomas
Painter, William
Peacham, Henry
Peele, George
Pembroke, Mary Herbert, Countess of
Pleiade
Porter, Henry
Puttenham, George and Richard
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Rich, Barnabe
Ronsard, Pierre de
Rowley, Samuel
Rowley, William
Scot, Reginald
Segar, Sir William
Sidney, Sir Philip
Spenser, Edmund
Stubbes, Phillip
Topsell, John
Tottel, Richard
Turner, William
Twine, Laurence
University Wits
Warner, William
Webster, John
Whetstone, George
Wilkins, George
Wither, George
(See also Criticism and allusions before 1660, below.)

Theatrical context to 1660

The playgoing experience

acting, Elizabethan
acting profession, Elizabethan and Jacobean
act and scene divisions
Amateur Performance
audiences
groundlings
intervals
jigs
performance times, lengths
revivals
Roxana title page
soundings (of trumpets)
The Wits, title page

Theatre hierarchy, management, and records

acting profession, Elizabethan and Jacobean
companies, playing
apprentices
book-keeper
boy actors
doubling
gatherers
Henslowe, Philip
hired men
housekeepers
Langley, Francis
parts
pay
playbook
plots
prompt-book
rehearsal
repertory system
sharer
stage-hand
stage-keeper
tireman

The theatre building

flags
galleries
Gentlemen’s Rooms
groundlings
heavens
Lords Room
orchestra
pit
shadow
yard

The stage space, mechanics, and properties

‘above’
apron stage
back-cloths
costume
curtains
descent
discovery space
flats/shutters
flying
footlights
forestage
furniture
Hell
‘inner stage’
lighting
locality boards
machines
multiple setting
music room
perspective
properties
proscenium
scenery
stage decoration
stage doors
stage furniture
throne or state
tiring house
trap doors
upper stage

Theatre companies and patronage

acting profession, Elizabethan and Jacobean
companies, playing
Admiral’s Men
Chamberlain’s Men/King’s Men
Chapel Royal
children’s companies
Derby’s (Strange’s) Men
livery
patronage
Pembroke’s Men
protection of players
provincial companies, tours
Stratford-upon-Avon, Elizabethan, and the theatre

Theatres

theatres, Elizabethan and Jacobean
Blackfriars
Curtain Theatre
Fortune Theatre
Globe Theatre
Hotel de Bourgogne
London
Palladio, Andrea
Porter’s Hall
Red Lion
Rose Theatre
Swan Theatre
Theatre, The

Inns

inns

State regulation and court performances

An Act to restrain abuses of players (1606)
Buck, Sir George
censorship
Chamber Accounts
court performances
Cromwell, Oliver
Elizabeth I
Greenwich Palace
Hampton Court
Herbert, Sir Henry
James I
Lent
Lord Chamberlain
Master of the Revels
plague regulations
Privy Council
revels office and accounts
Tilney, Sir Edmund
Whitehall

Anti-theatrical debate

anti-theatrical polemic
Heywood, Thomas
religion
Stubbes, Philip

Other entertainments

animal shows
civic entertainments
masques
pageants
university performances

Theatre personnel to 1660

acting, Elizabethan
acting profession, Elizabethan and Jacobean
companies, playing
Allen, Giles
Alleyn, Edward
Armin, Robert
Beeston, Christopher
Benfield, Robert
Brayne, John
Bryan, George
Burbage, Cuthbert
Burbage, James
Burbage, Richard
Cholmeley, Richard
Condell, Henry
Cooke, Alexander
Cowley, Richard
Cox, Robert
Crosse, Samuel
Davenant, Sir William
Ecclestone, William
Field, Nathan
Gilburne, Samuel
Gough, Robert
Heminges, John
Henslowe, Philip
Hunnis, William
Jones, Inigo
Jonson, Ben
Kempe, William
Keysar, Robert
Lowin, John
Ostler, William
Phillips, Augustine
Pope, Thomas
Rice, John
Robinson, Richard
Shank, John
Sharpham, Edward
Sincler (Sinklo), John
Sly, William
Spencer, Gabriel
Street, Peter
Swanston, Eliard
Tarlton, Richard
Tawyer, William
Taylor, Joseph
Tooley, Nicholas
Underwood, John
Williams, John

