William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - Commendatory letter 'to the great variety of readers', p.A3r
Shakespeare’s friends write about the ‘First Folio’.
John Heminge and Henry Condell, Shakespeare's fellow members in the King's Men at the Globe wrote dedicatory and prefatory letters ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - detail, Macbeth, p.131, p.II 6r.
Macbeth: Shakespeare’s ‘Scottish’ play.
Macbeth, which has earned a reputation among the superstitious and has become known by many actors as ‘The Scottish play’, begins ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - detail, 'To be or not to be…', p.265, oo5r.
A scene begins as Hamlet enters an empty stage: in Shakespeare's 'First Folio'.
Many of the ‘quarto’ texts, and some of those in the 'First Folio' edition, of the plays were printed without ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - from the text of 'Hamlet'', p.265, p.oo5r.
The tragedie of Hamlet: A page of Shakespeare's 'First Folio' text.
The ‘First Folio’ presents the plays as authorised by the acting company. Some, such as Hamlet 3,1, had appeared earlier ...
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' - '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' - Roles presented by actors in the play of 'Henry V', p. gg8 v
Characters listed for Shakespeare’s Henry V.
The 'First Folio' did not generally list the characters in a play, but Henry V is an exception. In the Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies ...
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, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 , 'First Folio', - binding view
A ‘folio’ owned by The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
The tooling on the spine of this copy of the Shakespeare 'First Folio' matches the restraint of the work on the front and back boards ...
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 ...