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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface: Why Shakespeare?
List of illustrations
Chapter 1: Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare’s education
Shakespeare’s reading
Chapter 2: Theatre in Shakespeare’s time
The theatrical scene
Playing spaces
The actors
Shakespeare’s early career
The narrative poems
The Lord Chamberlain’s, later the King’s Men
Chapter 3: Shakespeare in London
Shakespeare’s sonnets
Shakespeare’s last years
The First Folio
Where do the plays come from?
How Shakespeare worked
Chapter 4: Plays of the 1590s
History plays
Henry VI, Parts One to Three, and Richard III
Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet
Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V
Edward III and King John
Chapter 5: Shakespeare and comic form
Early comedies
Later comedies for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men
Chapter 6: Return to tragedy
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
A change of direction
Chapter 7: Classical plays
Chapter 8: Tragicomedy
Shakespeare and Fletcher
Epilogue
Shakespeare’s works: a chronology
Further reading
Editions
Reference
Life
Life and Afterlife
Sources
Criticism
Theatre
Film
Text
Authorship
Language
Context
Index
English Literature
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