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Countries That Have Been A Setting In A Shakespearean Play

Map created by reddit user dphayteeyl
The map above shows where various Shakespearean plays have been set, based on modern borders.

The data used for the map comes from this List of settings for Shakespeare’s plays which was compiled by Laura Estill.

The full list is below:

TitleGenreCityCountry (modern)
The Comedy of ErrorsComedyEphesusTurkey
The Taming of the ShrewComedyPaduaItaly
The Two Gentlemen of VeronaComedyVerona, MilanItaly
Love's Labor's LostComedyNavarreSpain
A Midsummer Night's DreamComedyAthensGreece
The Merchant of VeniceComedyVeniceItaly
The Merry Wives of WindsorComedyWindsorUnited Kingdom
Much Ado About NothingComedyMessinaItaly
As You Like ItComedyArdenFictional country, sometimes considered to be in France
Twelfth NightComedyIllyriaYugoslavia
Troilus and CressidaComedyTroyTurkey
All's Well That Ends WellComedyRossillion [Roussillion]France
Measure for MeasureComedyViennaAustria
Henry VI, Part 1HistoryLondon (also Orleans, France)United Kingdom
Henry VI, Part 2HistoryLondon (and other UK locations)United Kingdom
Henry VI, Part 3HistoryLondon (also France)United Kingdom
Richard IIIHistoryLondonUnited Kingdom
King JohnHistoryLondon (also France)United Kingdom
Richard IIHistoryLondon (also Wales)United Kingdom
Henry IV, Part 1HistoryLondon (also Wales)United Kingdom
Henry IV, Part 2HistoryLondon (other UK locations)United Kingdom
Henry VHistoryLondon (other UK locations)United Kingdom
Henry VIIIHistoryLondon (other UK locations)United Kingdom
Titus AndronicusTragedyRomeItaly
Romeo and JulietTragedyVerona (other UK locations)Italy
Julius CaesarTragedyRome (other Italian locations)Italy
HamletTragedyElsinore CastleDenmark
OthelloTragedyVeniceItaly
King LearTragedyBritainmythic pre-Christian Britain
MacbethTragedyInverness (other Scottish locations; British locations)Scotland
Antony and CleopatraTragedyAlexandriaEgypt (spans three continents: also Rome, Messina, Syria, other places in the Roman Empire (including the sea)
CoriolanusTragedyRome (also Corioles, Antium)Italy
Timon of AthensTragedyAthensGreece
PericlesRomanceTyre (other Mediterannean locations including Antioch, Tharsus, Pentapolis, Mytilene, others)Lebanon
CymbelineRomanceBritainmythic pre-Christian Britain; also Italy
The Winter's TaleRomanceSiciliaItaly (also Bohemia)
The TempestRomance(Fictional island)(Fictional country)
The Two Noble KinsmenRomanceAthens (also Thebes)Greece

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  1. I prefer to embrace the theory that Prospero’s island in The Tempest is actually set in the Bermuda islands, even if the specific island itself is imaginary, making it the only Shakespeare play set in the Americas.

    As they say, you could look it up.

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