Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature

This document contains some notes on William Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost, plus a scene-by-scene summary.

This summary contains: - A full summary of Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave - Period, Characters, Themes & Important Quotes - Notes on the (History of) the Novel - Notes on Oroonoko – the Character - Other notes

This summary contains: Introduction to the sixteenth century Whoso List to Hunt – Thomas Wyatt Rima 140 – Petrarch Rima 190 – Petrarch Rima 189 – Petrarch Love, that doth reign and live within my thought – Henry Howard The Assyrians’ King – Henry Howard Amoretti 67 – Spenser Amoretti 68 – Spenser Astrophil & Stella no. 41 – Philip Sidney Sonnet 1 – Shakespeare Sonnet 20 – Shakespeare Sonnet 55 – Shakespeare Sonnet 130 – Shakespeare Cynthia no. 9 –...

This summary contains: A scene-by-scene summary of King Lear, taken from The Folger Library General Reader’s Shakespeare The Tragedy of King Lear edited by Louis B. Wright & Virginia L. Freund, Pocket Library, published in 1957. Bullet Points: Period, Characters, Themes & Important Quotes Notes on the Fools Other Notes

This summary contains: The Tragical History of Dr Faustus by Marlowe, a scene-by-scene summary Bullet points: Period, Characters, Themes & Important Quotes A comparison of two different versions of the play (From Greenblatt’s Norton Anthology of English Literature) A summary of ‘Christopher Marlow: Dr Faustus’ by Lawton Notes on from Playwriter to Play Notes on Did Faustus Go To Heaven? Notes on Subplot in Dr Faustus Notes on Place in the Play

This summary contains: A scene-by-scene summary from the New Swan Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, edited by Bernard Lott, published by Longman Group Limited in London. Bullet Points: Period, Characters, Themes & Important Quotes A summary of ‘Religious Nonconformity and the Quality of Mercy: The Merchant of Venice in Reformation Context’ by Shagan Notes on Comedies Notes on Portia Notes on Shylock Notes on Jews in England Other Notes