No Fear Shakespeare: A Companion

PART I: SHAKESPEARE THE MAN: Everything you really need to know about his life, career, and world ONE: What's So Great About Shakespeare? TWO: Famous Shakespeare Lovers THREE: How Did Shakespeare Get So Smart? FOUR: What Did Shakespeare Care About? FIVE: Five Mysteries of Shakespeare's Life—And Why They Matter SIX: Did Someone Else Write Shakespeare's Plays? SEVEN: Famous Shakespeare Haters EIGHT: Where Did Shakespeare Get His Ideas? NINE: Shakespeare's World TEN: Shakespeare's Theater ELEVEN: Shakespeare's Language TWELVE: The Give Greatest Shakespeare Characters PART II: SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: Everything you really need to know about each of Shakespeare's plays The Top Ten: Then plays that everyone should know 1. Hamlet 2. Romeo and Juliet 3. King Lear 4. Macbeth 5. Othello 6. A Midsummer Night's Dream 7. Julius Caesar 8. The Taming of the Shrew 9. The Tempest 10. The Merchant of Venice Plays That Show You're Really Well-Read 11. Twelfth Night 12. Much Ado About Nothing 13. As You Like It 14. Richard III 15. Henry V 16. Henry IV, Part One 17. Henry IV, Part Two 18. Richard II 19. Antony and Cleopatra 20. Measure for Measure Plays with Which to Seriously Impress Your Teacher 21. The Winter's Tale 22. The Comedy of Errors 23. Coriolanus 24. The Two Gentlemen of Verona 25. Titus Andronicus 26. Henry VI, Part One 27. Henry VI, Part Two 28. Henry VI, Part Three 29. Love's Labor's Lost 30. The Merry Wives of Windsor Plays for Hardcover Shakespeareans 31. King John 32. Troilus and Cressida 33. All's Well That Ends Well 34. Timon of Athens 35. Pericles 36. Cymbeline 37. The Two Noble Kinsmen 38. Henry VIII Bonus: Poetry! 39. The Sonnets 40. Venus and Adonis 41. The Rape of Lucrece