Title: An Essential Shakespeare (Hamlet / King Henry IV. Part 1 / King Lear / Measure for Measure / Midsummer Night's Dream / Othello / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Tempest / Twelfth Night)
First published: January 1972
Description: Contains:

PLAYS
[Hamlet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15203981W/Hamlet)
King Henry IV. Part 1
King Lear
Measure for Measure
Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello
[Romeo and Juliet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362705W/Romeo_and_Juliet)
[Tempest](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362699W)
Twelfth Night

Sonnets
Subjects: English literature: Shakespeare texts, Classics, performing arts, English drama, tragicomedy, Drama, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Magicians, Fathers and daughters, Castaways, Plays, Spirits, Shipwreck victims, English literature, Political refugees, English Young adult drama, Islands, Shipwreck survival, Juvenile drama, Children's plays, courtship, Youth, Vendetta, Love-Romance-Fiction, Classic-Classical Literature, Suspense-Fiction, Conflict of generations, Juvenile literature, Dramatic production, Tragedy, Suicide, Love in adolescence, English Love stories, Man-woman relationships, Families, Fiction, Shakespeare plays, texts, Succession, Fathers, Regicide, classic literature, fathers succession, quartos, regicides, production and direction, inheritance and succession, Britons, English plays, ageing parents, scripts, English language, open_syllabus_project, Princes, English drama (Tragedy), Kings and rulers, Murder victims' families, Revenge, Death, Homicide, English, Drama texts, Drama texts: from c 1900 -, Tragedies, Victims of crimes
Places: Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Verona, Naples, Carthage
People: Claudius, Hamlet, Polonius, Horatio, Laertes, Voltimand, Cornelius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Osric, Gentleman, Priest, Marcellus, Bernardo, Francisco, Reynaldo, Players, Two Clowns, Fortinbras, Captain, English Ambassadors, Gertrude, Ophelia, Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, Attendants, Ghost of Hamlet's father, Juliet Capulet, Romeo Montague, Escalus, Mercutio, Paris, Lady Montague, Benvolio, Abram, Balthasar, Lady Capulet, Tybalt, Sampson, Peter, Gregory, Friar Lawrence, Friar John, Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Caliban, Sycorax, Iris, Ceres, Juno, Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Ferdinand, Gonzalo, William Shakespeare (1564-1616)