This book is a 'one-stop-shop' for the busy undergraduate studying Shakespeare. Offering detailed guidance to the plays most often taught on undergraduate courses, the volume targets the topics tutors choose for essay questions and is organised to help students find the information they need quickly.
- 257 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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The Student's Guide to Shakespeare
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Historical chronology
- Glossary
- How this book will work
- Introduction
- Part I. Tragedies
- 1 Romeo and Juliet
- 2 Hamlet
- 3 Othello
- 4 Macbeth
- 5 King Lear
- 6 Anthony and Cleopatra
- Part II. Comedies
- 7 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- 8 The Merchant of Venice
- 9 Twelfth Night, or What You Will
- 10 Measure for Measure
- Part III. Histories
- 11 ‘The Henriad’ (Richard II, Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2, Henry V)
- 12 The Henry VI trilogy and Richard III
- Part IV. Late plays
- 13 The Winter’s Tale
- 14 The Tempest
- Index
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