Shakespeare's Settings

"All’s Well that Ends Well"
Setting: Rousillon, Paris, Florence, and Marseilles

"As You Like It"
Setting: Forest of Arden

"The Comedy of Errors"
Setting: Ephesus

"Cymbeline"
Setting: Britain, Italy

"Love’s Labour’s Lost"
Setting: Navarre

"Measure for Measure"
Setting: Vienna

"The Merchant of Venice"
Setting: Partly in Venice, and partly at Belmont, the seat of Portia on the Continent

"The Merry Wives of Windsor"
Setting: Windsor

"A Midsummer Night’s Dream"
Setting: Athens, and a wood nearby

"Much Ado about Nothing"
Setting: Messina

"The Taming of the Shrew"
Setting: Sometimes in Padua, and sometimes in Petruchio's home in the country

"The Tempest"
Setting: The Sea; afterwards an Island

"The Two Gentlemen of Verona"
Setting: Verona, Milan, and the frontiers of Mantua

"Troilus and Cressida"
Setting: Troy

"Twelfth Night"
Setting: A city in Illyria, and the sea-coast nearby

"The Winter’s Tale"
Setting: Sometimes in Sicilia, sometimes in Bohemia