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  1. Who is Shakespeare?
  2. Shakespeare: Man of the Theatre
  3. Comedies of Verona, Padua, Ephesus, France and Athens: Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  4. Tragedies of Rome and Verona: Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet
  5. Five Plays of English History: Henry VI, Part I, The First Part of the Contention (Henry VI, Part II), Richard, Duke of York (Henry VI, Part III), Richard III, and King John
  6. A Poetic Interlude: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Shorter Poems, the Sonnets, and ‘A Lover’s Complaint’
  7. Four More Plays of English History: King Richard II, King Henry IV, Part I, King Henry IV, Part II, and King Henry V
  8. Comedies of Venice, Messina, France, Illyria, and Windsor: The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Merry Wives of Windsor
  9. Tragedies of Rome and Elsinore: Julius Caesar and Hamlet
  10. Plays of Troy, Vienna, and Roussillon: Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and All’s Well that Ends Well
  11. A Venetian Tragedy: Othello
  12. Tragedies of Ancient Britain and of Athens: King Lear and Timon of Athens
  13. A Scottish Tragedy: Macbeth
  14. Tragedies of Ancient Egypt and Rome: Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus
  15. Romantic Plays, Mainly of the Mediterranean: Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, and The Tempest
  16. A Lost Play Based on Don Quixote, One Last English History, and a Tragicomedy of Ancient Athens: Cardenio, Henry VIII, or all is True, and The Two Noble Kinsmen
  17. Sir Thomas More, A Funeral Elegy, and Other Works Ascribed to Shakespeare
  18. Conclusion

(originally published as ‘Shakespeare: A Dramatic Life’ by Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994)

Topics covered by this book

  1. A Funeral Elegy (poem) • Covered in chapter "Sir Thomas More, A Funeral Elegy, and Other Works Ascribed to Shakespeare"
  2. Sir Thomas More (drama) • Covered in chapter "Sir Thomas More, A Funeral Elegy, and Other Works Ascribed to Shakespeare"
  3. The Two Noble Kinsmen (drama) • Covered in chapter "A Lost Play based on Don Quixote, One Last English History, and a Tragicomedy of Ancient Athens"
  4. Cardenio (drama) • Covered in chapter "A Lost Play based on Don Quixote, One Last English History, and a Tragicomedy of Ancient Athens"
  5. The Merry Wives of Windsor (drama) • Covered in chapter "Comedies of Venice, Messina, France, Illyria, and Windsor"
  6. A Lover’s Complaint (poem) • Covered in chapter "A Poetic Interlude"
  7. Shakespeare’s Sonnets (poem) • Covered in chapter "A Poetic Interlude"
  8. The Rape of Lucrece (poem) • Covered in chapter "A Poetic Interlude"
  9. Venus and Adonis (poem) • Covered in chapter "A Poetic Interlude"
  10. Two Gentlemen of Verona (drama) • Covered in chapter "Comedies of Verona, Padua, Ephesus, France and Athens"
  11. Henry VI (drama) • Covered in chapter "Five Plays of English History"
  12. Henry IV (drama) • Covered in chapter "Four More Plays of English History"
  13. Timon of Athens (drama) • Covered in chapter "Tragedies of Ancient Britain and of Athens"
  14. The Tempest (drama) • Covered in chapter "Romantic Plays, Mainly of the Mediterranean"
  15. The Taming of the Shrew (drama) • Covered in chapter "Comedies of Verona, Padua, Ephesus, France and Athens"
  16. The Comedy of Errors (drama) • Covered in chapter "Comedies of Verona, Padua, Ephesus, France and Athens"
  17. Romeo and Juliet (drama) • Covered in chapter "Tragedies of Rome and Verona"
  18. Macbeth (drama) • Covered in chapter "A Scottish Tragedy"
  19. Love’s Labour’s Lost (drama) • Covered in chapter "Comedies of Verona, Padua, Ephesus, France and Athens"
  20. King Lear (drama) • Covered in chapter "Tragedies of Ancient Britain and of Athens"
  21. Henry VIII, or All Is True (drama) • Covered in chapter "A Lost Play based on Don Quixote, One Last English History, and a Tragicomedy of Ancient Athens"
  22. Julius Caesar (drama) • Covered in chapter "Tragedies of Rome and Elsinore"
  23. Coriolanus (drama) • Covered in chapter "Tragedies of Ancient Egypt and Rome"
  24. Antony and Cleopatra (drama) • Covered in chapter "Tragedies of Ancient Egypt and Rome"
  25. All’s Well That Ends Well (drama) • Covered in chapter "Plays of Troy, Vienna, and Roussillon"
  26. Richard II (drama) • Covered in chapter "Four More Plays of English History"
  27. Henry V (drama) • Covered in chapter "Four More Plays of English History"
  28. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (drama) • Covered in chapter "Comedies of Verona, Padua, Ephesus, France and Athens"
  29. Othello (drama) • Covered in chapter "A Venetian Tragedy"
  30. The Winter’s Tale (drama) • Covered in chapter "Romantic Plays, Mainly of the Mediterranean"
  31. Cymbeline (drama) • Covered in chapter "Romantic Plays, Mainly of the Mediterranean"
  32. Titus Andronicus (drama) • Covered in chapter "Tragedies of Rome and Verona"
  33. Troilus and Cressida (drama) • Covered in chapter "Plays of Troy, Vienna, and Roussillon"
  34. Richard III (drama) • Covered in chapter "Five Plays of English History"
  35. King John (drama) • Covered in chapter "Five Plays of English History"
  36. Much Ado About Nothing (drama) • Covered in chapter "Comedies of Venice, Messina, France, Illyria, and Windsor"
  37. Measure for Measure (drama) • Covered in chapter "Plays of Troy, Vienna, and Roussillon"
  38. The Merchant of Venice (drama) • Covered in chapter "Comedies of Venice, Messina, France, Illyria, and Windsor"
  39. Hamlet (drama) • Covered in chapter "Tragedies of Rome and Elsinore"
  40. As You Like It (drama) • Covered in chapter "Comedies of Venice, Messina, France, Illyria, and Windsor"
  41. Twelfth Night (drama) • Covered in chapter "Comedies of Venice, Messina, France, Illyria, and Windsor"
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