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Study Guides
From A Midsummer Night's Dream to You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, you can find just about everything you need on these pages.

The articles in these study guides are not meant to mirror or interpret any particular productions at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. They are meant, instead, to be an educational jumping-off point to understanding and enjoying the play (in any production at any theatre) a bit more thoroughly. Therefore the stories of the plays and the interpretative articles (and even characters at times) may differ from what is ultimately produced on stage.

Also, some of these articles (especially the synopses) reveal the ending and other "surprises" in some plays. If you don't want to know this information before seeing the plays, you may want to reconsider studying the information in this section.

Plays by Shakespeare

Plays by Other Playwrights

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• All's Well That Ends Well
• Antony and Cleopatra
• As You Like It
• Coriolanus
• Cymbeline
• Hamlet
• Henry IV, Part One
• Henry V
• Henry VI, Parts One, Two, and Three
  (The War of the Roses)
• Henry VIII
• Julius Caesar
• King John
• King Lear
• Love's Labour's Lost
• Macbeth
• Measure for Measure
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Othello
• Pericles
• Richard II
• Richard III
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Comedy of Errors
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Winter's Tale
• Timon of Athens
• Titus Andronicus
• Troilus and Cressida
• Twelfth Night

• 1776
• A Flea in Her Ear
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Ah, Wilderness!
• Around the World in 80 Days
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• 'Art'
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Blithe Spirit
• Born Yesterday
• Camelot
• Candida
• Charley's Aunt
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Damn Yankees
• Death of a Salesman
• Doctor Faustus
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Forever Plaid
• Ghosts
• Harvey
• Hay Fever
• H.M.S. Pinafore
• I Hate Hamlet
• Johnny Guitar
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical
• Man of La Mancha
• Misalliance
• Morning's at Seven
• My Fair Lady
• Noises Off!
• On Golden Pond
• Our Town
• Peg o' My Heart
• Peter Pan
• Pippin
• Relative Values
• Room Service
• Stones in His Pockets
• Tartuffe
• The Boy Friend
• The Cherry Orchard
• The Fantasticks
• The Foreigner
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• The Lion in Winter
• The Matchmaker
• The Mikado
• The Mousetrap
• The Pirates of Penzance
• The Royal Family
• The School for Wives
• The Servant of Two Masters
• The Shoemaker's Holiday
• The Spitfire Grill
• The Three Musketeers
• Volpone
• Waiting for Godot
• You Can't Take It with You
• You Never Can Tell
• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown