Shakespeare's plays
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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 tragedy
Sir John Gilbert's 1849 painting: The Plays of Shakespeare, containing scenes and characters from several of William Shakespeare's plays
First edition of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, printed 1577
The modern reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, in London
Shakespearean problem play
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In Shakespeare studies, the problem plays are plays written by William Shakespeare that are characterised by their complex and ambiguous tone, which shifts violently between more straightforward comic
Shakespeare's plays
…into tragedies, comedies, and histories follows the categories used in the First Folio. However, modern criticism has labelled some of these plays "problem plays" that elude easy categorisation, or perhaps purposely break generic conventions, and has introduced the term romances for what scholars believe to be…
A CATALOGVE of the ſeuerall Comedies, Hiſtories, and Tragedies contained in this Volume. From the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, this table of contents divides the plays into groups of Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.
A Scene from Troilus and Cressida Angelica Kauffmann
William Hunt Claudio and Isabella Shakespeare Measure for Measure
Helena and the Countess