Author:William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare - (1564 – 1616)

Works

[Note: The Text of some of these plays is also available at Wikibooks where study guides are being developed, and there is often a separate wiki-page for each of the scenes, for those who prefer or require that format of presentation]

The groupings below are based on the traditional ones followed by The Yale Shakespeare, and the titles used are from that compilation notwithstanding some apparent inconsistencies.

The dates given for each play are estimated, and often the matter of considerable dispute.

Tragedies

• The Life of Timon of Athens - 1607
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre - 1608 - only partly by Shakespeare
• The Tempest - 1611
• The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra - 1607
• The Tragedy of Coriolanus - 1608
• The Tragedy of Cymbeline - 1610
• The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - 1594
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - 1599
• The Tragedy of King Lear - 1605
• The Tragedy of Macbeth - 1606
• The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice - 1604
• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet - 1591
• The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus - 1592 - authorship disputed
• The Winter's Tale - 1610

Comedies

• All's Well That Ends Well - 1598
• As You Like It - 1598
• The Comedy of Errors - 1591
• Love's Labour's Lost - 1590
• Measure for Measure - 1604
• The Merchant of Venice - 1594
• The Merry Wives of Windsor - 1599
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - 1594
• Much Ado About Nothing - 1600
• The Taming of the Shrew - 1594
• Twelfth Night, or What You Will - 1599
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona - 1591

Histories

• The Life and Death of King John - 1596
• The Tragedy of King Richard the Second - 1597
• The Tragedy of Richard the Third, With the Landing of Earl Richmond and the Battle at Bosworth Field - 1593
• The First Part of King Henry the Fourth - 1597
• The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth - 1597
• The Life of Henry the Fifth - 1599
• The First Part of King Henry the Sixth - 1592
• The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth - 1593
• The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth - 1595
• The History of Troilus and Cressida - 1602
• The Life of King Henry the Eighth - 1613 - authorship disputed

Poems

• Amiens’ Song
• Ariel's Song
• Dawn Song
• Dirge of Love
• Fancy
• Fidele’s Dirge
• A Lover and His Lass
• A Lover's Complaint - 1609 - authenticity questioned
• Love’s Perjuries
• Lullaby
• A Madrigal
• O Mistress Mine
• Ophelia’s Song
• The Passionate Pilgrim - 1599
• The Phoenix and the Turtle - 1601
• The Rape of Lucrece - 1594
• A Sea Dirge
• Silvia
• The Sonnets - 1598
• Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music - 1599 - only one is unquestionably Shakespeare's
• Spring
• Take, O Take
• Under the Greenwood Tree
• Venus and Adonis - 1593
• Where the Bee Sucks
• Winter

Other

• Shakespeare's last will and testament

Lost and disputed works

• Cardenio (lost)
• Edward III (attributed)
• The Book of Sir Thomas More (attributed)
• Love's Labour's Wonne (lost, or given a different title)

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