Shakespeare's Stories: Elizabethan Comedies and Tragedies

In class students read, analysed and discussed the main aspects of these plays. The plays highlighted in red, were the plays we discussed in class. They shared with the class the plots and also interesting points addressed in the Signet Classical Shakespeare Series edition.

COMEDIES

All's Well That Ends Well

As You Like It

Comedy of Errors

Love's Labour's Lost

Measure for Measure

Merchant of Venice

Merry Wives of Windsor

Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado about Nothing

Taming of the Shrew

Tempest

Twelfth Night

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Winter's Tale

HISTORIES

Henry IV, Part I

Henry IV, Part II

Henry V

Henry VI, Part I

Henry VI, Part II

Henry VI, Part III

Henry VIII

King John

Pericles

Richard II

Richard III

TRAGEDIES

Antony and Cleopatra

Coriolanus

Cymbeline

Julius Caesar

King Lear

Macbeth

Othello

Romeo and Juliet

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Troilus and Cressida