TY - BOOK AU - Alexander, Catherine M.S. TI - The treasures of William Shakespear SN - 9780233004174 AV - PR 2900 .A44 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - London, United Kingdom PB - Andre Deutsch KW - HISTORY N1 - Introduction -- The Elizabethan Age- the court -- The Elizabethan Age-the country -- Elizabethan Stratford -- Shakespeare in Stratford -- Shakespeare's London -- Shakespeare's Contemporaries -- The Elizabethan Stage -- Shakespeare's Texts -- " The Plays the Thing" -- The Comedies- happily ever after -- The Comedies- distorting the convention -- The History Plays- the first tetralogy -- The History Plays-the second tetralogy N2 - William Shakespeare is the best-known dramatist in the world and his plays, plots. characters and language have outlived their original context of the Elizabeth and Jacobean playhouse ER -