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Shakespeare's SettingsShakespeare's plays are set in many exotic locations, from Verona and Milan to Athens and Rousillon.The following is a list of the settings of Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. Please see The Settings of Shakespeare's Plays by Date for a chronology of the content of the plays. ___ All's Well that Ends Well Setting: Rousillon, Paris, Florence, and Marseilles Antony and Cleopatra Setting: Parts of the Roman Empire As You Like It Setting: Forest of Arden The Comedy of Errors Setting: Ephesus Coriolanus Setting: Rome, Corioli, and Antium Cymbeline Setting: Britain, Italy Hamlet Setting: Elsinore Julius Caesar Setting: Rome; afterwards, Sardis and near Philippi King Lear Setting: Britain Love's Labour's Lost Setting: Navarre Macbeth Setting: Scotland and England Measure for Measure Setting: Vienna The Merchant of Venice Setting: Partly in Venice, and partly at Belmont, the seat of Portia on the Continent The Merry Wives of Windsor Setting: Windsor A Midsummer Night's Dream Setting: Athens, and a wood nearby Much Ado about Nothing Setting: Messina Othello Setting: Venice (for first act) and a sea-port in Cyprus Pericles, Prince of Tyre Setting: various countries Romeo and Juliet Setting: Verona and Mantua The Taming of the Shrew Setting: Sometimes in Padua, and sometimes in Petruchio's home in the country The Tempest Setting: The Sea; afterwards an Island Timon of Athens Setting: Athens Titus Andronicus Setting: Rome Troilus and Cressida Setting: Troy The Two Gentlemen of Verona Setting: Verona, Milan, and the frontiers of Mantua Twelfth Night Setting: A city in Illyria, and the sea-coast nearby The Winter's Tale Setting: Sometimes in Sicilia, sometimes in Bohemia How to cite this article:__________ More Resources  The Metre of Macbeth: Blank Verse and Rhymed Lines Contemporary References to King James I in Macbeth The Royal Patent that Changed Shakespeare's Life Hefner, Polanksi and Macbeth Aesthetic Examination Questions on Macbeth Quotes About Shakespeare Edward Alleyn (Actor) William Kempe (Actor) Shakespeare's Boss What is Tragic Irony? Characteristics of Elizabethan Tragedy
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Dramatist and Shakespearean scholar Nicholas Rowe was the first to write a critical (annotated) edition of Shakespeare's works. ___ The average length of a play in Elizabethan England was 3000 lines. With 4,042 lines and 29,551 words, Hamlet is the longest Shakespearean play (based on the first edition of The Riverside Shakespeare (1974)). With 1,787 lines and 14,369 words, The Comedy of Errors is the shortest Shakespearean play (also based on the first edition of The Riverside Shakespeare). ___ Shakespeare's late comedies are considered romances: The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, Cymbeline, and Pericles. The Two Noble Kinsman is also sometimes mentioned along side these other plays as a romantic comedy. ___ Love's Labour's Lost has the highest percentage of rhyming lines of all of Shakespeare's plays. According to Shakespearean scholar Tucker Brooke, 62.2% of the lines in Love's Labour's Lost rhyme. The closest competitor is A Midsummer Night's Dream, with 43.4% rhyming lines. ___ The historical time of King Lear is roughly 800 BC, making it the second-earliest setting of any of Shakespeare's plays. Click here to find out the first. |
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