Wikipedia:WikiReader/William Shakespeare

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This is a proposed WikiReader about William Shakespeare.

We will try to cover Shakespearan life and authorship and influence, as well as coverage of his most famous work. I have divided the reader into three large parts; Shakespeare personally, Shakespeare's works, and Shakespeare's England.

• Quick mock-up using wiki2PDF: WikiReaderShakespeare-mockup.pdf (Out of Order) - 2008
• Note: Britannica has a "competitor": [1]
• Participants: (add yourself!)
  • Lyellin
  • The bellman

See also: Category:William Shakespeare

Stubs are marked with a *. Articles needing cleanup with a #

Contents 1 Contents 1.1 Personal 1.2 Works 1.3 Shakespeare's England 1.4 End material 2 Pending inclusion 2.1 Works 2.1.1 Lost works 2.1.2 History 2.2 Other 3 To do 4 Images we can use 5 Reference material 5.1 Source Text

[edit] Contents

[edit] Personal

• William Shakespeare - Is up to Featured Article status (Lyellin Checked)
  • Stratford-upon-Avon -(Lyellin Checked)
  • John Shakespeare - (Lyellin Checked)
  • Mary Arden
  • King's Men (playing company)
  • Royal Shakespeare Theatre
  • Richard Burbage
  • Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)
  • William Kempe (06:54, Aug 17, 2004 Mr impossible; checked by Lyellin 20:41, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC))
  • New Place
  • Blackfriars Theatre
  • Shakespeare's reputation (New article still in flux, give it a week or two The bellman 10:00, 2004 Nov 27 (UTC)) No longer new article - 2008
  • Chandos portrait

[edit] Works

• Shakespearean authorship ( 16:19, 2004 Nov 24 Ricky81682; checked by The bellman -)
  • Folios and Quartos (Shakespeare) (needs work - The bellman 23:08, 2004 Dec 1 (UTC))
  • Shakespearean tragedy #
    • Hamlet
    • King Lear
    • Macbeth
    • Othello
    • Romeo and Juliet
    • Antony and Cleopatra
    • Troilus and Cressida
    • Timon of Athens
    • Titus Andronicus
    • The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
    • Coriolanus (play)
  • Shakespearean comedies
    • All's Well That Ends Well
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • The Tempest
    • The Comedy of Errors
    • As You Like It
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Measure for Measure
    • The Taming of the Shrew
    • Twelfth Night
    • The Merchant of Venice
    • The Merry Wives of Windsor
    • Love's Labour's Lost
    • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • Pericles, Prince of Tyre
    • Cymbeline
    • The Winter's Tale
    • The Two Noble Kinsmen
  • Shakespearean histories
    • Henry IV, part 1
    • Henry IV, part 2
    • Henry VIII (play)
    • King John
    • Richard III
    • Richard II
    • Henry VI, part 1
    • Henry VI, part 2
    • Henry VI, part 3
    • Henry V
  • Shakespeare's sonnets
    • Dark Lady
    • Fair Lord
  • Shakespeare's Late Romances
  • Shakespeare Apocrypha

[edit] Shakespeare's England

• Elizabethan era
  • Elizabethan theatre
  • Globe Theatre
  • Elizabeth I of England
• Contemporaries
  • James I of England
  • Mary I of Scotland
  • Walter Raleigh
  • Christopher Marlowe
  • Francis Bacon
  • Francis Drake
  • Ben Jonson
• Protestant_Reformation
• Renaissance
• Spanish Armada
• Elizabethan era timeline

[edit] End material

• Chronology of Shakespeare plays

[edit] Pending inclusion

[edit] Works

[edit] Lost works

• Love's Labour's Won
• Cardenio

[edit] History

• Edward III (play) (attributed)
• The Book of Sir Thomas Moore (attributed)

[edit] Other

• Oxfordian theory
• Royal Shakespeare Company
• Tudor dynasty

[edit] To do

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiReader/William Shakespeare:

Copyedit Everything Create Elizabethan era timeline possibly Portraits of William Shakespeare Other Consolidate lists of plays that appear in many of the articles List "Shakespeare's England" articles that we might include Expand Shakespearean tragedy wb Shakespearean comedies wb Shakespearean histories wb Shakespeare's Late Romances William Shakespeare, the Biography section Globe Theatre Mary Arden King's Men (playing company) Royal Shakespeare Theatre Royal Shakespeare Company

[edit] Images we can use

• A portrait, unconfirmed to really be him (license?)
• His autograph (PD)
• A painting depicting a scene from Macbeth (PD?)
• "Othello and Desdemona in Venice" (PD)
• Marlowe (PD)
• The new Globe theatre (GFDL)
• Elizabeth I (PD)

[edit] Reference material

• wikibooks:Introduction to Shakespeare

[edit] Source Text

The complete works of Shakespeare on WikiSource

• Hamlet
  • Hamlet quotes
• Othello
  • Othello quotes
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • A Midsummer Night's Deam quotes