Locations Of Shakespeare's Plays
This is a list of the settings of Shakespeare's plays. Included are the settings of 38 plays, being the 36 plays contained in the First Folio, and ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre'' and ''The Two Noble Kinsmen''. Places mentioned in William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's text are not listed unless he explicitly set at least one scene there, even where that place is important to the plot such as Syracuse, Sicily, Syracuse in ''The Comedy of Errors'' or Milan in ''The Tempest''. Similarly, the place where an historical or mythical event depicted by Shakespeare is supposed to have happened is not listed unless Shakespeare mentions the setting in the play's text. For example, some editors have placed act 3 scene 2 of ''Julius Caesar (play), Julius Caesar'' at "the Roman Forum, Forum" but there is no listing for the Forum on this page because Shakespeare's text does not do so. Contents: #A, A , #B, B , #C, C , #D, D , #E, E , #F, F , #G, G , #H, H , #I, I , #J, J , #K, K , #L, L , #M, ...
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Shakespeare's Plays
Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy, Shakespearean history, history, Shakespearean comedy, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate. Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as among the greatest in the English language and are continually performed around the world. The plays have been translated into every major Modern language, living language. Many of his plays appeared in print as a series of Folios and Quartos (Shakespeare), quartos, but approximately half of them remained unpublished until 1623, when the posthumous First Folio was published. The traditional division of his plays into tragedies, comedies, and histories follows the categories used in the First Folio. However, modern criticism has labelled some of these plays "Shakespearean problem play, problem plays" that elude ...
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