by
The
map
above
shows
where
various
Shakespearean
plays
have
been
set,
based
on
modern
borders.
The
data
used
for
the
map
comes
from
this
List
of
settings
for
Shakespeare’s
plays
which
was
compiled
by
Laura
Estill.
The
full
list
is
below:
| Title | Genre | City |
Country (modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
The Comedy of Errors |
Comedy | Ephesus | Turkey |
|
The Taming of the Shrew |
Comedy | Padua | Italy |
|
The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
Comedy |
Verona, Milan |
Italy |
|
Love’s Labor’s Lost |
Comedy | Navarre | Spain |
|
A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
Comedy | Athens | Greece |
|
The Merchant of Venice |
Comedy | Venice | Italy |
|
The Merry Wives of Windsor |
Comedy | Windsor |
United Kingdom |
|
Much Ado About Nothing |
Comedy | Messina | Italy |
|
As You Like It |
Comedy | Arden |
Fictional country, sometimes considered to be in France |
|
Twelfth Night |
Comedy | Illyria |
Yugoslavia |
|
Troilus and Cressida |
Comedy | Troy | Turkey |
|
All’s Well That Ends Well |
Comedy |
Rossillion [Roussillion] |
France |
|
Measure for Measure |
Comedy | Vienna | Austria |
|
Henry VI, Part 1 |
History |
London (also Orleans, France) |
United Kingdom |
|
Henry VI, Part 2 |
History |
London (and other UK locations) |
United Kingdom |
|
Henry VI, Part 3 |
History |
London (also France) |
United Kingdom |
|
Richard III |
History | London |
United Kingdom |
|
King John |
History |
London (also France) |
United Kingdom |
|
Richard II |
History |
London (also Wales) |
United Kingdom |
|
Henry IV, Part 1 |
History |
London (also Wales) |
United Kingdom |
|
Henry IV, Part 2 |
History |
London (other UK locations) |
United Kingdom |
|
Henry V |
History |
London (other UK locations) |
United Kingdom |
|
Henry VIII |
History |
London (other UK locations) |
United Kingdom |
|
Titus Andronicus |
Tragedy | Rome | Italy |
|
Romeo and Juliet |
Tragedy |
Verona (other UK locations) |
Italy |
|
Julius Caesar |
Tragedy |
Rome (other Italian locations) |
Italy |
|
Hamlet |
Tragedy |
Elsinore Castle |
Denmark |
|
Othello |
Tragedy | Venice | Italy |
|
King Lear |
Tragedy | Britain |
mythic pre-Christian Britain |
|
Macbeth |
Tragedy |
Inverness (other Scottish locations; British locations) |
Scotland |
|
Antony and Cleopatra |
Tragedy | Alexandria |
Egypt (spans three continents: also Rome, Messina, Syria, other places in the Roman Empire (including the sea) |
|
Coriolanus |
Tragedy |
Rome (also Corioles, Antium) |
Italy |
|
Timon of Athens |
Tragedy | Athens | Greece |
|
Pericles |
Romance |
Tyre (other Mediterannean locations including Antioch, Tharsus, Pentapolis, Mytilene, others) |
Lebanon |
|
Cymbeline |
Romance | Britain |
mythic pre-Christian Britain; also Italy |
|
The Winter’s Tale |
Romance | Sicilia |
Italy (also Bohemia) |
|
The Tempest |
Romance |
(Fictional island) |
(Fictional country) |
|
The Two Noble Kinsmen |
Romance |
Athens (also Thebes) |
Greece |
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