Frye’s Abbreviations for Titles of Shakespeare’s Poems and Plays

Throughout his notebooks and typed notes, Frye consistently uses the same set of abbreviations for the titles of Shakespeare’s plays and poems. A list is provided here in order to avoid hundreds of expansions within brackets throughout the text. It is usually clear from the context whether AC refers to Antony and Cleopatra or Anatomy of Criticism, but expansions have been added in the rare cases where they are needed.

1H4, H41	Henry IV, Pt. 1
2H4, H42	Henry IV, Pt. 2
1H6, H61	Henry VI, Pt. 1
2H6, H62	Henry VI, Pt. 2
3H6, H63	Henry VI, Pt. 3
AC, A&C	Antony and Cleopatra
AW	All’s Well That Ends Well
AY, AYL	As You Like It
CE, E	The Comedy of Errors
Co	Coriolanus
Cy	Cymbeline
H	Hamlet
H5	Henry V
H8	Henry VIII
J, KJ	King John
JC	Julius Caesar
KL, L	King Lear
LL, LLL	Love’s Labour’s Lost
M	Macbeth
MA, MAN	Much Ado about Nothing
MD, MND	A Midsummer Night’s Dream
MM	Measure for Measure
MV	The Merchant of Venice
MW, MWW	The Merry Wives of Windsor
O	Othello
P	Pericles
PT, P&T	The Phoenix and Turtle
R2	Richard II
R3	Richard III
RJ	Romeo and Juliet
RL	The Rape of Lucrece
S	Sonnets
T	The Tempest
TA, TAnd, Tit	Titus Andronicus
TAth, Tim	Timon of Athens
TC	Troilus and Cressida
TG, TGV	Two Gentlemen of Verona
TNK	The Two Noble Kinsmen
TS	The Taming of the Shrew
TW	Twelfth Night
VA	Venus and Adonis
W, WT	The Winter’s Tale