Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword by Harry Keyishian 1 Introduction 3 1. Actors, Plays, and Playhouses 5 2. The Taming of the Shrew 17 3. A Midsummer Night's Dream 23 4. Hamlet 31 5. Macbeth 43 6. The Comedy of Errors 53 7. The Two Gentlemen of Verona 57 8.

Twelfth Night 60 9. Romeo and Juliet 67 10. Shakespeare's Warrior Plays 75 11. Troilus and Cressida 80 12. Julius Caesar 84 13. Antony and Cleopatra 89 14. Much Ado About Nothing 93 15. Othello 99 16.

The Merchant of Venice 107 17. The Tempest 118 18. As You Like It 123 19. Coriolanus 126 20. Measure for Measure 129 21. The Chronicle Plays 133 22. Richard II 137 23. Henry IV, Part 1 143 24.

Henry IV, Part 2 150 25. The Merry Wives of Windsor 154 26. Henry V 157 27. Henry VI, Part 1 162 28. Henry VI, Part 2 168 29. Henry VI, Part 3 172 30. Richard III 175 31. Titus Andronicus 180 32.

Love's Labour's Lost 184 33. King Lear 188 34. Timon of Athens 201 35. Cymbeline 205 36. Henry VIII 208 37. The Two Noble Kinsmen 215 38. The Winter's Tale 220 39. All's Well That Ends Well 228 40.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre 230 41. King John 234 Bibliography 237 Index 239.