Historical, social, and cultural context

art
astrology
calendar
childbirth and child-rearing
crime and punishment
death
Dutch wars
education
enclosure
fairies
food and drink
fools
ghosts
Gowrie conspiracy
Gunpowder Plot
heraldry
hunting and sports
Jews
law
marriage
medicine
monsters
Moors
nationalism
patronage
plagues
prostitution
Race
reading and the book trade
religion
science
service
sexuality
tobacco
travel, trade, and colonialism
vagrancy
war
witchcraft

Elizabethan London

(See also Theatre buildings.)
London
Bankside
Barbican
City
Clink
Counter
Dulwich
Finsbury
Greenwich Palace
Guilds
Hampton Court
Hollar, Wenceslaus
Holywell
Inns of Court
Liberties
Merchant Taylors’ School
Mermaid Tavern
Moorfields
Southwark
St Mary Overies
Stow, John
Westminster
Whitehall
Winchester House

Prominent contemporaries

Bales, Peter
Bracciano, Orsini, Duke of
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of
Carey, Elizabeth
Cecil, Robert
Cecil, William, Lord Burghley
Cobham, William Brooke, 7th Lord
Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of
Garnet, Henry
Gates, Sir Thomas
Gerard, John
Hollar, Wenceslaus
Hooker, Richard
Hunsdon, George Carey, 2nd Lord
Hunsdon, Henry Carey, 1st Lord
Jones, Inigo
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of
Lopez, Roderigo
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of
Pembroke, Mary Herbert, Countess of
Pembroke, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of
Pembroke, William Herbert, 3rd Earl of
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of
Stanley, Sir Thomas
Vernon, Elizabeth

The monarchy

Anne of Denmark
Charles I
Elector Palatine
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth of Bohemia
Henri IV of France
Henrietta Maria
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
James I

Elizabethan music and dance

music
songs in the plays
alarums
bagpipe
ballad
Bergomask (bergamasca)
brawl (branle)
broadside ballad
broken music (consort)
Byrd, William
canaries
cinquepace (sinkapace)
cittern
coranto
cornet
dance in the plays
dirge
divisions
Dowland, John
drums
dump
Edwardes, Richard
excursions
fanfare
fiddle
fife
flourish
flute
freemen’s songs
galliard
gavotte
harp
hautboy
hay (hey)
horn
hornpipe
jigs
Johnson, Robert
Jones, Robert
lute
madrigal
marches
measure
Morley, Thomas
morris dance
music of the spheres
organ
passamezzo
pavan
proportion
psaltery
rebec
recorder
regal
retreat
roundel
sackbut
sennet
strain
tabor
trumpet
tucket
ventage
viol
virginal
volta, la
Weelkes, Thomas
Wilson, John

Elizabethan and Jacobean printing, publishing, and manuscripts

printing and publishing
reading and the book trade
act and scene divisions
anonymous publications
assembled texts
blocking entry
‘book’
bookkeeper
cancel
capitalization
cases
cast-off copy
collaboration
colophon
compositors
copy
copyright
Crane, Ralph
deletion
derelict plays
Dering manuscript
device
Douai promptbooks and manuscripts
dramatis personae
emendation
entrances and exits
F
Folios
forme
foul case
foul papers
galley
handwriting
imprint
interpolations
italics
Jaggard, William and Isaac
Longleat manuscript
manuscript plays
mislineation
misprints
Moseley, Humphrey
Northumberland manuscript
Octavo
‘plots’
proofreading
punctuation
Q
Quartos
reported text
revision
Roberts, James
shorthand
Sir Thomas More
speech-prefixes
stage directions
Stationers’ Company and Register
title pages
transcripts

The editing of Shakespeare since 1700

Aspects of editing

authenticity
bibliography
canon
chronology
computers
concordances
copyright
disintegration
editing
electronic media
emendation
facsimile editions
metrical tests
parallel texts
textual criticism

Editions and editors in English

Restoration and eighteenth-century editors and editions

Bell, John
Capell, Edward
Dodd’s Beauties of Shakespeare
Hanmer, Sir Thomas
Johnson, Samuel
Malone, Edmond
Pope, Alexander
Reed, Isaac
Rowe, Nicholas
Steevens, George
Theobald, Lewis
Warburton, William

