Macbeth on the Estate (TV adapation) 246
Macbeth paintings (Fuseli) 255
Machiavelli, Niccolò, The Prince 72
magic 48, 305, 310, 311, 315–17
male friendship 182, 186
Mandela, Nelson 323
Mankiewicz, Joseph 255
Manningham, John 27, 70
Mannoni, Octave 318
Marlowe, Christopher 3, 310, 323
– Dr Faustus 310, 313
– Edward II 56, 310
– Hero and Leander 310
– The Jew of Malta 310
marriage
– The Comedy of Errors 43
– Macbeth 251
– Measure for Measure 193, 194, 195, 199, 200, 205–6
– The Merchant of Venice 101–2
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream 85–6, 92, 95, 97
– Much Ado About Nothing 135, 136, 138, 141, 142
– Othello 213, 214
– Romeo and Juliet 76–7, 78
– The Taming of the Shrew 17, 18
– The Tempest 316
– Twelfth Night 182, 187, 191
Marston, John 158
Marx, Karl 106, 154, 159, 163
McKellen, Ian 33
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare) 142, 179, 187, 190, 193–207, 220, 258, 289, 314, 322–3
melancholy 239–41
‘Men Talk’ (Lochhead) 198
Menaechmi (Plautus) 40, 70
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare) 99–112, 135, 186, 197, 295, 297, 315
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare) 114, 133, 134, 299
Metamorphoses (Ovid) 90, 156
metonym 79
Meyer, Anthony 161, 162
Meyer, David 161, 162
microscope 3
Middleton, Thomas 158, 200, 201, 247, 324
– A Chaste Maid in Cheapside 201
Midland Revolt 274
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare) 46–8, 61, 76, 79–80, 83–97, 116, 222, 310, 314–15, 321
mimesis 294, 305
Mirren, Helen 161
misogyny 250, 257
Modern Times (film) 41, 48
Montaigne, Michel de 182, 186
– ‘Of Cannibals’ 318
More, Sir Thomas 37
Morgann, Maurice 118–19
mortality 179, 201–2, 205, 231, 236, 307, 308
Mortimer, John 49
mother figures 137–8, 283
Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories & Tragedies 194
Mucedorus 288
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare) 61, 88, 129–44, 157, 197, 199, 219–21
musical adaptations 95
mytheme 195
N
naming 280–84
Nashe, Thomas 93, 158
New Comedy 133
Nielsen, Asta 161
Nietzsche, Friedrich 163
Noises Off (Frayn) 49–50
North, Thomas 272, 282
Norton, Thomas, Gorboduc 171
Nunn, Trevor 35, 185
Nuttall, A. D., Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure 224
O
‘Of Cannibals’ (Montaigne) 318
Oldcastle, Sir John 117–18, 121, 127
Olivier, Laurence 26, 119, 161, 166, 216
Orlando Furioso (Ariosto) 134
Otello (Verdi) 222, 255
Othello (Shakespeare) 13, 129–30, 144, 195, 209–22, 287, 289, 297, 299, 314
Ovid 6
– Metamorphoses 90, 156
P
Pandosto (Greene) 295–6, 298, 299, 301
parabasis 306
Pasco, Richard 60
Pepys, Samuel 191
Pericles (Shakespeare) 67, 297
peripeteia 290
Phillips, Augustine 66
Platter, Thomas 158
Plautus 133, 221
– Menaechmi 40, 70
Plutarch 281
– Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans 156, 272–3
poetry 157, 158–60, 272
Poets’ Corner 303–4
Polanski, Roman 248
politics 31, 53, 63, 64, 66
Pope, Alexander 303
Portman, Natalie 78
Posner, Lindsay 181
Prince, The (Machiavelli) 72
problem plays 187
Promos and Cassandra (Whetstone) 195
‘Prospero to Ariel’ (Auden) 308
Prospero’s Books (film) 305
Pryce, Jonathan 166
psychomachia 45–6, 313
Psychopathology of Everyday Life, The (Freud) 277
Purkiss, Diane 247
Puttenham, George 75, 79
R
race 209–16, 218–19
Ralegh, Sir Walter, ‘What is our life?’ 253
Rape of Lucrece, The (Shakespeare) 41, 239, 264
Reeves, Keanu 129
Reformation 170, 263
religion 169–70, 216, 229
Restoration 79, 225, 226, 304, 324
revenge tragedy 314
rhyme 61–2, 69, 95
Richard II (Shakespeare) 2, 34, 41, 53–66, 146, 148, 168, 194, 245, 310
Richard III (Shakespeare) 23–38, 57, 129, 168, 310
Richard III Society 38
Richardson, Ian 60
Rire, Le (Laughter) (Bergson) 50
Robeson, Paul 210
Roman names 281–2
Roman plays 266–8, 272
romance genre 293, 294, 295
romantic comedy 88, 92, 131, 191, 199, 206
Romanticism 227, 228, 229
Romeo and Juliet (Luhrmann film) 69, 78
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) 33, 61, 67–81, 94, 116, 143, 256
Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky ballet) 255
Rowe, Nicholas 281
Royal Shakespeare Company 31, 60, 85, 165, 181, 210
Rymer, Thomas 221
S
Sackville, Thomas, Gorboduc 171
Sadler, Hamnet 173
same-sex desire 109, 186
satire 157–8
Saxo Grammaticus 164
Scheemakers, Peter 303
Schlegel, August 228
‘Sea and the Mirror, The’ (Auden) 308
sex and desire
– Measure for Measure 193, 194, 196, 197, 200, 201
– The Merchant of Venice 109
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream 84–5, 88, 90–95, 97
– Othello 212–13
– Romeo and Juliet 76
– same-sex desire 109, 186
– Twelfth Night 177, 184, 186
– The Winter’s Tale 296–9
sexuality
– homosexuality 109, 112, 181–2, 186, 191
– The Merchant of Venice 109
– Much Ado About Nothing 137, 138
– Twelfth Night 88, 181–2, 186, 188, 189
Shakespeare, Hamnet 173, 174, 175
Shakespeare, William
– biographical scholarship 173–5, 274, 277–8, 306, 309–10
– overview 1–6, 321–4
– Antony and Cleopatra 255–70
– The Comedy of Errors 39–51
– Coriolanus 271–85
– Hamlet 161–75
– 1 Henry IV 113–28
– Julius Caesar 145–60
– King Lear 223–37
– Macbeth 239–54
– Measure for Measure 193–207
– The Merchant of Venice 99–112
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream 83–97
– Much Ado About Nothing 129–44
– Othello 209–22
– Richard II 53–66
– Richard III 23–38
– Romeo and Juliet 67–81
– The Taming of the Shrew 7–21
– The Tempest 303–19
– Twelfth Night 177–92
– The Winter’s Tale 287–301
– other works see All’s Well That Ends Well; As You Li
ke It; Cymbeline; 2 Henry IV; Henry V; Henry VI plays; Henry VIII (All is True); King John; Love’s Labour’s Lost; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Pericles; The Rape of Lucrece; Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus; Troilus and Cressida; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Two Noble Kinsmen; Venus and Adonis
Shakespeare Our Contemporary (Kott) 63, 163, 231
Shakespeare’s Globe theatre 2 see also Globe theatre
ShakespeaRe-Told (TV series) 141
Shakespear Illustrated (Lennox) 193
shame 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 268
Shaw, Fiona 61
Shaw, George Bernard 9, 134
Sher, Anthony 26
Sidney, Philip 50
silences 190
Sir John Oldcastle (play) 118
Snyder, Susan 71, 75, 80
soliloquies
– Antony and Cleopatra 264
– The Comedy of Errors 42–3
– Coriolanus 277–8
– Hamlet 163, 166
– Measure for Measure 204–5
– Richard II 55, 59
