Outline of William Shakespeare
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and legacy of William Shakespeare, an English poet, playwright, and actor who lived during the 17th century. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Works
- Shakespeare bibliography
- Chronology of Shakespeare's plays
- William Shakespeare's collaborations
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Early texts of Shakespeare's works
- Shakespeare's late romances
- Shakespeare plays in quarto
- Shakespearean problem play
- Translations of works by William Shakespeare
- Shakespearean characters
Plays
Tragedies
Comedies
- All's Well That Ends Well
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Cymbeline
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
- The Winter's Tale
Histories
Poetry
- Shakespeare's sonnets – 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 • 53 • 54 • 55 • 56 • 57 • 58 • 59 • 60 • 61 • 62 • 63 • 64 • 65 • 66 • 67 • 68 • 69 • 70 • 71 • 72 • 73 • 74 • 75 • 76 • 77 • 78 • 79 • 80 • 81 • 82 • 83 • 84 • 85 • 86 • 87 • 88 • 89 • 90 • 91 • 92 • 93 • 94 • 95 • 96 • 97 • 98 • 99 • 100 • 101 • 102 • 103 • 104 • 105 • 106 • 107 • 108 • 109 • 110 • 111 • 112 • 113 • 114 • 115 • 116 • 117 • 118 • 119 • 120 • 121 • 122 • 123 • 124 • 125 • 126 • 127 • 128 • 129 • 130 • 131 • 132 • 133 • 134 • 135 • 136 • 137 • 138 • 139 • 140 • 141 • 142 • 143 • 144 • 145 • 146 • 147 • 148 • 149 • 150 • 151 • 152 • 153 • 154
- A Lover's Complaint
- Venus and Adonis
- The Rape of Lucrece
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- The Passionate Pilgrim
Apocrypha
Plays
- Sir Thomas More
- The History of Cardenio (lost)
- Love's Labour's Won (lost)
- The Birth of Merlin
- Locrine
- The London Prodigal
- The Puritan
- The Second Maiden's Tragedy
- Double Falsehood
- Thomas of Woodstock
- Sir John Oldcastle
- Thomas Lord Cromwell
- A Yorkshire Tragedy
- Fair Em
- Mucedorus
- The Merry Devil of Edmonton
- Arden of Faversham
- Edmund Ironside
- Vortigern and Rowena
- Ireland Shakespeare forgeries
Poetry
Analyses
Life
- Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)
- Shakespeare's Birthplace
- Shakespeare garden
- Shakespeare's Globe
- Shakespeare's handwriting
- Shakespeare in performance
- Portraits of Shakespeare
- Religious views of William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare's reputation
- Sexuality of William Shakespeare
- Spelling of Shakespeare's name
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Shakespeare's will
Associated people
- Robert Armin
- Matteo Bandello
- Cuthbert Burbage
- Richard Burbage
- Robert Chester (poet)
- Henry Condell
- The Dark Lady
- Leonard Digges (writer)
- Fair Youth
- Richard Field (printer)
- John Fletcher (playwright)
- Archibald Dennis Flower
- Samuel Gilburne
- John Heminges
- Ben Jonson
- William Kempe
- Edward Knight (King's Men)
- Emilia Lanier
- John Manningham
- Mr W.H.
- Augustine Phillips
- Rival Poet
- John Robinson (17th century)
- Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
- Nahum Tate
- Anne Whateley
- George Wilkins
- Henry Willobie
Legacy
Shakespeare's influence – in addition to his works, Shakespeare's legacy includes the ongoing performance of his plays, and his influence upon culture and the arts, extending from theatre and literature to present-day movies and the English language itself.
- Category:Adaptations of works by William Shakespeare
- List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases
- Cultural references to Hamlet
- Cultural references to Ophelia
- Cultural references to Othello
Memorials and monuments
Shakespearean phrases
- Phrases from Hamlet in common English
- "All that glitters is not gold"
- "All the world's a stage"
- "All's Well That Ends Well"
- "Band of brothers"
- "Beast with two backs"
- "Between you and I"
- "Brave new world"
- "By the pricking of my thumbs"
- "The dogs of war"
- "Et tu, Brute?"
- "Even a worm will turn"
- "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
- "Hoist with his own petard"
- "Honorificabilitudinitatibus"
- "Ides of March"
- "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
- "Let's kill all the lawyers"
- "Mortal coil"
- "Much Ado About Nothing"
- "Once more unto the breach"
- "The quality of mercy"
- "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
- "Salad days"
- "Star-crossed"
- "There's the rub"
- "Thy name is"
- "To be, or not to be"
- "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"
- "What a piece of work is a man"
- "What's past is prologue"
- "Winter of Discontent"
Shakespearean theatre
- Shakespeare festivals
- List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations
- ShakespeaRe-Told
- Shakespearean theatres
- Category:Shakespearean theatre companies
- Shakespeare Theatre Association
Works about Shakespeare
- Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
- Complete Works
- Timeline of Shakespeare criticism
- The Herbal Bed
- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
- Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life
- The Quest for Shakespeare
- Shakespeare
- Shakespeare's Kings
- Shakespeare's Politics
- Shakespeare: The World as Stage
- William Shakespeare
Fictional works about Shakespeare
External links
- Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- "All Shakespeare's works", Folger Shakespeare Library
- Open Source Shakespeare complete works, with search engine and concordance
- First Four Folios Archived 12 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine at Miami University Library, digital collection
- The Shakespeare Quartos Archive
- Shakespeare's sonnets, poems, and texts at Poets.org
- Shakespeare's Words the online version of the best-selling glossary and language companion
- Shakespeare and Music
- Shakespeare's Will from The National Archives
- Works by William Shakespeare set to music: free scores in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- William Shakespeare at IMDb
- Works by William Shakespeare at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about William Shakespeare at Internet Archive
- Works by William Shakespeare at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Discovering Literature: Shakespeare at the British Library
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