Shakespeare

98 pages

A Lovers' Complaint
A LOVER'S COMPLAINT FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this double…
A Midsommer Nights Dreame
Actus primus. Enter Theseus, Hippolita, with others. Theseus.
All's Well That Ends Well
*All's Well That Ends Well* is a Shakespeare comedy (likely written c. 1604–05), belonging to the tradition of "problem plays" that mix…
All's Well, that Ends Well
Actus primus. Scoena Prima. Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.
Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare's *Antony and Cleopatra* (c. 1606) is a tragedy in the English Renaissance tradition, dramatizing the historical love affair…
As You Like It
*As You Like It* is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, written around 1599, working squarely within the pastoral tradition — a genre…
As you Like it
Actus primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Orlando and Adam.
Comedy of Errors
*The Comedy of Errors* is an early Shakespearean farce — his shortest play — belonging to the classical tradition of mistaken-identity…
Coriolanus
*Coriolanus* is a late tragedy by William Shakespeare, set in ancient Rome, depicting the rise and fall of the proud Roman general Caius…
Cymbeline
First Folio: Introduction
This is the prefatory matter from the First Folio (1623), the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, published posthumously by his…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare Index
| | Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T.F. Thiselton Dyer [1883] | This is a comprehensive studies of the folklore aspects of Shakespeare…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter I. Fairies
This is a chapter from T.F. Thiselton Dyer's 1883 scholarly reference work *Folk-lore of Shakespeare*, which catalogs the popular…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter II. Witches
This is a chapter from a late Victorian antiquarian study cataloguing the folkloric and superstitious beliefs embedded in Shakespeare's…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter III. Ghosts
Few subjects have, from time immemorial, possessed a wider interest than ghosts, and the superstitions associated with them in this and…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter IV. Demonology and Devi...
The state of popular feeling in past centuries with regard to the active agency of devils has been well represented by Reginald Scot, who…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter IX. Insects and Reptiles
*Folk-lore of Shakespeare* (1883) is a scholarly reference work by T.F. Thiselton Dyer that catalogs the popular superstitions, folk…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter V. Natural Phenomena
This is a work of Victorian literary scholarship — an annotated catalogue of folklore and popular superstition as it appears throughout…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter VI. Birds
Barnacle-Goose—Blackbird—Buzzard—Chaffinch—Chough—Cock—Cormorant Crow—Cuckoo—Domestic…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter VII. Animals
*Folk-lore of Shakespeare* (1883) by T.F. Thiselton Dyer is a work of Victorian literary scholarship cataloguing the superstitions, folk…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter VIII. Plants
*Folk-lore of Shakespeare* (1883) by T.F. Thiselton Dyer is a Victorian scholarly reference work in the tradition of literary…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter X. Folk Medicine
Without discussing the extent of Shakespeare's technical medical knowledge, the following pages will suffice to show that he was fully…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XI. Customs Connected w...
*Folk-lore of Shakespeare* (1883) by T.F. Thiselton Dyer is a work of Victorian folkloristics and literary scholarship that catalogs the…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XII. Birth and Baptism
As every period of human life has its peculiar rites and ceremonies, its customs and superstitions, so has that ever all-eventful hour…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XIII. Marriage
This is a chapter from T.F. Thiselton Dyer's 1883 antiquarian study *Folk-lore of Shakespeare*, which uses Shakespeare's plays as…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XIV. Death and Burial
This is a chapter from T.F. Thiselton Dyer's 1883 scholarly compendium cataloging the folk beliefs and superstitions embedded in…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XIX. Proverbs
*Folk-lore of Shakespeare* (1883) by T.F. Thiselton Dyer is a reference work in the Victorian tradition of literary antiquarianism…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XV. Rings and Precious ...
From a very early period, rings and precious stones have held a prominent place in the traditionary lore, customs, and superstitions of…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XVI. Sports and Pastimes
*Folk-lore of Shakespeare* (1883) by T.F. Thiselton Dyer is a Victorian scholarly reference work that catalogs the sports, games, and…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XVII. Dances
This is a chapter on dances from T.F. Thiselton Dyer's *Folk-lore of Shakespeare* (1883), a work of Victorian literary scholarship…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XVIII. Punishments
"Folk-lore of Shakespeare" (1883) by T.F. Thiselton Dyer is a Victorian scholarly reference work that catalogs Shakespeare's incidental…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XX. Human Body
*Folk-lore of Shakespeare* (1883) by T.F. Thiselton Dyer is a scholarly reference work in the Victorian antiquarian tradition, cataloguing…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XXI. Fishes
Although it has been suggested that Shakespeare found but little recreation in fishing, 1* rather considering, as he makes Ursula say in…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XXII. Sundry Superstitions
This is an 1883 scholarly reference work cataloguing the folk beliefs, superstitions, and popular customs that Shakespeare wove into his…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Chapter XXIII. Miscellaneous Cu...
*Folk-lore of Shakespeare* (1883) is a Victorian antiquarian reference work that systematically catalogs the historical customs, social…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Contents
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Errata
page 30: 'allasion'->'allusion' page 178: 'familar'->'familiar' page 220: 'oonshine'->'moonshine' page 230: 'uuderneath'->'underneath' page…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Index
This is a scholarly reference work from 1883 — specifically, an index excerpt from T.F. Thiselton Dyer's *Folk-lore of Shakespeare* —…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Page Index
This is a page index for a book titled *Folk-lore of Shakespeare*, spanning roughly 526 pages organized into numbered sections. The…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Preface
It would be difficult to overestimate the value which must be attached to the plays of Shakespeare in connection with the social life of…
Folk-lore of Shakespeare: Title Page
Hamlet
This is Shakespeare's *Hamlet*, a canonical English Renaissance tragedy (c. 1600–1601) belonging to the revenge tragedy tradition. The play…
Julius Caeser
*Julius Caesar* is a tragedy by William Shakespeare (c. 1599), belonging to the tradition of Roman history plays drawn from Plutarch's…
King Henry the Eighth
King Henry the Fifth
King Henry the Fourth, Part I
*1 Henry IV* is a history play by William Shakespeare, part of his second tetralogy of English history plays, dramatizing events from the…
King Henry the Fourth, Part II
King Henry the Sixth, Part I
King Henry the Sixth, Part II
This is the opening act of Shakespeare's history play *2 Henry VI*, part of his first tetralogy dramatizing the Wars of the Roses, written…
King Henry the Sixth, Part III
This is the opening scene of Shakespeare's *3 Henry VI*, a history play dramatizing the Wars of the Roses, the dynastic conflict between…

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