Shakespeare: Settings

For most of the information on this page I am indebted to Folgerpedia (the collaboratively–edited encyclopedia of the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, DC – the world's largest Shakespeare collection).

	Title	Style		City (etc.)		Modern country		Other / Notes
	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy		Roussillion		France / Spain
	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy		Alexandria		Egypt
	As You Like It	Comedy		Arden		(Fictional country)
	The Comedy of Errors	Comedy		Ephesus		Turkey
	Coriolanus	Tragedy		Rome		Italy
	Cymbeline	Romance		Britain
	Hamlet	Tragedy		Elsinore Castle		Denmark
	Henry IV, Part 1	History		London		England		Wales
	Henry IV, Part 2	History		London		England
	Henry V	History		London		England
	Henry VI, Part 1	History		London		England		Orleans
	Henry VI, Part 2	History		London		England
	Henry VI, Part 3	History		London		England		France
	Henry VIII	History		London		England
	Julius Caesar	Tragedy		Rome		Italy
	King John	History		London		England		France
	King Lear	Tragedy		Britain
	Love's Labour's Lost	Comedy		Navarre		Spain
	Macbeth	Tragedy		Inverness		Scotland
	Measure for Measure	Comedy		Vienna		Austria
	The Merchant of Venice	Comedy		Venice		Italy
	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy		Windsor		England
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy		Athens		Greece
	Much Ado About Nothing	Comedy		Messina		Italy
	Othello	Tragedy		Venice		Italy
	Pericles	Romance		Tyre		Lebanon
	Richard II	History		London		England		Wales
	Richard III	History		London		England
	Romeo and Juliet	Tragedy		Verona		Italy		Mantua
	The Taming of the Shrew	Comedy		Padua		Italy
	The Tempest	Romance		(Fictional island)		(Fictional country)
	Timon of Athens	Tragedy		Athens		Greece
	Titus Andronicus	Tragedy		Rome		Italy
	Troilus and Cressida	Comedy		Troy		Turkey
	Twelfth Night	Comedy		Illyria		Yugoslavia
	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	Comedy		Verona		Italy		Milan
	The Two Noble Kinsmen	Romance		Athens		Greece		Thebes
	The Winter's Tale	Romance		Sicilia		Italy		Bohemia

© Haydn Thompson 2020–1