The Penguin Shakespeare Dictionary

The second revised edition of the A-Z dictionary of Shakespeare's work, contemporaries, sources and characters. Includes essays on Shakespeare's life, the theatre of the time and on play production, with an extensive bibliography. Entries cover plot synopses, characters in the plays, theatre locations and events in Shakespeare's life.

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This text contains a comprehensive A-Z list of all Shakespeare's plays, all of the characters in those plays, as well as persons and places mentioned in the plays; the principal actors, acting companies, and theatres of the time; other playwrights, writers and historical figures of Elizabethan times important to Shakespeare's works; contemporary writings that mentioned Shakespeare and entries for those people to whom Shakespeare's plays have been attributed; and the various theories put forward as to his "true identity".