Nineteenth-century editors and editions

Boswell, James, jr
Clark, William George
Clarke, Charles Cowden
Dyce, Alexander
Family Shakespeare
Fleay, Frederick Gard
Furness, Horace Howard
Furnivall, Frederick James
Globe Shakespeare
Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard
Henry Irving Shakespeare
‘Leopold’ Shakespeare
New Variorum
Pitt Press Shakespeare
Rochfort-Smith, Teena
Rolfe’s Shakespeare
Temple Shakespeare
Variorum Shakespeare
Wright, W. Aldis

Editors and editions since 1900

Alexander, Peter
Arden Shakespeare
Bevington Shakespeare
Boas, Frederick S.
Bowers, Fredson
Cambridge Shakespeare
Cambridge Shakespeare, New
Challis Shakespeare
Folger Shakespeare
Folio Society Shakespeare
Greg, Walter Wilson
Halliday, F. E.
Harrison, George Bagshawe
Hinman, Charlton
Kittredge, G. L.
Mack, Maynard
Muir, Kenneth
New Shakespeare
New Temple Shakespeare
New Variorum
Nicoll, Allardyce
Norton Shakespeare
Old-spelling Shakespeare
Oxford Shakespeare
Pelican Shakespeare
Penguin Shakespeare
Players’ Shakespeare
Riverside Shakespeare
RSC Shakespeare
Signet Shakespeare
Sisson, C. J.
strip-cartoon Shakespeare
Tudor Shakespeare
Wilson, John Dover
Yale Shakespeare

Theatrical history of the plays

Shakespeare in the theatre, 1660–1800

Restoration and eighteenth- century Shakespearian production

Stage personnel, 1660–1800

Baddeley, Sophia
Barry, Ann
Barry, Elizabeth
Barry, Spranger
Beeston, William
Behn, Aphra
Betterton, Mary
Betterton, Thomas
Booth, Barton
Bowman, John
Bracegirdle, Anne
Cibber, Colley
Cibber, Susannah Maria
Cibber, Theophilus
Clive, Catherine
Colman, George, the Elder
Cooke, George Frederick
Crowne, John
Cumberland, Richard
Dance, James
Dogget, Thomas
Downes, John
Durfey, Thomas
Fleetwood, Charles
Foote, Samuel
Garrick, David
Harris, Henry
Henderson, John
Howard, James
Hughes, Margaret
Hull, Thomas
Johnson, Charles
Jordan, Dorothea
Kemble, Charles
Kemble, John Philip
Killigrew, Thomas
King, Thomas
Kynaston, Edward
Lacy, John
Loutherbourg, Philip Jacques de
Macklin, Charles
Mohun, Michael
Nokes, James
Palmer, John
Pope, Elizabeth
Powell, William
Pritchard, Hannah
Quin, James
Rich, John
Robinson, Mary ‘Perdita’
Schroder, Friedrich Ludwig
Sheridan, Thomas
Siddons, Sarah
Verbruggen, Susannah
Woffington, Margaret ‘Peg’
Woodward, Henry
Yates, Mary Ann

Restoration and eighteenth-century theatres and companies

Comedie Franqaise
Covent Garden Theatre
Drury Lane Theatre
Duke’s Company
Goodman’s Fields Theatre
Her Majesty’s Theatre
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Smock Alley

Adaptations and adaptors, 1640–1850

(See also the accounts of the stage history of each play, particularly for adaptations which do not significantly alter the titles of the plays they rewrite.)
adaptation
burlesques and travesties of Shakespeare’s plays
All for Love
Der Bestrafie Brudermord
Betterton, Thomas
Bottom the Weaver
The Bouncing Knight
The History and Fall of Caius Marius
Capell, Edward
Catharine and Petruchio
The Cobbler of Preston
Colman, George, the elder
The Comical Gallant
Conspiracy Discovered
Cox, Robert
Crowne, John
Cumberland, Richard
A Cure for a Scold
Cymbeline, a tragedy, altered from Shakespeare
Davenant, Sir William
Dennis, John
Dorastus and Fawnia
Droll
Dryden, John
Duffett, Thomas
Durfey, Thomas
The Fairies
The Fairy Queen
A Fairy Tale
Garrick, David
The Grave-Makers
Hauptmann, Gerhart
Hawkins, William
The History of King Lear
The Ingratitude of a Commonwealth
The Jew of Venice
Johnson, Charles
Kemble, John Philip
King Henry the Fifth: or, the Conquest of France by the English
Kirkman, Francis
Lacy, John
The Law against Lovers
Lillo, George
Love in a Forest
The Modern Receipt
Reynolds, Frederick
The Rivals
The Shipwreck
Tate, Nahum
Theobald, Lewis

