Servants, labourers, and tradesmen hardly appear at all and when she goes beyond the gentry to characters bordering on the aristocracy she satirizes them, as she does with Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice.Įach character of a particular personality type is unique. She knew only a narrow social class and her novels are populated with people like those she encountered in her daily life – the landed gentry. Her characters are the result of her closely observing the society around her. They are three-dimensional and in spite of the sometimes melodramatic story of Pride and Prejudice the reader is never put out because the characters in those often absurd situations are real, and like real people, they frequently surprise us in the way they react.Ĭreating three-dimensional characters is Jane Austen’s greatest talent. The rounded, realistic characters in Pride and Prejudice are like real people. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale

This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.

Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.

Pride and prejudice characters