King Lear descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences

Drinking! Dancing! Comedy! What more can you ask in a play? Um...how about for it to make sense in modern English?! BookCaps Has you Covered! If you have strugg

The Tempest is a short play...and a confusing one. There is no one single central plot (there are three main plots that alternate throughout the story). Long st

Violent! Bloody! Revenge! It's not Quentin Tarantino--it's Shakespeare! And Titus Andronicus is perhaps one of the greatest revenge plays he ever wrote. Revenge

Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing th