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- All Is True
- All’s Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline, King of Britain
- The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Henry IV Part 1
- Henry IV Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI Part 1
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- A Lover’s Complaint
- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Richard Duke of York
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter’s Tale
Measure for Measure
- Source:
- The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
- Author(s):
- Sonia MassaiSonia Massai, Anthony DaviesAnthony Davies
Shakespeare’s ambivalently comic treatment of power, sexuality, and repression belongs very much to the early years of the Jacobean period. ...
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- All Is True
- All’s Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline, King of Britain
- The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Henry IV Part 1
- Henry IV Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI Part 1
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- A Lover’s Complaint
- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Richard Duke of York
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter’s Tale
