This text contains a comprehensive A-Z list of all Shakespeare’s plays, all of the characters in those plays, as well as persons and places mentioned in the plays; the principal actors, acting companies, and theatres of the time; other playwrights, writers and historical figures of Elizabethan times important to Shakespeare’s works; contemporary writings that mentioned Shakespeare and entries for those people to whom Shakespeare’s plays have been attributed; and the various theories put forward as to his true identity .