Elements of Shakespearean Comedy - Exploring what makes a comedy a comedy. Exploring the Nature of Shakespearean Comedy From The System of Shakespeare's Dramas. by Denton Jaques Snider.
St. Louis: G. T. Jones and Company. Home learning 7th DEC. Timeline of Plays. The Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays Establishing the chronology of Shakespeare's plays is a most frustrating and difficult task.
It is impossible to know the exact order of succession because there is no record of the first production date of any of Shakespeare's works. However, scholars have decided upon a specific play chronology, based upon the following sources of information: 1) several historical events and allusions to those events in the plays; 2) the records of performances of the plays -- taken from such places as Henslowe's diary and the diaries of other Shakespeare contemporaries like John Manningham (a student at the Inns of Court), and Thomas Platter (a Swiss businessman); 3) the publication dates of sources; 4) the dates that the plays appear in print (remembering that the production of a play immediately followed the completion of that play in the Elizabethan age). Please click on each play to find extensive study resources and fascinating details. Video: Petruchio Meeting Kate (BBC)
Introduction. Week 6 reading. Week 5 reading. Reources for presentation task concept of dramatic theory. Week 2 reading. Week 4. Week 3 reading.