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William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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William Shakespeare

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 are often the matter of considerable dispute.

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
• The Tempest – 1611
• The Winter's Tale – 1610

Tragedies

• The History of Troilus and Cressida – 1602
• The Life of Timon of Athens – 1607
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre – 1608 – only partly by Shakespeare
• The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra – 1607
  • The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, 1920 – R. H. Chase's edition
• The Tragedy of Coriolanus – 1608
  • The Tragedy of Coriolanus, 1905 – Edmund K. Chambers' edition
• The Tragedy of Cymbeline – 1610
• The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark – 1599
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar – 1599
  • The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, 1919 – Yale's edition
• The Tragedy of King Lear – 1605
• The Tragedy of Macbeth – 1606
  • First Folio edition
• 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 Two Noble Kinsmen – c. 1613–1614 – co-authored with John Fletcher

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 Life of King Henry the Eighth – 1613 – authorship disputed

Poems

• Amiens’ Song
• Ariel's Song
• Dawn Song
• Dirge of Love
• Fancy
• Fidele’s Dirge
• Ingratitude
• A Lover and His Lass
• A Lover's Complaint – 1609 – authorship disputed
• 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
• The Rugged Pyrrhus
• 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)

Collections

• First Folio – prepared by John Heminges and Henry Condell in 1623

Works about Shakespeare and his works

• Hamlet and His Problems by T. S. Eliot
• Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
• “Shakespeare, William,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• “Hero (Shakespeare),” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Shakespeare, William” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Shakespeare, William” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “The Religion of Shakespeare,” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.
• Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
• "Shakespeare as a Man" in Studies of a Biographer' vol. 4 by Leslie Stephen

Transcription projects

• Index:Romeo and Juliet (The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1847).djvu
• Shakespeare's comedy of A midsummer-night's dream, 1914. (page scan index)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.