WILLIAM

SHAKESPEARE

1564-1616

Plays as presented in the first folio of 1623

Comedies

Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merry Wives of Windsor (c. 1597)
Measure for Measure 2
The Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
A Midsummer Night's Dream (mid-1590s)
The Merchant of Venice (c. 594/7)2
As You Like It
Taming of the Shrew (1594)
All's Well That Ends Well
Twelfth Night or What You Will (c. 1600)
The Winter's Tale 1
Cymbeline 1
The Tempest  (1611)1
Pericles, Prince of Tyre 3
The Two Noble Kinsmen 3

Histories

King John
Richard II
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Richard III (1592)
Henry VIII
 

Tragedies

Troilus and Cressida 2
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet (1597/9)
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar (1599)
Macbeth (1606)
Hamlet (c. 1601)
King Lear (1605)
Othello(1603/4)
Antony and Cleopatra


1 now commonly referred to as "Romances"
2 sometimes referred to as "Problem Plays"
3 not included in the First Folio


The Shakespearian Sonnets

Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Lover's Complaint

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