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The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare 's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre numerous times worldwide.
Richard II (play) The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, commonly called Richard II, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1595. Based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399), it chronicles his downfall and the machinations of his nobles.
With the swaggering vaine of ancient Pistoll, and corporal Nym. The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor[1] is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a reference to the town of Windsor, also the ...
William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Also, some occur elsewhere, such as the Bible, or are proverbial. A few, listed out ( Note: all are second quarto except as noted ): Act I, scene 1 : As the mote is to ...
King John. (play) Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917), as King John in 'King John' by William Shakespeare, Charles A. Buchel (1900) The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), the son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of ...
Dogberry is a character created by William Shakespeare for his play Much Ado About Nothing. The Nuttall Encyclopædia describes him as a "self-satisfied night constable" with an inflated view of his own importance as the leader of a group of comically bumbling watchmen. [1] Dogberry is notable for his numerous malapropisms, sometimes called ...
A Fox may steal your hens, sir. A Whore your health and pence, sir. Your daughter rob your chest, sir. Your wife may steal your rest, sir. A thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking. With rest, pence, chest and chicken. It ever was decreed, sir. If Lawyer's Hand is fee'd, sir.
The Duel Scene from 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare, William Powell Frith (1842). In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; [1] and modern scholars recognise a fourth category, romance, to describe the specific types of comedy that appear in Shakespeare's later works.