Outline of William Shakespeare

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and legacy of William Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare – 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".

William Shakespeare's works

• William Shakespeare bibliography –
• Chronology of William 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
  • List of Shakespearean characters (A–K)
  • List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z)
  • List of historical figures dramatised by Shakespeare
  • Women in Shakespeare's works

Shakespeare's plays

Shakespeare's plays –

Shakespeare's tragedies

Shakespearean tragedy –

• Antony and Cleopatra –
• Coriolanus –
• Hamlet –
• Julius Caesar (play) –
• King Lear –
• Macbeth –
• Othello –
• Romeo and Juliet –
• Timon of Athens –
• Titus Andronicus –
• Troilus and Cressida –

Shakespeare's comedies

Shakespearean comedy –

• 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 –

Shakespeare's histories

Shakespearean history –

• The Life and Death of King John –
• Edward III (play) –
• Richard II (play) –
• Henry IV, Part 1 –
• Henry IV, Part 2 –
• Henry V (play) –
• Henry VI, Part 1 –
• Henry VI, Part 2 –
• Henry VI, Part 3 –
• Richard III (play) –
• Henry VIII (play) –

Shakespeare's 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 (Shakespeare poem) –
• The Rape of Lucrece –
• The Phoenix and the Turtle –
• The Passionate Pilgrim –

Shakespeare Apocrypha

Shakespeare Apocrypha –

Plays

• Sir Thomas More (play) –
• 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 (play) –
• Sir John Oldcastle –
• Thomas Lord Cromwell –
• A Yorkshire Tragedy –
• Fair Em –
• Mucedorus –
• The Merry Devil of Edmonton –
• Arden of Faversham –
• Edmund Ironside (play) –
• Vortigern and Rowena –
• Ireland Shakespeare forgeries –

Poetry

• To the Queen –
• Shakespeare Apocrypha#A Funeral Elegy –

Analyses of Shakespeare's works

• Shakespeare's editors –
• Shakespeare attribution studies –
• Shakespeare authorship question –
• William Shakespeare's style –

William Shakespeare's life

Shakespeare's life –

• Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)
• Shakespeare's Birthplace
• Shakespeare garden –
• Shakespeare's Globe –
• Shakespeare's handwriting –
• Shakespeare in performance –
• Portraits of Shakespeare –
• Religious views of William Shakespeare –
• William Shakespeare's reputation –
• Sexuality of William Shakespeare –
• Spelling of Shakespeare's name –
• Stratford-upon-Avon –
• Shakespeare's will

People associated with Shakespeare

• 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 –

William Shakespeare's legacy

William 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 –

Shakespeare memorials and monuments

• Memorials to William Shakespeare –
  • Shakespeare's funerary monument –
• Statue of William Shakespeare, Leicester Square –
• Shakespeare's Way

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 –
  • Shakespeare in the Park festivals –
• List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations –
  • BBC Television Shakespeare –
  • Shakespeare: The Animated Tales –
• ShakespeaRe-Told –
• Shakespearean theatres
  • Shakespeare's Globe Centres
• 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

• Shakespeare in Love –

See also

• Outline of literature
• Outline of poetry
• Outline of theatre

References

External links

• This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
• Internet Shakespeare Editions
• Folger Digital Texts
• Open Source Shakespeare complete works, with search engine and concordance
• First Four Folios 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 the Internet Movie Database
• 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