Shakespeare in the theatre 1800–1900

burlesques and travesties of Shakespeare’s plays
nineteenth-century Shakespearian production
recitations and one-person shows

Stage personnel, 1800–1900

Aldridge, Ira
Anderson, Mary
Barrett, Lawrence
Barrymore family
Benson, Frank
Bernhardt, Sarah
Betty, William Henry West
Bjoernson, Bjoernstjerne
Booth, Edwin
Booth, Junius Brutus
Calvert, Charles
Cooke, George F.
Cushman, Charlotte
Daly, Augustin
Drew family
Elliston, Robert William
Faucit, Helena Saville
Fechter, Charles Albert
Fiske, Minnie Maddern
Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston
Forrest, Edwin
Greet, Sir Philip Barling Ben
Hackett family
Harvey, Sir Martin
Irving, Sir Henry
Kean, Charles
Kean, Edmund
Kemble, Frances Anne
Langtry, Lily
Macready, William Charles
Mansfield, Richard
Mantell, R. B.
Mathews, Charles James
McCullough, John Edward
Modjeska, Helena
Neilson, Adelaide
Neilson, Julia
O’Neill, Eliza
Phelps, Samuel
Planche, James Robinson
Poel, William
Rehan, Ada
Ristori, Adelaide
Rossi, Ernesto
Salvini
Savits, Jocza
Sothern, Edward Hugh
Sullivan, Barry
Terry, Ellen
Tree, Beerbohm
Vestris, Elizabeth
Ward, Genevieve
Young, Charles Mayne

Nineteenth-century theatres and companies

Comédie Franqaise
Covent Garden Theatre
Drury Lane Theatre
Her Majesty’s Theatre
Lyceum Theatre
Odeon, Theatre de l’
Old Vic
Sadler’s Wells
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre

