Why this topic, why these plays
The plays gathered under "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616" share a recurring thematic preoccupation that, across 13 different scripts in our archive, has produced a remarkable variety of theatrical solutions. Reading them in proximity to one another is one of the more useful comparative exercises a student of dramatic writing can do, because the contrasts in tone, structure, and resolution show how much choice a playwright really has, even when the underlying subject is the same. The list below collects the works in our library that catalogue indexers identified with this subject; in some cases the connection is overt and in others oblique, but in every case the thematic affinity is real and worth pursuing.
All plays on this topic (13)
- Shakspeare's Mental Photographs — by Anonymous
- The Dark Lady of the Sonnets — by Bernard Shaw
- Tales from Shakespeare — by Charles Lamb
- The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded — by Delia Salter Bacon
- Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare — by E. (Edith) Nesbit
- Shakspere and Montaigne An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency of 'Hamlet' from Allusions in Contemporary Works — by Jacob Feis
- The Shakespeare Story-Book — by Mary Macleod
- Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk — by Walter Savage Landor
- Characters of Shakespeare's Plays — by William Hazlitt
- The London Prodigal — by William Shakespeare
- The Puritan Widow — by William Shakespeare
- A Yorkshire Tragedy — by William Shakespeare
- The Merry Devil of Edmonton — by William Shakespeare