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Romantic Plays

Characteristics

Shakespeare & His Plays

Shakespeare's Plays

The Shakespeare tragedies share a number

of common features:

Tragedies

Romantic Plays

Comedies

History Plays

Tragedies

1599 - 1608

•The fatal flaw

•The bigger they are, the

harder they fall

•External pressures

before 1594

Pericles

Taming of the Shrew

Richard III

General

Comedy of Errors

Henry VI

part 1,2,3

Titus Andronicus

1608 - 1613

Love's Labour's Lost

before 1594

Two Gentlemen of Verona

before 1594

The Tempest

Romeo and Juliet

King John

before 1594

1599 - 1608

Richard II

The Two Noble Kinsmen

The Winter's Tale

Merchant of Venice

Julius Caesar

Midsummer Night's Dream

Hamlet

Cymbeline

Henry IV

part 1 & 2

Henry V

Othello

As You Like It

A redemptive plotline with a happy ending involving the re-uniting of separated family members

King Lear

Timon of Athens

Much Ado About Nothing

Macbeth

Merry Wives of Windson

Antony and Cleopatra

1608 - 1613

1599 - 1608

Coriolanus

Shakespeare wrote 10 tragedies:

Antony and Cleopatra

Coriolanus

Hamlet

Julius Caesar

King Lear

Macbeth

Othello

Romeo and Juliet

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Magic and other fantastical elements

Henry VIII

Measure for Measure

Troilus and Cressida

Twelfth Night

The Revenge Tragedy:

Titus Andronicus

A mixture of "civilized" and "pastoral" scenes (e.g. the gentry and island residents in The Tempest)

All's Well That Ends Well

The Tempest

1608 - 1613

  • re-uniting of separated family members

  • Happy ending

  • mixture of "civilized" and "pastoral" scenes

The Tempest

The Winter's Tale

Cymbeline

  • Split family

enemies

  • Marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda

  • The gentry and island residence

The Tempest

seems to be the hero

magican duke

Prospero

banishment

daughter

enemies

Antonio

son

Sebastian

fall in love

Ferdinand

Miranda

helps him to banish Prospero

has never seen other men besides her father, Ariel or Caliban

Alonso Ferdinand

History Plays

Shakespeare's Authenticity

  • contain comedy, tragedy and everything in between
  • English history from 12th - 16th century
  • 1399-1485 in particular
  • Hundred Years War with France
  • The Wars of Roses between York & Lancaster
  • named after & focuses on the reigning monarch

about Elizabethan & Jacobean society

politics, entertainment & social situation of Shakespeare's time

Othello

Structure

There are enough conspiracy theories out there regarding the works of Shakespeare (or attributed to Shakespeare, if you prefer) that entire careers have been built upon positing alternate candidates for the true authorship of the works. Whether or not the claim of Shakespeare is legitimate, the burden of proof would seem to lie on those who wish to discredit the Bard. Other notable candidates have included William Stanley, Earl of Derby; Ben Jonson; Thomas Middleton; Sir Walter Raleigh (with or without collaboration by Francis Bacon); Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; and even Queen Elizabeth I herself. There have been dozens of other such nominations since the Bard's death, and none have yet presented proof enough to discredit the man from Stratford.

Series 1 (1589-93)

• Written around 1603

• One of the most famous tragedies

• Based on the Italian short story by Cinthio

around 1565 “Un Capitano Maro” → (A Moorish

Captain)

The Controversy Continues...

  • Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 & 3
  • Richard III

Series 2 (1595-99)

Annonymous

fall of the Lancaster dynasty

(1422-1485)

  • Richard II
  • Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2
  • Henry V

rise of the Lancastrians

(1398-1420)

Central Characters

•Othello

•His wife Desdemona

•His lieutenant Casio

•His trusted ensign Iago

Plot

Cassio

Themes

Othello

Desdemona

•Racism

•Love

•Jealousy

•Betrayal

Iago

Father of Desdemona

The Reduced Shakespeare Company Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)

Comedies

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

Romeo & Juliet

characteristics

Main:

- about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families

- written between 1591 and 1596

  • The Merchant of Venice
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Much Ado about Nothing

- among Shakespeare's most popular plays

- characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers

- belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity

- its plot is based on an Italian tale, translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562

  • full of fun, irony and dazzling word plays
  • lots of disguising and mistaken identities
  • very convoluted plots ->difficult to follow
  • lots of intrigues and personal tragedies
  • very contrived endings
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