Some Like it Hot (film) 184
sonnet form 68, 69, 73, 74, 173
Sophocles 71
Spanish Tragedy, The (Kyd) 170–71, 314
Spenser, Edmund 84
– The Faerie Queene 70, 170
stage directions 2, 13, 287–9, 292
Star Wars (film) 33
Stationers’ Hall 158
Steevens, George 39
Stephens, Toby 185
Strachey, Lytton 311
Stubbs, Imogen 185
Suzman, Janet 209
T
Tamer Tamed, The (Fletcher) 14–15, 20
Taming of a Shrew, The 16–20
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare) 2, 7–21, 142, 198, 287, 319
Tate, Nahum, The History of King Lear 225, 226, 227
Taylor, Elizabeth 9
Taylor, Gary 311
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr, Romeo and Juliet 255
telescope 3
telos 33, 35
Tempest, The (Shakespeare) 40–41, 173, 190, 222, 235, 293, 297, 303–19, 321
Tempête, Une (Césaire) 318
Tennant, David 163, 165
Terry, Michelle 2
theatricality 63–4, 170–72, 185, 225, 252–3, 256–7, 284–5, 305–6, 309
Threlfall, David 61
Thurber, James, ‘The Macbeth Murder Mystery’ 242–3
Tillyard, E. M. W. 29, 30, 35, 66
time 293, 294
Timon of Athens (Shakespeare) 106, 270
Titania and Bottom (Landseer painting) 89
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare) 40, 213, 266
tragedy
– Antony and Cleopatra 256, 257, 258, 263, 264, 265, 266, 268
– and comedy 45, 79–80, 143, 173, 186–7, 197–200, 205, 221–2, 290–92
– Coriolanus 283, 285
– Hamlet 173
– Julius Caesar 145, 146
– King Lear 223, 224, 227, 229, 235, 237
– Macbeth 245
– Measure for Measure 197, 198, 200, 205
– Much Ado About Nothing 143
– Othello 220, 221, 222
– revenge tragedy 314
– Richard II 57–8, 59
– Romeo and Juliet 71–3, 79–80
– Twelfth Night 186–7
– The Winter’s Tale 289–92, 296
tragicall history of Romeus and Juliet, The (Brooke) 73–4
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare) 67, 95, 270
Tudor myth 29–30
Turner, Lindsay 2
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) 40, 70, 88, 109, 135, 177–92, 204, 222, 271, 299
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The (Shakespeare) 133, 134, 182, 190
Two Noble Kinsmen, The (Shakespeare and Fletcher) 14, 134, 182, 306, 308
U
Ulysses (Joyce) 162
V
Vaughan, Alden T. 318
Vaughan, Virginia Mason 318
Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare) 41, 239, 310
Verdi, Giuseppe, Otello 222, 255
Virgil, Aeneid 269
W
Waiting for Godot (Beckett) 43, 231–2
Warner, David 163
Warner, Deborah 61
Webster, John 239
Weinberg, Joanna 209
Welles, Orson 248
– Chimes at Midnight 126
‘What is our life?’ (Ralegh) 253
Whetstone, George, Promos and Cassandra 195
Whishaw, Ben 56
Wilder, Billy 184
Wilson Knight, G. 230–31, 279
Wimsatt, W. K., ‘The Intentional Fallacy’ 272
Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare) 134, 220, 235, 283, 287–301, 306, 314
witches 243–5, 247–51
women’s roles
– Antony and Cleopatra 256–7
– The Comedy of Errors 48–9
– Coriolanus 283
– Macbeth 249–51
– The Merchant of Venice 100
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream 86
– Much Ado About Nothing 137–9, 142–3
– Othello 219–20
– Richard III 36–8
– The Taming of the Shrew 10–12, 16–18
– The Winter’s Tale 294
Woolcock, Penny 246
Worstward Ho (Beckett) 291
Z
Zeffirelli, Franco 2, 9
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