Rough Guide - Reference - Shakespeare 2nd 2009.pdf

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Shakespeare's middle-period comedies fizz with energy and quizzical wit, and repeatedly
send up the folly of desire. In this scene from
As You Like It,
the heroine Rosalind (Juliet
Stevenson, left) is testing the devotion of her lover Orlando (Hilton McRae) by pretending to
be someone else entirely; Shakespeare will have a great deal of fun with mistaken identity
before he allows the inevitable happy ending to arrive (see p.23).
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Contents
Introduction
How to use this book
Q&As
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Contents
Part I
The plays
All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Edward III
Hamlet
Henry IV Part I
Henry IV Part II
Henry V
Henry VI Part I
Henry VI Part II
Henry VI Part III
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter’s Tale
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Part II
The poems
A Lover’s Complaint
The Rape of Lucrece
The Sonnets
Venus and Adonis
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Though often neglected, Shakespeare’s late plays are experimental masterpieces, often touched with semi-mythical overtones, and
deliver some of his most disarming emotional climaxes. In
Cymbeline,
captured here in 2007 by the Cheek By Jowl troupe, a pair of
lovers is torn apart and will only be reunited when they both cheat death (see p.54).
Contents
Part III
Contexts
Shakespeare’s life
Shakespeare’s stages
Shakespeare’s language
Shakespeare’s canon
Colleagues and rivals
Shakespeare for kids
Books
Websites
Glossary of useful terms
Author’s acknowledgements
Picture credits
Index
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