AUTHOR'S WORKS

Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (38 if you include The Two Noble Kinsmen) over a 20-year period, from about 1590 to 1610. It's difficult to determine the exact dates when many were written, but scholars have made the following intelligent guesses about his plays and poems:

PLAYS

1588-93 The Comedy of Errors

1588-94 Love's Labor's Lost

1590-91 2 Henry VI

1590-91 3 Henry VI

1591-92 1 Henry VI

1592-93 Richard III

1592-94 Titus Andronicus

1593-94 The Taming of the Shrew

1593-95 The Two Gentlemen of Verona

1594-96 Romeo and Juliet

1595 Richard II

1594-96 A Midsummer Night's Dream

1596-97 King John

1596-97 The Merchant of Venice

1597 1 Henry IV

1597-98 2 Henry IV

1598-1600 Much Ado About Nothing

1598-99 Henry V

1599 Julius Caesar

1599-1600 As You Like It

1599-1600 Twelfth Night

1600-01 Hamlet

1597-1601 The Merry Wives of Windsor

1601-02 Troilus and Cressida

1602-04 All's Well That Ends Well

1603-04 Othello

1604 Measure for Measure

1605-06 King Lear

1605-06 Macbeth

1606-07 Antony and Cleopatra

1605-08 Timon of Athens

1607-09 Coriolanus

1608-09 Pericles

1609-10 Cymbeline

1610-11 The Winter's Tale

1611-12 The Tempest

1612-13 Henry VIII

POEMS

1592 Venus and Adonis

1593-94 The Rape of Lucrece

1593-1600 Sonnets

1600-01 The Phoenix and the Turtle

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