id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt web-archive-org-1929 Discovering Literature: Shakespeare - The British Library .html text/html 1468 204 69 Discovering Literature: Shakespeare The British Library Explore the British Library (56m items) Explore Shakespeare's plays in relation to the social, political and cultural context in which they were written, and in which they have been interpreted over the last four centuries. John Mullan explores how Shakespeare uses speech and action to conjure the play's sense of growing darkness. Michael Dobson describes the political context in which Shakespeare wrote Coriolanus, and how the play has resonated with later generations of playwrights, directors and actors. Explore Shakespeare's plays by theme. From Hamlet's melancholy to Juliet's eloquence; and from Lear's madness to Othello's misunderstanding, discover the richness of Shakespeare's tragedies. From the staging of disability to the influence of Machiavelli, explore Shakespeare's history plays. Explore a selection of collection items that relate to Shakespeare and the context in which his plays were written. Explore 13 of Shakespeare's plays. ./cache/web-archive-org-1929.html ./txt/web-archive-org-1929.txt