William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'Henry the Fifth', p.h1r.
The Prologue to Shakespeare's Henry V.
Shakespeare’s history plays turn the stories found in the English chronicles into tales of human tragedy, discussing the conflicts of life, death and power. ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - List of Actors, p.A6r.
Shakespeare’s fellow actors.
The company of actors known as the King’s Men, who first performed Shakespeare’s plays, had their names listed in the ‘First Folio’. Among ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - List of Plays, p.A8r.
The comedies, histories and tragedies: play titles in the ‘First Folio’.
The plays, collected together by Shakespeare’s fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, for the ‘First ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'Macbeth', p131, p.II 6r.
Macbeth: the text as it first appeared in print.
Macbeth is one of the ‘First Folio’ plays for which there was no previously printed text. Like those of his contemporary fellow playwrights, ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - title page
The 'First Folio' of Shakespeare’s plays.
The book known as the 'First Folio' is a collection of thirty-six of Shakespeare’s plays gathered together and published seven years after the ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, First Folio' - 'Twelfth Night', opening scenes, p.Y2r.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will, in the Shakespeare ‘First Folio’.
The ‘First Folio’ included eighteen plays that had not previously been printed. These included some of the ...
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice,, 1600 [1619] - Portia pleads for mercy, p.H3r.
‘The quality of mercy’ at Shylock’s trial, in Shakespeare's play.
Antonio’s trial when his forfeit bond is due to be answered contains one of Shakespeare’s most famous ...
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 1600 [1619] - casket scene
Aragon chooses a casket in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Shakespeare explores the idea of obedience in women as Portia has agreed to accept her father’s unusual will which states that ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - Fairies, p.C3r.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: a Shakespeare fairy song.
The songs, including the fairies’ lullaby to Bottom and Titania, were printed along with the main text of the play in the ‘quarto’ ...
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - F1r, storm scene
Lear’s madness in the storm scene in Shakespeare's play.
The ‘quarto’ text of King Lear differs in about 300 lines from the text printed in the ‘First Folio’ and scholars ...
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - Act 4 begins with after dinner discussion
Shakespeare’s schoolteacher is parodied.
Much of the comedy in Love’s Labour’s Lost is centred on the school teacher and clergyman who are always quoting the Latin classics, and who ...
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 1600 [1619] - Antonio's melancholy, p.A2r.
Antonio: the merchant in Shakespeare's play of Venice.
Antonio, the Venetian merchant of the play’s title, opens the action with a lament for his depression and worry that all his wealth is at ...
William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, 1594, leaf F4v.
Shakespeare’s first published works.
The long poem, Venus and Adonis, was Shakespeare’s first published work. It was printed in 1593 by Stratford-born Richard Field, and dedicated to Henry ...
William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, 1594. Single leaf F4r.
Shakespeare’s themes for his early poems are rooted in his education.
The stories and imagery in Venus and Adonis, and later in The Rape of Lucrece owed much to the usual Elizabethan school curriculum ...
William Shakespeare, Quartos, A midsummer night's dreame, 1600 [1619] - title page
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The ‘quarto’ text titlepage.
The title page of the paper-back pamphlet, or ‘quarto’ version of Shakespeare’s plays often carried an advertising ...
William Shakespeare, Quartos, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - final scene
The end of Shakespeare's King Lear.
The differing texts of King Lear include changes in assignment of speeches to Albany, at the end of the quarto edition, or to Edgar at the end of the Folio text ...
William Shakespeare, Quartos, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - title page
A play for the Blackfriars Theatre: Shakespeare's Love’s Labour’s Lost.
The first ‘quarto' of Love’s Labour’s Lost was printed in 1598 and formed the basis for the ‘folio’ ...
William Shakespeare, Quartos, The Merchant of Venice, 1600 [1619] - title page.
A ‘Pavier’ quarto of Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice title page.
This title-page of The Merchant of Venice ‘quarto’ summarises the plot in its descriptive sub-title. The ...