101 Short Essays on Shakespeare by Kent, Paul -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Foreword: ‘Many and no one’ Section 1: Shakespeare FAQs

Section 2: General Introductions to the Comedies, the Tragedies and the English Histories

Essay 11: Introduction to the Comedies Essay 12: Introduction to the Tragedies Essay 13: Introduction to the English Histories

Section 3: The Plays (in alphabetical order)

Plays and poems: timeline Essay 14: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Essay 15: All’s Well That Ends Well Essay 16: Antony & Cleopatra Essay 17: As You Like It Essay 18: Coriolanus Essay 19: Cymbeline Essay 20: Hamlet

Essay 21: King Henry IV, Part 1 Essay 22: King Henry IV, Part 2

Bonus essay: Falstaff

Essay 23: Henry V Essay 24: King Henry VI, Part 1 Essay 25: King Henry VI, Part 2 Essay 26: King Henry VI, Part 3

Bonus essay: The actual ‘Wars of the Roses’

Essay 27: King Henry VIII Essay 28: Julius Caesar Essay 29: King John Essay 30: King Lear

Bonus essay: Inside the mind of King Lear

Essay 31: Love’s Labour’s Lost Essay 32: Macbeth Essay 33: Measure for Measure Essay 34: Much Ado About Nothing Essay 35: Othello Essay 36: Pericles Essay 37: Richard II Essay 38: Richard III Essay 39: Romeo & Juliet Essay 40: The Comedy of Errors Essay 41: The Merchant of Venice Essay 42: The Merry Wives of Windsor Essay 43: The Taming of the Shrew Essay 44: The Tempest Essay 45: The Two Gentlemen of Verona Essay 46: The Two Noble Kinsmen Essay 47: The Winter’s Tale Essay 48: Timon of Athens Essay 49: Titus Andronicus Essay 50: Troilus & Cressida Essay 51: Twelfth Night Essay 52: Shakespeare’s Apocrypha

Section 4: The poems

Essay 53: ‘A Lover’s Complaint’ Essay 54: ‘The Phoenix and the Turtle’ Essay 55: ‘The Rape of Lucrece’ Essay 56: Venus & Adonis Essay 57: The sonnet form Essay 58: The Sonnets Essay 59: Interpreting Sonnet 18 Essay 60: The reputation of the Sonnets Essay 61: Shakespeare’s ‘Dark Lady’

Section 5: Shakespeare’s life and times

Essay 62: A brief biography of Shakespeare Essay 63: What did Shakespeare look like? Essay 64: The Shakespeare properties in Stratford-upon-Avon Essay 65: Shakespeare’s Roman Catholic connections Essay 66: Shakespeare’s Dad Essay 67: Shakespeare’s education Essay 68: Mrs Shakespeare Essay 69: Shakespeare’s first trip to the theatre

Section 6: Of theatres and performance

Essay 70: Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon Essay 71: Plays before Shakespeare Essay 72: Theatre before theatres Essay 73: London theatres of the 1580s Essay 74: An afternoon at the theatre in Shakespeare’s time Essay 75: Being an actor in Shakespeare’s time Essay 76: Plays and playwrights in Shakespeare’s time Essay 77: The life and myths of Shakespeare’s biggest rival: Christopher Marlowe Essay 78: The Next Best Playwright: Thomas Middleton Essay 79: Garrick’s Stratford Jubilee Essay 80: The Scottish Play Essay 81: The Royal Shakespeare Company Essay 82: Shakespeare and the USA Essay 83: Shakespeare on screen Essay 84: Laurence Olivier’s Richard III

Section 7: Of texts, authorship, sources … and other things