Renaissance playwrights—help define the genre of history plays. The Shakespearean histories are biographies of English kings of the previous four centuries...

Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers...

Plutarch's Parallel Lives—which introduced a new kind of drama. According to Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro, in Julius Caesar, "the various strands of politics...

as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed...

never seen in performance, are followers of Lear in King Lear. List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z) Bate 2006, p. 124. Anne Barton (ed.) New Penguin Shakespeare...

Courtship". In Leggatt, Alexander (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

In Shakespearean scholarship, the Henriad refers to a group of William Shakespeare's history plays depicting the rise of the English kings. It is sometimes...

in translation". The film, based on the Henriad, a collection of Shakespearean history plays about the monarchs of England, includes several fictional...

have been a source of interest because of their extensive links to Shakespearean history, as well as King Lear, Macbeth and Cymbeline. Recent studies of...

Shakespeare After All is a book length work of Shakespearean scholarship, consisting of thirty-eight essays that encompass all thirty-eight of Shakespeare's...