Found 517 results for "Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, contemporaries"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...
Plays (36)
by William Shakespeare
Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.
All's Well That Ends Well
by William Shakespeare
Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...
Henry IV, Part 1
by William Shakespeare
So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breath short-winded accents of new...
King Richard II
by William Shakespeare
Richard. Old John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster, Hast thou according to thy oath and band Brought hither Henry Herefo...
Coriolanus
by William Shakespeare
This is one of Shakespeare's bleakest comments on human history.
Troilus and Cressida
by William Shakespeare
Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapperclawed with the palms of the vulgar,...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Two Gentlemen of Verona
by William Shakespeare
Valentine. Cease to perswade, my louing Protheus;
The Merry Wives of Windsor
by William Shakespeare
Shallow. Sir Hugh, perswade me not: I will make a StarChamber matter of it, if hee were twenty Sir Iohn Falstoffs, he sh...
Shakespeare
by Bill Bryson
Before he came into a lot of money in 1839, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, second Duke of ...