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The Comedy of Errors |
Troilus and Cressida | Henry IV, part 1 | Antony and Cleopatra |
| The Taming of the Shrew | All's Well That Ends Well | Henry IV, part 2 | Coliolanus |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Measure for Measure | Henry V | Timon of Athens |
| Love's Labor's Lost | Henry VI, part 1 | Henry VIII | Pericles |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Henry VI, part 2 | Titus Andronicus | Cymbeline |
| The Merchant of Venice | Henry VI, part 3 | Romeo and Juliet | The Winter's Tale |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | Richard III | Julius Caesar | The Tempest |
| Much Ado About Nothing | King John | Hamlet | The Two Noble Kinsman |
| As You Like It | Richard II | Othello | The Sonnets |
| Twelfth Night | King Lear | Macbeth |
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| The Taming of the Shrew | ||
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| Contradicting Shakespeare | A research paper surveying The Taming of the Shrew feminist criticism over the past twenty five years. | |
| The Merchant of Venice | ||
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| Cohen Criticism | Cohen, D.M. "The Jew and Shylock" Shakespeare Quarterly. Volume 31, No. 1. Spring 1980. | |
| Cooper Criticism | Cooper, John R. "Shylock's Humanity" Shakespeare Quarterly | |
| Ajzenstat Criticism | Ajzenstat, Samuel. "Contract in The Merchant of Venice." Philosophy and Literature. Volume 21, Number 2. Oct 1997 | |
| Twelfth Night | ||
| A collection of ideas and concepts for directing a production of Twelfth Night | ||
| Measure for Measure | ||
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| The influence of Basilikon Doron | An essay on the parallels between Basilikon Doron and Measure for Measure | |
| Themes in Measure for Measure | An essay discussing major themes in Measure for Measure | |
| Historical Overview | An introduction and historical overview to the play | |
| Sources | Critical resources for Measure for Measure | |
| Richard III | ||
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| Richard III Opening Monologue | Notes and glosses on Richard III famous monologue | |
| Sources for Richard III | Critical resources for Richard III | |
| Textual Parallels | Textual Parallels between Richard III and Dr. Faustus | |
| Romeo and Juliet | ||
| An essay exploring fate versus responsibility in Romeo and Juliet | ||
| Hamlet | ||
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| Terry Criticism | Terry, Reta A. ""Vows to the Blackest Devil": Hamlet and the Evolving Code of Honor in Early Modern England. Renaissance Quarterly, Vol 52, No. 4 (Winter 1999). | |
| Low Criticism | Low, Anthony "Hamlet and the Ghost of Purgatory: Intimations of Killing the Father." English Literary Renaissance Vol 29, No 3. Autumn 1999. | |
| Mallin Criticism |
Mallin, Eric S. ""You Kilt my Foddah": or Arnold, Prince of Denmark." Shakespeare Quarterly. Vol 50, No. 2. Summer 1999 |
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| Greenblatt
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Greenblatt, Stephen. "Remember Me" from Shakespeare in Purgatory | |
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| Themes in Antony and Cleopatra | Discussion of themes and imagery in Antony and Cleopatra | |
| Henry V | ||
| Fernie, Ewan. "Action! Henry V" | ||
| Greenblatt Criticism | Greenblatt, Stephen. "Invisible Bullets" from Shakespearean Negotiations | |
| Norman Rabkin "Either/Or: Responding to Henry V" from Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning | ||
| Macbeth |
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| Kastan Criticism | Kastan, D.S. "Macbeth and the "Name of the King"" from Shakespeare after Theory | |
| Goldberg Criticism | Goldberg, Jonathan. "Speculations: Macbeth and Source" from Post-Structuralist Readings of English Poetry | |
| Mallin, Eric S. "Emulous Factions and the Collapse of Chivalry" from Representations 29 Winter 1990 | ||
| Cook, Carol. "Unbodied Figures of Desire" from Theatre Journal 38 (1986) | ||
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| Hero or Villain? | An essay comparing the tragic natures of King Lear and Othello | |
| Grady, Hugh. "Reification and the Plebeian in King Lear" from Shakespeare's Universal Wolf | ||
| Kott, Jan. "King Lear or Endgame" from Shakespeare Our Contemporary | ||
| Kronenfeld,Judy: "'So Distribution should Undo
Excess, and Each Man have Enough': Shakespeare's King Lear-Anabaptist
Egalitarianism, Anglican Charity, Both, Neither?" ELH 59 (1992) 755-84. |
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| Fernie, Hugh. "The Last Act: Presentism, Spirituality, and the Politics of Hamlet" from Spiritual Shakespeares | ||
| Cavell Criticism | Cavell, Stanley. "The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear" from Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare | |
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