Shakespeare in the theatre, 1900–

twentieth- and twenty-first-century Shakespearian production
modern dress

Stage personnel, 1900–

Allam, Roger
Anderson, Dame Judith
Artaud, Antonin
Ashcroft, Dame Peggy
Atkins, Robert
Audley, Maxine
Badel, Alan
Bailey, Lucy
Barrault, Jean-Louis
Barton, John
Baylis, Lilian Mary
Benthall, Michael
Bergman, Ingmar
Bloom, Claire
Bogdanov, Michael
Bradley, David
Branagh, Kenneth
Braunschweig, Stephane
Brecht, Bertolt
Bridges-Adams
Brook, Peter
Burton, Richard
Byam Shaw, Glen
Calhern, Louis
Calvert, Louis
Chereau, Patrice
Ciulei, Liviu
Colicos, John
Cooke, Dominic
Copeau, Jacques
Craig, Gordon
Deguchi, Norio
Dench, Dame Judi
Devine, George
Doran, Gregory
Dromgoole, Dominic
Evans, Dame Edith
Evans, Maurice
Eyre, Richard
Fiennes, Joseph
Fiennes, Ralph
Finney, Albert
Fluchere, Henri
Fukuda, Tsuneari
Gambon, Sir Michael
Gielgud, Sir John
Glover, Julian
Godfrey, Derek
Goodbody, Buzz
Goold, Rupert
Goring, Marius
Grandage, Michael
Granville-Barker, Harley
Gray, Terence
Guinness, Sir Alec
Guthrie, Sir Tyrone
Hall, Sir Peter
Hands, Terry
Hardy, Robert
Helpmann, Robert
Hicks, Greg
Hiddleston, Tom
Holm, Sir Ian
Hordern, Sir Michael
Houseman, John
Howard, Alan
Hunt, Hugh
Hutt, William
Hytner, Nicholas
Jackson, Sir Barry
Jacobi, Sir Derek
Jarman, Derek
Jefford, Barbara
Jones, James Earl
Kinnear, Rory
Kingsley, Ben
Komisarjevsky, Theodore
Kortner, Fritz
Krauss, Werner
Langham, Michael
Laughton, Charles
Leigh, Vivien
Lepage, Robert
Lesser, Anton
Lester, Adrian
Llorca, Denis
Marlowe, Julia
McCarthy, Lillah
McKellen, Sir Ian
Mendes, Sam
Miller, Jonathan
Mirren, Helen
Mnouchkine, Ariane
Monck, Nugent
‘Motley’
Neville, John
Ninagawa, Yukio
Noble, Adrian
Nunn, Trevor
Okhlopkov, Nikolai
Olivier, Lord
Pasco, Richard
Pennington, Michael
Pimlott, Steven
Planchon, Roger
Plummer, Christopher
Porter, Eric
Quayle, Sir Anthony
Rain, Douglas (Ontario)
Redgrave, Sir Michael
Redgrave, Vanessa
Reinhardt, Max
Richardson, Ian
Richardson, Sir Ralph
Richardson, Tony
Rigg, Dame Diana
Robeson, Paul
Russell Beale, Simon
Schell, Maximilian
Scofield, Paul
Seale, Douglas
Seide, Stuart
Shaw, Glen Byam
Sher, Sir Antony
Sinden, Sir Donald
Sjoberg, Ald
Slinger, Jonathan
Smith, Dame Maggie
Spacey, Kevin
Speaight, Robert
Stanislavsky, Konstantin
Stein, Peter
Stephens, Sir Robert
Stewart, Patrick
Strehler, Giorgio
Suzman, Janet
Suzuki, Tadashi
Tennant, David
Thorndike, Dame Sybil
Tutin, Dorothy
Tynan, Kenneth
Valk, Frederick
Vanbrugh, Violet
Vilar, Jean
Visconti, Luchino
Vitez, Antoine
Walter, Dame Harriet
Warner, David
Warner, Deborah
Webster, Margaret
Welles, Orson
West, Sam
Williams, Clifford
Williams, Harcourt
Williamson, Nicol
Wishaw, Ben
Wolfit, Sir Donald
Wood, John
Worth, Irene
Zadek, Peter

Twentieth-century theatres and companies

Barbican Theatre
Bell Shakespeare
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Cheek by Jowl
Chichester Festival Theatre
Comedie Franqaise
English Shakespeare Company
English Stage Company
Gdansk Shakespeare Festival
Glasgow Citizens’
Globe reconstructions
Her Majesty’s Theatre
National Theatre (Royal National Theatre)
New York Shakespeare Festival
Old Vic
Odeon, Theatre de l’
Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park
Punchdrunk
Romanian International Shakespeare Festival
Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Shakespeare at The Tobacco Company, Bristol
Wooster Group

Stage adaptations and burlesques, 1900–

(See also Shakespeare on film and Shakespeare’s literary influence.)
appropriation
Brecht, Bertolt
burlesques and travesties of Shakespeare’s plays
Lepage, Robert
Macbett
Marowitz, Charles
Muller, Heiner
musicals
opera
A Place Calling Itself Rome
Return to the Forbidden Planet
Shakespeare in Love
Sleep No More
Verdi, Giuseppe
The Wars of the Roses
West Side Story
Your Own Thing

Critical history of the works

critical history
scholarship

Critical schools and periods

Christian criticism
cognitive poetics
cultural materialism
feminist criticism
formalism
global Shakespeare
historical phenomenology
humanism
Jungian criticism
Marxist criticism
material culture
modernist criticism
moralist criticism
neoclassicism
New Criticism
new historicism
performance criticism
postcolonialism
postmodernism
presentism
psychoanalytic criticism
Romanticism
structuralism and poststructuralism
stylometry

