John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, [London], 1634 - p. 18, D1v
A Shakespeare collaboration.
The Two Noble Kinsmen includes pageantry in the 'masque' style that Shakespeare introduced to his late 'romance' plays like The Tempest and Pericles, and has scenes reminiscent ...
John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, [London], 1634 - p.19, D2r.
Shakespeare writes of Palamon and Arcite in prison.
The story of the Theban princes Palamon and Arcite is that told by the Knight in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. From their prison window the princes ...
John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, [London], 1634 - title page
Shakespeare collaborates on writing a play.
Towards the end of his career in London Shakespeare collaborated with the younger playwright, John Fletcher in the writing of Henry VIII in 1612, and then ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - Puck's epilogue.
Puck, as Epilogue in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The fairy magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream brings the play to an end as Puck speaks the epilogue after Theseus and his newly-wed courtiers ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - 'Pyramus and Thisbe' play, p.H3r.
The play presented before the court in Shakespeare's A Midsummer’ Night’s Dream.
The play of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’, like the other plays presented in Shakespeare’s Love’s ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - quarto edition, Oberon and Puck, p.C2v.
‘I know a bank where the wild thyme blows...’.
The name ‘quarto’ used for the earliest printed texts of some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays refers to the size of ...
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - p.B2rof the second quarto..
An eternal theme - bastardy and legitimacy in Shakespeare.
Edmund’s evil nature is presented immediately he is alone with the audience. The conflict between legitimate and illegitimate children ...
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - p.B2r, detail, Edmund's soliloquy.
‘Thou Nature art my goddess’: evil in Shakespeare.
In the 'quarto' edition Edmund, the eldest son of the Earl of Gloucester, is named Bastard in the speech headings, perhaps reflecting ...
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - quarto title page.
Title page information about Shakespeare's the play of King Lear.
This 'quarto' page is from the edition with a false earlier date on the title-page, published by Thomas Pavier without the permission ...
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - the play ends with a song of winter
Poetry in Shakespeare's plays: ‘When icicles hang by the wall’.
The play of Love’s Labour’s Lost concludes, as was the custom in many comedies of the time, with a song, in this ...
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - the Nine Worthies' play ends
The conclusion of a Shakespeare comedy in dance and song: Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Before the winter song comes a song of summer. Both are performed at the end of the play by the group of ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 ,'First Folio', - The Tempest, p. A1r.
Shakespeare's first and last: The Tempest.
The Tempest was almost the last play written by William Shakespeare, but in the ‘Folio’ edition it appears first. There was no ‘quarto’ ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio'- detail, Ben Jonson's Poem, p. A4r.
The 'First Folio'’s commendatory poem by Ben Jonson.
At the beginning of the ‘First Folio’ is a eulogy by Shakespeare’s friend, and rival playwright, Ben Jonson, who had published ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'To be or not to be…', p.265, p.oo5r, detail.
‘To be, or not to be’: Shakespeare’s interest in mortality.
Hamlet’s soliloquy beginning: ‘To be, or not to be’ (3,1, lines 58-90), in which the prince contemplates ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'Twelfth Night', 'Illyria', p.Y2r, detail.
‘This is Illyria lady.’: The setting of Twelfth Night.
Few of Shakespeare’s comedies were set in England, although it is not known if the playwright ever travelled abroad. When Viola ...
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 ...