The Two Gentlemen of Verona
This comedy is considered by many to be Shakespeare’s first. Most critics find it be an uneven affair, except for...
The Taming of the Shrew
As one of Shakespeare’s best-known comedies, Shrew has an ending that’s hard for modern audiences to accept. The titular ‘shrew’...
Henry VI, Part 2
You’ve heard how some writers are paid by the word? I’m beginning to think that Shakespeare was paid by the...
Henry VI, Part 3
I knew that one or more of Shakespeare’s history plays involved the so-called Wars of the Roses. So when I...
Henry VI, Part 1
The reason we call the Wars of the Roses the ‘Wars of the Roses’ is because of a scene in...
Titus Andronicus
So much memorably awful stuff happens in Titus Andronicus that it is an embarrassment of riches if you are doing...
Richard III
I feel as though a melted chess king is a pretty obvious idea for Richard III, long deformed in the...
The Comedy of Errors
After women dressing up as men and totally fooling everyone around them, Shakespeare’s other hoary old dramatic chestnut is, of...
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before – four bookish scholars give up women for a year in order to...
Richard II
There are a number of latent ‘twos’ in Richard II. Most significant perhaps is the academic conceit of the King’s...
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