Criticism and allusions before 1660

Addenbrooke, John
Aubrey, John
Barksted, William
Barnfield, Richard
Basse, William
Beaumont, Francis
Belott-Mountjoy suit
Boaden, James
Bolton, Edmund
Camden, William
Carew, Richard
Chamberlain, John
Chettle, Henry
Combe family
Cope, Sir Walter
Corbet, Richard
Covell, William
Davenant, William
Davies, John
Digges, Leonard
Dugdale, Sir William
Forman, Simon
Freeman, Thomas
Fuller, Thomas
Gesta Grayorum
Greene, Robert
Harvey, Gabriel
Harvey, Sir William
Holland, Hugh
Howes, Edmund
Impresa
James, Richard
Jonson, Ben
Keeling, Captain William
Knight, Charles
Lambarde, William
M., I. (Mabbe, James?)
Manningham, John
Markham, Gervase
Meres, Francis
Parnassus plays
Phillips, Augustine
Pimlico
Platter, Thomas
Pudsey, Edward
Quiney, Richard
Ratsey, Gamaliel
Renoldes, William
Richardson, Nicholas
Scott, William
Taylor, John
Webster, John
Weever, John
Wayte, William
Willobie his Avisa
Wotton, Henry

Criticism and scholarship, 1660–1800

Addison, Joseph
Ayscough, Samuel
Bishop, Sir William
Capell, Edward
Chalmers, Alexander
Collier, Jeremy
Davies, Richard
Dennis, John
Dodd’s Beauties of Shakespeare
Dryden, John
Farmer, Richard
Gentleman, Francis
George III
Gildon, Charles
Griffith, Elizabeth
Hanmer, Sir Thomas
Hawkins, William
Johnson, Samuel
Kames, Henry Home, Lord
Kenrick, William
Langbaine, Gerard
Lennox, Charlotte
Lessing, G. E.
Mackenzie, Henry
Malone, Edmond
Montagu, Elizabeth
Morgann, Maurice
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of
Oldys, William
Pepys, Samuel
Pope, Alexander
Reed, Isaac
Richardson, William
Rowe, Nicholas
Rymer, Thomas
Steevens, George
Theobald, Lewis
Thirlby, Styan
Tyrwhitt, Thomas
Warburton, William
Wharton, Joseph
Wood, Anthony
Wright, James

Criticism and scholarship, 1800–1900

Abbott, E. A.
Arnold, Matthew
Bagehot, Walter
Bartlett, John
Barton, Anne
Boswell, James, jr.
Bradley, A. C.
Brandes, Georg
Carlyle, Thomas
Clark, William George
Clarke, Charles Cowden
Clarke, Mary Cowden
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Cornwall, Barry (Procter, Bryan Waller)
Creizenach, Wilhelm
Cunningham, Peter
Davies, Thomas
De Quincey, Thomas
Delius, Nikolaus
Douce, Francis
Dowden, Edward
Drake, Nathan
Dyce, Alexander
Elze, Karl
Fleay, Frederick Gard
Furness, Horace Howard
Furnivall, Frederick James
Gaedertz, Karl Theodor
Gautier, Theophile
Genest, John
Gervinus, Georg Gottfried
Gollancz, Israel
Hales, John
Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard
Hazlitt, William
Herrera Bustamante, Manuel
Hudson, Henry Norman
Hunt, Leigh
Lamb, Charles and Mary
Lee, Sidney
Mallarme, Stephane
Matthews, James Brander
Moulton, Richard Green
Nerval, Gerard de
Pater, Walter
Poe, Edgar Allan
Rochfort-Smith, Teena
Saintsbury, George
Sand, George
Schlegel, August Wilhelm
Simpson, Richard
Stopes, Charlotte Carmichael
Taine, Hippolyte
Tyler, Thomas
Watkins-Lloyd, W.
Wright, W. Aldis
Ulrici, Hermann

