Shakespeare Commentaries

Main Guides

Intro to Shakespeare’s Life & Times | Shakespeare’s Language & Art Pt. 1 | Shakespeare’s Language & Art Pt. 2 | Intro to Shakespeare’s Comedies | Intro to Shakespeare’s History Plays | English Monarchy Timeline

Comedies

All’s Well That Ends Well | As You Like It | Comedy of Errors | Love’s Labor’s Lost | Measure for Measure | Merchant of Venice | Merry Wives of Windsor | Midsummer Night’s Dream | Much Ado about Nothing | Taming of the Shrew | Troilus and Cressida | Twelfth Night | Two Gentlemen of Verona †

Tragedies

Antony and Cleopatra | Coriolanus | Hamlet | Julius Caesar | King Lear | Macbeth | Othello | Romeo and Juliet | Timon of Athens | Titus Andronicus

Romances

Cymbeline | Pericles, Prince of Tyre | Tempest | Two Noble Kinsmen † | Winter’s Tale

Histories – Major Tetralogy

Richard II | 1 Henry IV | 2 Henry IV | Henry V

Histories – Minor Tetralogy

1 Henry VI † | 2 Henry VI † | 3 Henry VI † | Richard III

Histories – Other

Henry VIII | King John

Shakespeare’s Contemporaries

Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy
Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus
Jonson, Ben. Volpone, or The Fox
Webster, John. The Duchess of Malfi

† Material for this play will be posted as time permits.