Shakespeare: A Playgoer's & Reader's Guide is your essential companion to all Shakespeare's extant works (as well as those known to be lost). Two of our most eminent Shakespeare scholars guide us through his sonnets, his poems, and his plays, providing the reader with detailed scene-by-scene plot synopses, cast lists, notes on the texts and sources, discussions of artistic features, and accounts of significant productions on stage and screen.
Derived from the acclaimed Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, and fully updated to reflect the latest scholarship and most recent notable productions, it is the ideal compact guide for students and theatre-goers needing a helpful plot summary, or readers wishing to browse on fascinating background information.
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...crammed with information of the most detailed kind. One particularly magnificent section gives the entire chronology of every one of the families involved in the history plays... This is a book with no messing about. It gives its information clearly and in a pithy manner which enables the reader to absorb a great deal of information without too much cerebral effort...this little book has a wonderfully powerful kick. * ON: YORKSHIRE * A thorough and accessible resource... * Nick Smurthwaite, Drama & Theatre Magazine * Distilled and updated from OUP's earlier Oxford Companion to Shakespeare , this book would be a fine starting point for anyone wanting or needing to know more about the man and his work. * Susan Elkin, School Librarian *
| A Short Life of William Shakespeare (1564--1616) |
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All's Well That Ends Well |
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Cymbeline, King of Britain |
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The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI) |
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
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77 | (9) |
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125 | (10) |
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135 | (2) |
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154 | (8) |
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The Merry Wives of Windsor |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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177 | (9) |
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186 | (7) |
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203 | (6) |
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209 | (2) |
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211 | (4) |
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The Reign of King Edward the Third (Edward III) |
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Richard Duke of York (3 Henry VI) |
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221 | (7) |
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228 | (7) |
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235 | (10) |
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245 | (10) |
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255 | (1) |
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256 | (7) |
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263 | (8) |
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271 | (9) |
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280 | (6) |
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286 | (7) |
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293 | (8) |
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Twelfth Night; or, What You Will |
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301 | (9) |
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
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310 | (6) |
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316 | (7) |
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323 | (4) |
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327 | (10) |
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Shakespeare's Life, Works, and Reception: A Partial Chronology, 1564--2020 |
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337 | (11) |
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Family Tree of Characters in the English Histories |
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348 | (2) |
| Some Suggested Further Reading |
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Michael Dobson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, a member of the Council of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and an honorary governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company: his previous appointments include posts at Oxford, Harvard, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of London, and he has held fellowships and visiting appointments in California, Sweden and China. His publications include The Making of the National Poet (1992), England's Elizabeth (with Nicola Watson, 2002), Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today (2006), and Shakespeare and Amateur Performance (2011).
Sir Stanley Wells, CBE, FRSL, is Honorary President, Life Trustee, and former Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. He was Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, from 1988-1997, and is now Emeritus Professor. He is an Honorary Emeritus Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has been General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare since 1978 and is General Editor of the Penguin Shakespeare. One of the most distinguished Shakespearian scholars currently working, his publications include The Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare (1998), Shakespeare: The Poet and his Plays (2001), The Oxford Shakespeare: King Lear (2001), Shakespeare For All Time (2002), Shakespeare & Co (2006), Shakespeare, Sex, and Love (2010), Great Shakespeare Actors (2015), William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction (2015), and Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction (2017).
