List of settings for Shakespeare's plays

This article is about the settings of Shakespeare's plays, for the main article regarding this topic, see William Shakespeare's plays and William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation). Please note that this article differs from the cataloging reference article List of Shakespeare's plays.

The following list of places that serve as the settings for all of Shakespeare's plays was compiled by Laura Estill, Assistant Professor at Texas A & M University.

# in Riverside	Title	Genre	City	Country (modern)	Note
1	[[The Comedy of Errors|The Comedy of Errors		Ephesus	Turkey
2	The Taming of the Shrew		Padua	Italy
3	[[The Two Gentlemen of Verona|The Two Gentlemen of Verona		Verona	Italy	also Milan
4	Love's Labor's Lost		Navarre	Spain
5	A Midsummer Night's Dream		Athens	Greece
6	The Merchant of Venice		Venice	Italy
7	The Merry Wives of Windsor		Windsor	United Kingdom
8	Much Ado About Nothing		Messina	Italy
9	As You Like It		Arden	fictional	sometimes considered to be in France
Twelfth Night		Illyria	Yugoslavia
11	Troilus and Cressida		Troy	Turkey
12	All's Well That Ends Well		Rossillion [Roussillion]	France	also Paris, Marseilles, and Florence
13	Measure for Measure		Vienna	Austria
14	Henry VI, Part 1		London	United Kingdom	also Orleans, France
15	Henry VI, Part 2		London	United Kingdom	other UK locations
16	Henry VI, Part 3		London	United Kingdom	also France
17	Richard III		London	United Kingdom
18	King John		London	United Kingdom	also France
19	Richard II		London	United Kingdom	also Wales
20	Henry IV, Part 1		London	United Kingdom	also Wales
21	Henry IV, Part 2		London	United Kingdom	other UK locations
22	Henry V		London	United Kingdom	other UK locations; also France
23	Henry VIII		London	United Kingdom	other UK locations
24	Titus Andronicus		Rome	Italy
25	Romeo and Juliet		Verona	Italy	also Mantua
26	Julius Caesar		Rome	Italy	other Italian locations
27	Hamlet		Elsinore Castle	Denmark
28	Othello		Venice	Italy
29	King Lear		Britain	mythic pre-Christian Britain
30	Macbeth		Inverness	Scotland	other Scottish locations; British locations
31	Antony and Cleopatra		Alexandria	Egypt	spans three continents: also Rome, Messina, Syria, other places in the Roman Empires (including the sea)
32	Coriolanus		Rome	Italy	also Corioles, Antium
33	Timon of Athens		Athens	Greece
34	Pericles		Tyre	Lebanon	other Mediterannean locations including Antioch, Tharsus, Pentapolis, Mytilene, others
35	Cymbeline		Britain	mythic pre-Christian Britain; also Italy
36	The Winter's Tale		Sicilia	Italy	also Bohemia
37	The Tempest		fictional island
38	The Two Noble Kinsmen		Athens	Greece	also Thebes