Shakespearean plays
Elizabethan theatrical works
Shakespearean plays are the dramatic works of William Shakespeare, the English playwright whose 37 plays from the late 16th and early 17th centuries remain central to Western literature and theater.
They divide traditionally into comedies, tragedies, and histories.
The term sometimes extends to works written in Shakespeare's style or era: The festival featured Shakespearean plays and period music.
- Edward IIIFourteenth-century English sovereign
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- to be or not to beExistential dilemma phrased dramatically
- MacbethAmbitious thane's downfall
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
A Midsummer Night's Dream · tragic flaw · Elizabethan drama · The Tempest · King Lear · Twelfth Night · Othello · Cymbeline · Romeo and Juliet · star-crossed lovers · soliloquy · Julius Caesar · Much Ado About Nothing · comic relief · Richard II · King John · Henry V · monologue
- theater historyGreek tragedy, vaudeville, Drury Lane, Christopher Marlowe, Greek comedy
- Early TheaterElizabethan theatre, Globe Theatre, Marlowe, playhouse, playwrights
- Renaissance Romancecourtly love, love sonnets, tragic love, love poetry, star-crossed lovers
- Shakespeare AuthorshipFrancis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, doubters, co-authorship, documentary evidence
Shakespearean playsavant-garde theater
Innovative, nontraditional stage performance
contemporary drama · absurdist theater · immersive theater · experimental theater · Hamilton
Shakespearean playsBeijing opera
Classical Chinese musical drama
absurdist theater · theater of the absurd · immersive theater
Shakespearean playsreality television
Programming featuring non-actors
trash TV · pulp fiction · soap operas · B-movies · airport novels