CONTENTS

Preface

List of Abbreviations

I   Introduction

II   Early Plays

1.   The Comedy of Errors

2.   The Two Gentlemen of Verona

3.   The Taming of the Shrew

4.   Titus Andronicus

5.   1 Henry VI

6.   2 Henry VI

7.   3 Henry VI

8.   Richard III

9.   Romeo and Juliet

10.   Richard II

11.   A Midsummer-Night’s Dream

12.   Love’s Labour’s Lost

13.   King John

III   Comedies and Histories

14.   The Merchant of Venice

15.   1 Henry IV

16.   2 Henry IV

17.   The Merry Wives of Windsor

18.   Henry V

19.   Much Ado about Nothing

20.   Julius Caesar

21.   As You Like It

22.   Twelfth Night

23.   Troilus and Cressida

IV   Tragic Period

24.   Hamlet

25.   All’s Well that Ends Well

26.   Measure for Measure

27.   Othello

28.   King Lear

29.   Macbeth

30.   Timon of Athens

31.   Antony and Cleopatra

32.   Coriolanus

V   Last Plays

33.   Pericles

34.   Cymbeline

35.   The Winter’s Tale

36.   The Tempest

37.   Henry VIII

Notes

Index