SHAKESPEARE FACT SHEETS

 

 

Characters, sources, biographical history, performance history, filmography, publication history and line counts for every play and poem of William Shakespeare. Use our Fact Sheets for easy to view notes, information and study guides to each and every Shakespeare play and poem. 

SHAKESPEARE FACT SHEETS

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Biography:

 Shakespeare Biographical Timeline - for key dates in Shakespeare's life

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Dating the plays and poems:

Shakespeare's Plays and Poems Timeline - listed in chronological order

Dates of Shakespeare's Plays by Groups - chronologically by categories

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Length of the plays:

Shakespeare Plays Length - listed in order of line length

Shakespeare Line Counts - line numbers in total, by scene, by act, and of the dramatis personae in each play

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Publication of the plays and poems:

Shakespeare Publications - how the Plays and Poems were printed

Shakespeare Folios - background and list of the plays included in the Folios 

Shakespeare Quartos - background and list of plays published in Quarto editions

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Characters in the plays:

Shakespeare Characters - full list of dramatis personae and line counts in each play

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Theatre history of the plays:

Shakespeare Performance Histories - theatrical performances of the plays from first to recent productions

Shakespeare's Globe - the history of the Globe Theatre

Shakespeare's Actors - list of the actors as printed in First Folio of 1623

Shakespeare's Theatre - A Performance - an imagining of a day at the theatre

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Film history of the plays:

Shakespeare Filmographies - the plays of Shakespeare on film

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Synopsis of the plays:

Play Synopsis

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Sources of the plays:

Play Sources

Fact Sheets for the plays & poems

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 All's Well That Ends Well

Antony and Cleopatra

As You Like It

The Comedy of Errors

Coriolanus

Cymbeline

Hamlet

Henry IV Pt 1

Henry IV Pt 2

Henry V

Henry VI Parts 1 2 3

Henry VIII

Julius Caesar

King John

King Lear

Love's Labour's Lost

Macbeth

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Pericles

Richard II

Richard III

Romeo and Juliet

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Troilus and Cressida

Twelfth Night

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Noble Kinsmen

The Winter's Tale

The Sonnets

Venus and Adonis

Narrative Poems

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