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Detailed Synopsis of ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Act One: In the Prologue to Act One, the Chorus tells of two families in Verona, Italy, who have hated and fought with each other for many years. The son of one family and the daughter of the other...
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Detailed Synopsis of ‘As You Like It’
Act One: Forced by his elder brother, Oliver, to do menial work, Orlando complains of him to Adam, the family’s aged servant. Though Orlando’s late father, Sir Rowland de Boys, gave an inheritance to...
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Detailed Synopsis for ‘Macbeth’
Act One: Three witches are in an open place, discussing how they’ll meet again before the sun sets, after Scotland wins a war they’re waging against Norway and Ireland, when they’ll meet Macbeth. (See...
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Detailed Synopsis for ‘The Taming of the Shrew’
Induction: Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker, rudely refuses to pay for his ale in an alehouse in England, annoying the hostess. He falls asleep at his chair. A lord and his men come to the alehouse...
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Detailed Synopsis of ‘Julius Caesar’
Act One: The citizens of Rome are celebrating Caesar’s defeat of Pompey, having Caesar’s statues “deck’d with ceremonies”. Flavius and Marullus, tribunes sympathetic to Pompey and annoyed with...
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Detailed Synopsis of ‘King Lear’
Act One: King Lear, an octogenarian monarch of pre-Christian England, has assembled all of his nobles to discuss the future rule of his kingdom after he relieves his aged self from its burdens....
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Detailed Synopsis of ‘Hamlet’
Act One: Bernardo relieves Francisco as night watch on the guard platform of Elsinore Castle in Denmark. It’s a cold night, and the threat of invasion looms in the air. Another night watchman,...
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Detailed Synopsis of ‘The Merchant of Venice’
Act One: Antonio, the merchant of Venice, tells Salerio and Solanio that he feels sad and wearied for reasons he can’t understand. His friends suggest that he’s worried about the ships carrying his...
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Detailed Synopsis of ‘Othello’
Act One: Iago and Roderigo are outside the house of Brabantio, Desdemona’s father, one night on a street in Venice. Roderigo expresses his displeasure at his (justified) belief that Iago has been...
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Detailed Synopsis for ‘Henry V’
Prologue: The Chorus wishes he and the actors of the play had ‘a Muse of fire’ to inspire them to a production that would do justice to the story about to be told. If only the small stage they are to...
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