Criticism and scholarship, 1900–

Adams, J. C.
Adams, Joseph Quincy
Alexander, Peter
Archer, William
Baldwin, Thomas Whitfield
Barton, Anne
Beerbohm, Max
Bentley, Gerald Eades
Bian Zhilin
Billington, Michael
Boas, Frederick S.
Bowers, Fredson
Bradbrook, Muriel
Brooke, C. F. Tucker
Bullough, Geoffrey
Chambers, Edmund Kerchever
Clemen, Wolfgang
Coveny, Michael
Croce, Benedetto
Eliot, Thomas Stearns
Ellis-Fermor, Una
Empson, William
Foakes, R. A.
Freud, Sigmund
Fripp, Edgar Innes
Frye, Northrop
Greg, Walter Wilson
Gundolf, Friedrich
Halliday, F. E.
Harbage, Alfred
Harris, Frank
Harrison, George Bagshawe
Hawkes, Terence
Hinman, Charlton
Hotson, Leslie
Hughes, Ted
Jones, Ernest
Kittredge, G. L.
Knight, George Wilson
Knights, L. C.
Kott, Jan
Leavis, F. R.
Legouis, Emile
Mack, Maynard
McKerrow, Ronald Brunlees
McManaway, James Gilmer
Morozov, Mikhail
Muir, Kenneth
Murry, Middleton
Nicoll, Allardyce
Pollard, Alfred William
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Rowse, A. L.
Schoenbaum, Samuel
Schucking, Levin Ludwig
Sissons, C. J.
Smidt, Kristin
Spielmann, Marion Harry
Sprague, Arthur Colby
Stoll, Elmer Edgar
Spurgeon, Caroline
Tillyard, Eustace M. W.
Wallace, Charles William
Whiter, Walter
Wilson, John Dover
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Yates, Frances, Dame

Periodicals

journals
Cahiers Elisabethains
Etudes Anglaises
Hamlet Studies
Notes and Queries
Shakespeare Jahrbuch
Shakespeare Newsletter
Shakespeare Quarterly
Shakespeare Studies
Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Yearbook

Institutions

Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library
Bodleian Library
Bodmer Library
British Council
British Library
Cambridge University
Folger Shakespeare Library
Huntington Library
International Shakespeare Conference
Oxford English Dictionary
schools, Shakespeare in (British)
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Shakespeare Institute
Theatre Museum
World Shakespeare Congress

Societies and clubs

British Empire Shakespeare Society
Deutsche Shakespeare- Gesellschaft
International Shakespeare Association
Malone Society
New Shakespeare Society
New York Shakespeare Society
Oxford University Dramatic Society
Shakespeare Association
Shakespeare Association of America
Shakespeare Club
Shakespeare Ladies’ Club
Shakespeare Society of China
Societé Franqaise Shakespeare
Yale Elizabethan Club

Shakespeare’s literary influence

Authors pervasively influenced by, and works inspired by or derived from, Shakespeare and his works

fiction
poems on Shakespeare
popular culture
Shakespeare, William, as a literary character
Auden, W. H.
Austen, Jane
Baring, Maurice
Beckett, Samuel
Bond, Edward
Borges, Jorge Luis
Brecht, Bertolt
Burgess, Anthony
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Cayatte, Andre
Cesaire, Aime
Chekhov, Anton
Clarke, Mary Cowden
Dickens, Charles
Dostoievsky, Fyodor
Dryden, John
Dumas, Alexandre
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Falstaff’s Wedding
Fletcher, John
Forbidden Planet
Freud, Sigmund
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gothic literature
Gray, Thomas
Harlequin Student
Harlequin’s Invasion
Hauptmann, Gerhart
Heine, Heinrich
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Hughes, Ted
Hugo, Victor Marie
Ibsen, Henrik
Irving, Washington
James, Henry
Jameson, Anna Brownwell
Joyce, James
Judith Shakespeare: A Romance
Keats, John
Laforgue, Jules
Lamb, Charles and Mary
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Lewis, Matthew ‘Monk’
Ludwig, Otto
Macbett
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Melville, Herman
Milton, John
Mortimer, Sir John
Muller, Heiner
Murdoch, Iris
No Bed for Bacon
Nye, Robert
Oehlenschlager, Adam
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pushkin, Alexander
Queen Margaret, or Shakespeare Goes to the Falklands
Richardson, Samuel
Romanoff and Juliet
Salom, Jaime
Schiller, Friedrich
Scott, Sir Walter
Shakespeare Wallah
Shaw, George Bernard
Soyinka, Wole
Sterne, Laurence
Stoppard, Sir Tom
Strindberg, August
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Tamayo y Baus, Manuel
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Tolstoy, Leo
Turgenev, Ivan
Twain, Mark
Vigny, Alfred de
Voltaire
Wesker, Arnold
West Side Story
Wilde, Oscar
Woolf, Virginia
Wordsworth, William
Yeats, William Butler

