Index of Shakespeare Plays

Listed below are links to summaries/synopses of all of Shakespeare's plays in pseudo-alphabetical order; pseudo because they go alphabetically until the history plays, which I have listed in the order that the play's plot takes place in history instead. After the history plays, the listing resumes alphabetically.

These summaries are bare-bones, but most of them are quite detailed covering all major plot developments and most of the characters (33,000 total words, 888 on average per summary).

I wrote these synopses as I read and simultaneously watched the BBC productions of each of these plays between 1995 and 1997. I hope you enjoy them. Full texts of Shakespeare's plays are available from various sites including The Complete Works at MIT.

• All's Well That Ends Well
• Antony and Cleopatra
• As You Like It
• The Comedy of Errors
• Coriolanus
• Cymbeline
• Hamlet

  Now all of the history plays, in order of the time in which the story takes place.

• King John
• Richard II
• Henry IV, pt. 1
• Henry IV, pt. 2
• Henry V
• Henry VI, pt. 1
• Henry VI, pt. 2
• Henry VI, pt. 3
• Richard III
• Henry VIII

  Back to alphabetical order

• Julius Caesar
• King Lear
• Love's Labor Lost
• Macbeth
• Measure for Measure
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Othello
• Pericles
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• Timon of Athens
• Titus Andronicus
• Troilus and Cressida
• Twelfth Night
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Two Noble Kinsmen
• The Winter's Tale

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