Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 )

… if you consider the Historical Playes of Shakespeare, they are rather so many Chronicles of Kings, or the business many times of thirty or forty years, crampt into a representation of two hours and a half, which is not to imitate or paint Nature, but rather to draw her in miniature, to take her in little ; to look upon her through the wrong end of a Perspective, and receive her Images not onely much less, but infinitely more imperfect then the life: this instead of making a Play delightful, renders it ridiculous.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

H. C. Selous ' illustration of Talbot engaging in battle in Act 4, Scene 6 ; from The Plays of William Shakespeare: The Historical Plays, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke ( 1830 )

Henry Courtney Selous | H. C. Selous ' illustration of the Cade Rebellion in Act 4, Scene 2 ; from The Plays of William Shakespeare: The Historical Plays, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke ( 1830 )

H. C. Selous ' illustration of the father and son tragedy in Act 2, Scene 5 ; from The Plays of William Shakespeare: The Historical Plays, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke ( 1830 )

* Zachary Grey-Critical, Historical, and Explanatory Notes on Shakespeare

* Eight portrait busts on the facade of the Brooklyn Historical Society including Michelangelo, Beethoven, Columbus, Franklin, Gutenberg, Shakespeare, a Norseman, and a Native American.

Petre is associated with local organizations such as the Brentwood Arts Council ; Brentwood Shakespeare Company ; Ingatestone and Fryerning Horticultural Society, Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Ingatestone, Brentwood Theatre ; Ingatestone and Fryerning Angling Club ; CAB ( Brentwood ) Appeal Fund ; Ingatestone and Fryerning Historical and Archeological Society ; and patron of the Billericay based Hamelin Trust ; and President of Essex County Scouts, Stock and Buttsbury Heritage Society and St John Ambulance Essex.

William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems.

This term was first used in regard to these works in Edward Dowden's Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art ( 1875 ).

John F. Danby, in his Shakespeare ’ s Doctrine of Nature – A Study of King Lear ( 1949 ), argues that Lear dramatises, among other things, the current meanings of " Nature.

William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, Volume 1 ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930 )

* Chambers, E. K. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems.

Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study of Finnegans Wake.

The character of the duchess recalls the Victorian poet and essayist Algernon Charles Swinburne's comment in A Study of Shakespeare that in tragedies such as King Lear Shakespeare had shown such a bleak world as a foil or backdrop for virtuous heroines such as Ophelia and Imogen, so that their characterisation would not seem too incredible.

* Hamlet and Orestes: A Study in Traditional Types ( 1914 ) Annual Shakespeare Lecture 1914

* The Olive and the Sword: a Study of England's Shakespeare ( 1944 )

" Free Study Guides for Shakespeare and Other Authors.

" Free Study Guides for Shakespeare and Other Authors.

* How to Read a Shakespeare Play, part of the How to Study Literature series ( Wiley-Blackwell, 2006 )

* The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the age of Shakespeare, Donne & Milton ( 1942 )

Among his more successful productions were some Shakespeare plays, including: Hamlet, Henry VIII, and Macbeth, as well as non-Shakespeare plays such as Sir Samuel Tuke's The Tragedy of Five Hours and John Dryden's comedy Sir Martin Marall.

* 1977 Othello A Symphonic Portrait for Symphonic Band in Five Scenes ( after William Shakespeare )

Five years later, the Oregon Shakespearean Festival was renamed the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

# Five Great Tragedies by William Shakespeare

There he also created the role of Bob, in Dion Boucicault's Old Heads and Young Hearts, and played several other memorable roles, including, Slowboy in Cricket on the Hearth, Dan in John Bull, MacDunnum of Dunnum in A School for Scheming, Scrub in The Beaux ' Stratagem and Golightly in Lend Me Five Shillings, and several Shakespeare roles.

" Shakespeare Plays on Renaissance Stages ".

Category: Plays and musicals based on works by William Shakespeare

The work received its initial readings from the Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in 2006, and was presented in workshop form in the inaugural season of the Fordham University Lincoln Center Alumni Company in 2008.

* Taylor, Gary ( b ) Shakespeare Plays on Renaissance Stages in Wells and Stanton pp. 1 – 20.

) Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays ( The RSC Shakespeare ; London: Macmillan, 2008 )

Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare ( Volume 6 ): Other ' Classical ' Plays ( Columbia: Columbia University Press, 1966 )

A Time Analysis of the Plots of Shakespeare ’ s Plays ( London: New Shakespeare Society, 1879 )

Henry Courtney Selous | H. C. Selous ' illustration of Sly and the Hostess in the Induction ; from The Plays of William Shakespeare: The Comedies, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke ( 1830 )

The Sources of Shakespeare ’ s Plays ( London: Routledge, 1977 ; rpt 2005 )

One of the most accessible versions was the 1978 television production by the BBC of the play, shown as part of " The Shakespeare Plays " ( a several years-long project to put all of Shakespeare's plays on tape ).

However a decade was to pass before her book The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded ( 1857 ) was to see print.

He acted at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1959 and was with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1962 Arts Theatre Experimental season ( Nil Carborundum and Afore Night Come ) 1964 ' Dirty Plays ' season Night Come, Victor and the premiere productions of The Marat Sade and the revival of Afore Night Come ), in 1965 at Stratford where he appeared in The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Jew of Malta, Love's Labour's Lost, and Peter Hall's outstanding production of The Government Inspector at the Aldwych Theatre with Paul Scofield, Eric Porter, Donald Burton, Stanley Lebor, Bruce Condell, John Corvin and Tim Wylton among others.

Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare ( Volume 3 ): Early English History Plays ( Columbia: Columbia University Press, 1960 )

" Getting Loose in the Henry VI Plays ", Shakespeare Quarterly, 35: 4 ( Winter, 1984 ), 392 – 406

A Time Analysis of the Plots of Shakespeare ’ s Plays ( London: New Shakspere Society, 1879 )

Samuel Johnson, writing in his 1765 edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, pre-empted the debate and argued that the plays were written in sequence ; " It is apparent that Henry VI begins where the former ends, and continues the series of transactions, of which it presupposes the first part already written.

Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare ( Volume 3 ): Early English History Plays ( Columbia: Columbia University Press, 1960 )

" Getting Loose in the Henry VI Plays ", Shakespeare Quarterly, 35: 4 ( Winter, 1984 ), 392 – 406