Outline of William Shakespeare
{{short description|Overview of and topical guide to the life and legacy of William Shakespeare}}
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and legacy of William Shakespeare, an English poet, playwright, and actor who lived during the 17th century. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
Works
- Shakespeare bibliography
- Chronology of Shakespeare's plays
- William Shakespeare's collaborations
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Early texts of Shakespeare's works
- Shakespeare's late romances
- Shakespeare plays in quarto
- Shakespearean problem play
- Translations of works by William Shakespeare
- Shakespearean characters
- List of Shakespearean characters (A–K)
- List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z)
- List of historical figures dramatised by Shakespeare
- Women in Shakespeare's works
= Plays =
{{main|Shakespeare's plays}}
== Tragedies ==
{{main|Shakespearean tragedy}}
== Comedies ==
{{main|Shakespearean comedy}}
- All's Well That Ends Well
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Cymbeline
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
- The Winter's Tale
== Histories ==
= Poetry =
- Shakespeare's sonnets – 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 • 53 • 54 • 55 • 56 • 57 • 58 • 59 • 60 • 61 • 62 • 63 • 64 • 65 • 66 • 67 • 68 • 69 • 70 • 71 • 72 • 73 • 74 • 75 • 76 • 77 • 78 • 79 • 80 • 81 • 82 • 83 • 84 • 85 • 86 • 87 • 88 • 89 • 90 • 91 • 92 • 93 • 94 • 95 • 96 • 97 • 98 • 99 • 100 • 101 • 102 • 103 • 104 • 105 • 106 • 107 • 108 • 109 • 110 • 111 • 112 • 113 • 114 • 115 • 116 • 117 • 118 • 119 • 120 • 121 • 122 • 123 • 124 • 125 • 126 • 127 • 128 • 129 • 130 • 131 • 132 • 133 • 134 • 135 • 136 • 137 • 138 • 139 • 140 • 141 • 142 • 143 • 144 • 145 • 146 • 147 • 148 • 149 • 150 • 151 • 152 • 153 • 154
- A Lover's Complaint
- Venus and Adonis
- The Rape of Lucrece
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- The Passionate Pilgrim
Apocrypha
{{main|Shakespeare apocrypha}}
= Plays =
- Sir Thomas More
- The History of Cardenio (lost)
- Love's Labour's Won (lost)
- The Birth of Merlin
- Locrine
- The London Prodigal
- The Puritan
- The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- Double Falsehood
- Thomas of Woodstock
- Sir John Oldcastle
- Thomas Lord Cromwell
- A Yorkshire Tragedy
- Fair Em
- Mucedorus
- The Merry Devil of Edmonton
- Arden of Faversham
- Edmund Ironside
- Vortigern and Rowena
- Ireland Shakespeare forgeries
= Poetry =
Analyses
Life
{{main|Shakespeare's life}}
- Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)
- Shakespeare's Birthplace
- Shakespeare garden
- Shakespeare's Globe
- Shakespeare's handwriting
- Shakespeare in performance
- Portraits of Shakespeare
- Religious views of William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare's reputation
- Sexuality of William Shakespeare
- Spelling of Shakespeare's name
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Shakespeare's will
= Associated people =
- Robert Armin
- Matteo Bandello
- Cuthbert Burbage
- Richard Burbage
- Robert Chester (poet)
- Henry Condell
- The Dark Lady
- Leonard Digges (writer)
- Fair Youth
- Richard Field (printer)
- John Fletcher (playwright)
- Archibald Dennis Flower
- Samuel Gilburne
- John Heminges
- Ben Jonson
- William Kempe
- Edward Knight (King's Men)
- Emilia Lanier
- John Manningham
- Mr W.H.
- Augustine Phillips
- Rival Poet
- Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
- Nahum Tate
- Anne Whateley
- George Wilkins
- Henry Willobie
Legacy
Shakespeare's influence – in addition to his works, Shakespeare's legacy includes the ongoing performance of his plays, and his influence upon culture and the arts, extending from theatre and literature to present-day movies and the English language itself.
= Memorials and monuments =
= Shakespearean phrases =
- Phrases from Hamlet in common English
- "All that glitters is not gold"
- "All the world's a stage"
- "All's Well That Ends Well"
- "Band of brothers"
- "Beast with two backs"
- "Between you and I"
- "Brave new world"
- "By the pricking of my thumbs"
- "The dogs of war"
- "Et tu, Brute?"
- "Even a worm will turn"
- "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
- "Hoist with his own petard"
- "Honorificabilitudinitatibus"
- "Ides of March"
- "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
- "Let's kill all the lawyers"
- "Mortal coil"
- "Much Ado About Nothing"
- "Once more unto the breach"
- "The quality of mercy"
- "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
- "Salad days"
- "Star-crossed"
- "There's the rub"
- "Thy name is"
- "To be, or not to be"
- "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"
- "What a piece of work is a man"
- "What's past is prologue"
- "Winter of Discontent"
= Shakespearean theatre =
- Shakespeare festivals
- Shakespeare in the Park festivals
- List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations
- BBC Television Shakespeare
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
- ShakespeaRe-Told
- Shakespearean theatres
- Shakespeare's Globe Centres
- :Category:Shakespearean theatre companies
- Shakespeare Theatre Association
= Works about Shakespeare =
- Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
- Complete Works
- Timeline of Shakespeare criticism
- The Herbal Bed
- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
- Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life
- The Quest for Shakespeare
- Shakespeare
- Shakespeare's Kings
- Shakespeare's Politics
- Shakespeare: The World as Stage
- William Shakespeare
== Fictional works about Shakespeare ==
See also
External links
{{Sister project links|William Shakespeare}}
- [https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/ Internet Shakespeare Editions], University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- [https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/all-works/ "All Shakespeare's works"], Folger Shakespeare Library
- [https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/ Open Source Shakespeare] complete works, with search engine and concordance
- [http://contentdm.lib.miamioh.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/wshakespeare First Four Folios] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412051544/http://contentdm.lib.miamioh.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/wshakespeare |date=12 April 2016 }} at Miami University Library, digital collection
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091119053011/http://www.quartos.org/ The Shakespeare Quartos Archive]
- [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/william-shakespeare Shakespeare's sonnets, poems, and texts] at Poets.org
- [http://www.shakespeareswords.com/ Shakespeare's Words] the online version of the best-selling glossary and language companion
- [http://shakespearestudyguide.com/Shake2/ShakespeareMusic.html Shakespeare and Music] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119025026/http://www.shakespearestudyguide.com/Shake2/ShakespeareMusic.html |date=19 November 2012 }}
- [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/dol/images/examples/pdfs/shakespeare.pdf Shakespeare's Will] from The National Archives
- {{ChoralWiki|description=Works by William Shakespeare set to music: free scores}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110528205339/http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/home.html The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust]
- {{IMDb name|636|William Shakespeare}}
- {{Gutenberg author | id=65| name=William Shakespeare}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=William Shakespeare |dname=William Shakespeare}}
- {{Librivox author |id=37 |title=William Shakespeare}}
- [https://shakespeareintune.com/ Discovering Literature: Shakespeare] at the British Library
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