Research Catalog

Title

A guide to scenes & monologues from Shakespeare and his contemporaries / Kurt Daw, Julia Matthews.

Author

Daw, Kurt.

Publication

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Matthews, Julia, 1965-

Description

xviii, 157 pages; 23 cm

Summary

For the actor looking for classical material for scene study, monologue work, or auditions, this volume is the most extensive guide available to the repertoire of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It is a complete guide to more than six hundred playable scenes and monologues from the theatre of Shakespeare's time.

Alternative Title

Guide to scenes and monologues from Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Subjects

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Outlines, syllabi, etc
• Acting > Auditions

Contents

• Early Comedies by Shakespeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona. The Comedy of Errors. The Taming of the Shrew. Love's Labour's Lost. A Midsummer's Night Dream -- Early Comedies by Shakespeare's Contemporaries. John Lyly. Endimion. Campaspe. Gallathea. Robert Greene. Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. James IV -- Mature Comedies by Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing. As You Like It. Twelfth Night. The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Mature Comedies by Shakespeare's Contemporaries: Jonson and Citizen Comedy. Ben Jonson. Every Man in His Humour. Every Man out of His Humour. Volpone. Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. The Alchemist. Bartholomew Fair. Thomas Dekker. The Shoemakers' Holiday. The Honest Whore, Parts 1 and 2 (with Thomas Middleton). Thomas Middleton. A Mad World, My Masters. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Thomas Heywood. The Fair Maid of the West Parts 1 and 2 -- Problem Plays and Satires by Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice. Troilus and Cressida. Measure for Measure.
• All's Well That Ends Well -- Problem Plays and Satires by Shakespeare's Contemporaries. John Marston. The Fawn (Parasitaster). The Malcontent. Antonio and Mellida. Philip Massinger. A New Way to Pay Old Debts. The City Madam -- Revenge Tragedies. Shakespeare. Titus Andronicus. Thomas Kyd. The Spanish Tragedy. Cyril Tourneur. The Revenger's Tragedy. The Atheist's Tragedy. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. The Maid's Tragedy. George Chapman. The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois -- Major Tragedies. Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Macbeth. King Lear. Christopher Marlowe. Tamburlaine the Great, Parts 1 and 2. Doctor Faustus. The Jew of Malta -- Tragedies of Classical Times. Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Coriolanus. Timon of Athens. Ben Jonson. Sejanus. Catiline -- Jacobean and Caroline Tragedies. Thomas Heywood. A Woman Killed with Kindness. John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi. The White Devil. Thomas Middleton. Women Beware Women.
• The Changeling (with William Rowley). The Witch. John Ford. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. The Broken Heart -- Histories by Shakespeare. An Early Oddity. King John. The First Tetralogy. Richard II. Henry IV, Part 1. Henry IV, Part 2. Henry V. The Second Tetralogy. Henry VI, Part 1. Henry VI, Part 2. Henry VI, Part 3. Richard III. One Last History. All Is True (Henry VIII) (with John Fletcher) -- Histories by Shakespeare's Contemporaries. Christopher Marlowe. Edward II. John Ford. Perkin Warbeck -- Romances and Tragicomedies by Shakespeare. Pericles. Cymbeline. The Winter's Tale. The Tempest. Two Noble Kinsmen (with John Fletcher) -- Tragicomedies by Shakespeare's Contemporaries. John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont. Philoster. A King and No King. Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, and John Ford. The Witch of Edmonton -- The Golden Age of Spanish Dramas. Translations and Editions. Lope Felix de Vega Carpio. Scripts for Further Consideration. Tirso de Molina.
• Scripts for Further Consideration. Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Scripts for Further Consideration -- Sonnets and Other Poems. Sonnets. "A Lover's Complaint" Venus and Adonis. The Rape of Lucrece. App. A. Notes on the Order of Composition of Shakespeare's Plays -- App. B. About the Selection Guides -- App. C. Selection Guide to Monologues -- App. D. Selection Guide to Scenes.

ISBN

0325000158

LCCN

97052066

OCLC

ocm38199283

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries