First Folio (1623) 43–4, 72, 73, 74, 76, 79, 169
powerful off-stage pictures 88–9
problematic endings 90–93
prose 89–90
proverbs and aphorisms 50–51
quill pens and ink 75–6
rhetorical skill 49–50
S’s Machiavels 86–7
All is True (Henry VIII) (collaboration with Fletcher) 38, 39, 72, 99
All’s Well That Ends Well 51, 53, 70, 91, 99, 110, 118
Antony and Cleopatra 52, 62–4, 68–9, 80, 82, 92, 104–5
As You Like It 18, 54, 56, 84, 86, 88, 106–7, 140–41
Cardenio (lost play, collaboration with Fletcher) 39, 72
The Comedy of Errors 51, 66, 86
Coriolanus 52, 65, 68, 80, 109, 110, 164
Cymbeline 18, 51, 53, 70, 79, 80, 84, 87, 99, 109, 122–3, 129, 159
Edward III 73, 89
Hamlet 51, 53, 65, 73, 82, 88–9, 90, 92, 118–19, 130–33, 150, 154, 157
Henry IV Part One 54, 56, 65, 109, 114–16
Henry IV Part Two 54, 56, 109, 114–16, 163
Henry V 54, 60–61, 69, 77–8, 80, 109, 110–113, 153
Henry VI Part One 26, 50, 53, 72, 82, 89, 109
Henry VI Part Two 53, 82, 109, 129
Henry VI Part Three 25–6, 53, 80, 82, 86, 109, 113
The History of King Lear 74, 161
Julius Caesar 52, 69, 80, 87, 89, 109, 155–6
King John 86, 89, 109
King Lear 21, 53, 54, 73, 80, 109, 129, 136
The London Prodigal 73
Love’s Labour’s Lost 34, 55, 56, 80, 82, 90, 154
Macbeth 53, 70, 72, 82, 109, 110, 119–22, 150, 154, 158, 165–7
Measure for Measure 53, 70, 72, 82, 87, 91, 116–18, 161, 163
The Merchant of Venice 53, 57, 83, 84, 107
The Merry Wives of Windsor 55, 56, 86, 89, 162–3
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 21, 52, 55, 65–6, 73, 86, 91, 105–6, 129
Caird’s production (1989) 7
‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ play within a play 7, 65
Much Ado About Nothing 53, 64–5, 86, 89, 110, 161, 162
Othello 53, 59, 60, 69, 73, 74, 82, 83, 87, 92–3, 110, 154
Pericles (collaboration with George Wilkins) 52, 54, 72
recycling of own work 83
Richard II 33–4, 54, 57, 58, 80, 89, 119
Richard III 35, 53, 80, 86, 88
Romeo and Juliet 56, 57–8, 88, 89–90, 98–9, 101–4, 105
The Taming of the Shrew 51, 53, 83, 88, 91, 162
The Tempest 51, 55, 82, 124, 137, 161, 162
Timon of Athens 52, 72, 80
Titus Andronicus 26, 51, 72, 82, 109–110, 129
The Tragedy of King Lear 18, 65, 66, 74, 92, 128
Troilus and Cressida 27, 51, 52–3, 58, 70, 73, 79–80, 83, 107, 109, 163
Twelfth Night, or What You Will 47, 49, 54, 56, 66, 69–70, 84, 86, 91, 107, 124, 161
The Two Gentlemen of Verona 53, 83–91
The Two Noble Kinsman (collaboration with Fletcher) 39–40, 52, 70, 72, 107–8
The Winter’s Tale 54, 56, 70, 80, 87, 124–7, 161, 162
A Yorkshire Tragedy 73
poems
‘A Lover’s Complaint’ 99
‘The Phoenix and Turtle’ 99–100
The Rape of Lucrece 20, 28, 33, 51, 86, 93, 94–6, 121
Sonnets 34, 97–100, 137–40
Sonnet 12 143
Sonnet 17 143
Sonnet 18 108, 143
Sonnet 27 143
Sonnet 29 143
Sonnet 30 108, 143
Sonnet 36 98
Sonnet 43 108
Sonnet 57 108
Sonnet 66 154
Sonnet 71 143
Sonnet 73 138–40, 141–3
Sonnet 80 108
Sonnet 94 97
Sonnet 98 143
Sonnet 115 108
Sonnet 116 97, 98, 108
Sonnet 128 98
Sonnet 129 143
Sonnet 130 108–9, 143
Sonnet 138 143
Sonnet 144 97
Sonnet 146 97
Sonnet 151 94
Venus and Adonis 20, 28, 51, 57, 93–4, 95
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The 31
Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon 55
Shakespeare in Love (film) 86
Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Henley
Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire 7, 23
‘the Birthroom’ 10
butcher’s shop 10
eastern wing 11
Garrick spends a night there 10
The Maidenhead pub, later The Swan and Maidenhead 9, 10, 12
pilgrims to 9, 10, 147, 153
S inherits and extends 9
Shakespeare Hart inherits 9–10
western wing 15
Shakespeare’s Sonnets 99
Shaw, George Bernard 160
Sheep Street, Stratford-upon-Avon 23
Siddons, Sarah 150
Sidney, Sir Philip: Arcadia 54
Silver Street, London 30, 38
Sitwell, Edith 162
Smiley, Jane 150
Snitterfield, Warwickshire 10, 15
South Africa: apartheid 154
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of 28–9, 34
speaking Shakespeare: the Sonnets 137–45
be aware of ends of lines 142–3
do not be tempted to ‘perform’ the sonnet 143
look for antitheses 141–2
pay attention to personal pronouns 142
reading while on a walk 144
recognise the architecture of the sonnet 143
three initial readings 138–40
time taken to read 144–5
use own voice 140–41
Strand, London 34
Stratford Jubilee (1769) 10, 152–3
Stratford Rent Roll (1561) 30
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire central location 13
malting 31
market town 13
plague (1564) 13
prosperity 13
severe fires 32, 39
S’s investments 36–7
S’s visits while living in London 27
Town Council 12, 15, 152
Winter’s map (1759) 10
stylometric tests 71–2
Susenbrotus 20
Suzman, Janet 154
Swan and Maidenhead pub, The see under Shakespeare’s Birthplace
T
Taylor, Gary 156–7
Terence 20
Thames River 18, 32
theatre
censorship 33
closures 27, 33, 94
companies’ patronage 27, 34
engaging with theatre history 134
first major playhouse opens 26
the Globe opens 32
location of playhouses in London 26–7
popularity 18, 26
and Puritans 26
rapid development of 18
reviews 134–6
Theatre, The, Shoreditch, London 26, 32
Tilney, Edmund 71
Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America 153
Tolstoy, Leo: Shakespeare and the Drama 160
Tower of London 34
transgression, making 119–23
Giacomo in Cymbeline 122–3
Macbeth 119–22
murder and guilt 119, 121–2
Richard III 119
S’s fascination with the criminal mind 119
S’s imagery 120–22
Trojan War 109
Troy 51
True Chronicle History of King Leir and his Three Daughters, The 54
Tully 20
Twine, Laurence: The Pattern of Painful Adventures 54
U
USSR, former 154
V
Virgil 20
Aeneid 51
W
Wagner, Richard 105
> Walker, William (S’s godson) 43
war, making 109–114
and the church 110
deplored by S 110–114
effects on landscape 113
features in S’s plays 109–110
Henry V 110–113
S’s treatment of war compared with that of Wilfred Owen 113–14
Ward, Rev. John, vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon 40–41, 45–6
Wars of the Roses 25–6, 53, 113
Welcombe, Warwickshire 36, 40
Wells, Stanley 43, 168
Westminster Abbey, London: S’s statue in Poets’ Corner 152
Wheeler, Margaret 43
Whetstone, George: Promus and Cassandra 53
Wilkes, Thomas: A General View of the Stage 36
Wilkins, George 54, 72
Wilmcote, Warwickshire 11, 15
Wilson, Thomas 42
Winchester, Bishop of 26
Winter, Samuel: map of Stratford-upon-Avon 10
Woodstock, Oxfordshire 20
wool trade 12, 14–15
Woolf, Virginia 157
Worcester, Bishop of 22
World Shakespeare Festival (2012) 168
Wotton, Sir Henry 38–9
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