Shakespeare on film and television

(See entries on individual plays for information on screen versions.)
popular culture
Shakespeare on sound film
silent films
television
United States of America
Branagh, Kenneth
Forbidden Planet
Hall, Sir Peter
Kozintsev, Grigori
Kurosawa, Akira
Miller, Jonathan
musicals
Noble, Adrian
Nunn, Trevor
Olivier, Lord
Reinhardt, Max
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Shakespeare Wallah
West Side Story
Zeffirelli, Franco

Radio and recordings

Marlowe Society
radio, British
recordings
Rylands, George (Dadie)
Shakespeare Recording Society

Music and dance since 1660

ballet
music
opera
Arne, Thomas Augustine
Bach, Carl Philip Emmanuel
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Berlioz, Hector
Birtwistle, Sir Harrison
Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley
Boyce, William
Britten, Benjamin
Dibdin, Charles
Elgar, Edward
Ellington, Duke
Faure, Gabriel
Haydn, Franz Josef
Holst, Gustav
jazz
Lampe, John Frederick
Leveridge, Richard
Linley, Thomas, jr.
Locke, Matthew
Mendelssohn, Felix
Milhaud, Darius
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
musicals
Nicolai, Otto
Parry, Sir Hubert
pop music
Porter, Cole
Prokofiev, Serge
Purcell, Henry
Reynolds, Frederick
Scarlatti, Domenico
Schubert, Franz
Sibelius, Jan
Smetana, Bedrich
Strauss, Richard
Sullivan, Sir Arthur
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
Tippett, Sir Michael
Vaughan-Williams, Ralph
Verdi, Giuseppe
Wagner, Richard
Walton, William
West Side Story
Woolfenden, Guy
Your Own Thing

Shakespeare and the visual arts since 1660

painting
advertising
Barry, Sir James
Blake, William
Boydell, John
Bunbury, Henry William
Cattermole, Charles
ceramics
Cruikshank, George
Dadd, Richard
Delacroix, Eugene
Fairholt, Frederick William
Fuseli, Henry
Gower memorial
Hayman, Francis
Hogarth, William
illustrations
monuments
National Portrait Gallery
Northcote, James
Paton, Sir (Joseph) Noel
Picasso, Pablo
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Romney, George
Roubiliac, Louis Francois
RSC Collection and Gallery
Rysbrack, Michael
Scheemakers, Peter
Shakespeare Gallery
Shakespeariana statuary
Wright, Joseph (of Derby)
Wyatt, Gregg
Zoffany, Johann

Shakespeare around the globe

Shakespeare around the world

Africa (East, Southern, West)
Algeria
Arab world
Australia
Austria
Bohemia and former Czechoslovakia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Caribbean
China
Egypt
Europe
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
India
Iraq
Ireland
Italy
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Korea
Kuwait
Latin America
Lebanon
Low Countries
Morocco
New Zealand
Palestine
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia and the former Soviet Union
Scandinavia
Scotland
Singapore
Spain
Switzerland
Syria
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
United States of America
Wales

Translators and translations

translation
Astrana Marín, Luis
Beyer, Sille
Bonnefoy, Ives
Clark, Jaime
Conejero, Manuel Angel
Cruz, Ramón de la
Déprats, Jean-Michel
Eschenburg, Johann Joachim
Foersom, Peter
Fried, Erich
Fukuda, Tsuneari
Geijer, Erik Gustaf
Gide, André
Günter, Frank
Hagberg, Karl August
Hallstrom, Per
Hugo, Francois Victor
Instituto Shakespeare
Kinoshita, Junji
Lembcke, Edvard
Letourneur, Pierre
Liang Shiqui
Macpherson, Guillermo
Modenessi Michel, Alfredo
Moratín, Leondro Fernández de
Nyerere, Julius
Odashima, Yushi
Oehlenschlager, Adam
Oliva, Salvador
Pasternak, Boris
Pujante, Angel-Luis
Rothe, Hans
Sagarra, Josep Maria de
Schiller, Friedrich
Schlegel, August Wilhelm
Simrock, Karl Joseph
Tieck, Johann Ludwig
Tsubouchi, Shoyo
Valverde, José María
Voss, Johann Heinrich
Wieland, Christoph Martin
Zhu Shenghao