Outlines of Shakespeare's plays / [electronic resource] by Homer A. Watt and Karl J. Holzknecht and Raymond Ross.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-209) and index.

Shakespeare's life. -- Shakespeare's theatre. -- The sequence of Shakespeare's plays. -- Shakespeare's sources. -- Some suggestions on reading Shakespeare. -- Comedies: Love labor's lost, The Comedy of errors, The two gentleman of Verona, A midsummer night's dream, The merchant of Venice, The taming of the shrew, The merry wives of Windsor, Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night, or, What you will, All's well that ends well, Measure for measure, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, The winter's tale, The tempest. -- Histories: Shakespeare's history plays, King John, Richard II, Henry IV: Part I, Henry IV: Part II, Henry V, Henry VI: Part I, Henry VI: Part II, Henry VI: Part III, Richard III, Henry VIII. -- Tragedies: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, the moor of Venice, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus. -- Appendices. Everyday expressions from Shakespeare ; Book-titles from Shakespeare.