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Tables of Contents for The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part 1: Shakespeare's Life and Times
1
82
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
3
10
The Renaissance 101
13
12
All the World's a Stage: Shakespeare's Theater
25
12
The Play's the Thing
37
12
Brush Up on Your Shakespeare
49
14
Something Fishy About the Man from Stratford: The Authorship Question
63
10
Shakespeare's Literary Reputation
73
10
Part 2: The Comedies (or ``Love Makes the World Go `Round'')
83
62
The Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona
85
12
The Taming of the Shrew and Love's Labor's Lost
97
12
A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice
109
14
As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing
123
12
Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor
135
10
Part 3: Problem Plays
145
26
All's Well That Ends Well
147
8
Troilus and Cressida
155
8
Measure for Measure
163
8
Part 4: Tragedies
171
96
Titus Andronicus
173
8
Hamlet
181
12
Romeo and Juliet
193
10
Julius Caesar
203
10
Othello, the Moor of Venice
213
12
King Lear
225
10
Macbeth
235
12
Antony and Cleopatra
247
10
Coriolanus and Timon of Athens
257
10
Part 5: Romances
267
24
The Tempest and The Winter's Tale
269
12
Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Cymbeline
281
10
Part 6: Histories
291
50
King Henry VI, Part I: King Henry VI, Part II; King Henry VI, Part III
293
12
King Richard III, King Richard II
305
10
King John; King Henry IV, Part I
315
12
King Henry IV, Part II; King Henry V; King Henry VIII
327
14
Part 7: Poems and Sonnets
341
30
The Battle of the Sexes Told in Rhyme
343
10
The Sonnets
353
18
Appendices
A Elizabethan English
365
4
B Further Reading
369
2
Index
371