Rare Shakespeare

Before I can discuss the ways in which Shakespeare understood, approached and represented the concept of Romance in Cymbeline and Pericles, it is first necessary to distinguish exactly what this term meant. Romance is a grouping of Shakespeare’s later prose which required the reader to suspend scepticism on the improbable nature of the plot, and experience it on its own qualities through the emblematic and collective patterns of human experience.

For the purpose of this essay, I will assess the dramatic choices taken in the 2011 production of All’s Well That Ends Well at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, a one-sided romance set between France and Italy and based on a tale from Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron.

3 hour lecture and seminar notes combined - looking at plot, why it's a problem play, opinions on execution of the play & the Globe's on stage version etc.

a detailed 5 page document on the plot and other ideas about Shakespeare's Problem Play - Timon of Athens - these notes are lecture and a 3 hour seminar combined.