William Shakespeare

April 23?, 1564 - April 23, 1616

Plays

Shakespeare, William,

Histories:
--Henry VI, 1589-1592. (in three parts)
--Richard III, 1592-1593. (some scenes may have been written by Christopher Marlowe)
--Richard II, 1594-1595.
--King John, 1596-1597.
--Henry IV, Part I, 1597.
--Henry IV, Part II, 1598.
--Henry V, 1599.
--Henry VIII, 1612-1613. (possibly with John Fletcher)

Tragedies:
--Titus Andronicus, 1593-1594. (Shakespeare's worst play)
--Romeo and Juliet, 1594-1595. (Shakespeare's first great play)
--Julius Caesar, 1599.
--Hamlet, 1600-1601. (Shakespeare's own favorite of his plays)
--Troilus and Cressida, 1600-1602.
--Othello, The Moor of Venice, 1602.
--King Lear, 1605-1606. (regarded as Shakespeare's greatest play)
--Macbeth, 1606. (parts probably in collaboration with Thomas Middleton)
--Antony and Cleopatra, 1607-1608.
--Coriolanus, 1607-1609.
--Timon of Athens, 1607-1609.

Comedies:
--The Comedy of Errors, 1592-1593.
--The Taming of the Shrew, 1593-1594.
--The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1594-1595.
--Love's Labour's Lost, 1593-1595.
--A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1594-1595.
--The Merchant of Venice, 1595-1596.
--Much Ado About Nothing, 1598.
--As You Like It, 1599-1600.
--The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1599-1601.
--Twelfth Night, or What You Will, 1600-1601.
--All's Well That Ends Well, 1601-1604.
--Measure for Measure, 1604.
--The Tempest, 1611-1612. (Shakespeare's last comedy)
--The Two Noble Kinsmen, 1612-1613. (probably by John Fletcher with Shakespeare's influence)

Romances:
--Pericles, 1608-1609. (Acts III-V probably by Shakespeare)
--Cymbeline, 1610.
--The Winter's Tale, 1610-1611.

Poetry

Shakespeare, William,
--Venus and Adonis, 1593.
--The Rape of Lucrece, 1594.
--The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599.
--The Phoenix and the Turtle, 1601.
--Sonnets, 1609.

Sources of Biographical and Bibliographical Information

Harrison, G. B. (ed.), in Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1952.

Ashley, Mike,
--Shakespeare's Mysteries, in Shakespearean Whodunnits, Carroll & Graf, New York, 1997. ISBN: 0-7867-0482-9

Marston, Edward,
--Introduction, in Shakespearean Detectives, Carroll & Graf, New York, 1998. ISBN: 0-7867-0596-5

Doyle, John, and Ray Lischner,
--Shakespeare for Dummies, IDG Books Worldwide, Foster City, GA, 1999. ISBN: 0-7645-5135-3

Web Site

Speculation


Possible ghostwriters of Shakespeare's works:
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604)

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