William Shakespeare
Critique • Authorship • Works • Histories • Critics • Parodies
Born
Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1564
Died
Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1616
Publications
Plays, poems
Genres
Literary, tragedy, comedy, historical, romance, fantasy
Writing language
English
Country
England
Literature
• Richard III (c.1592)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1594)
• Romeo and Juliet (c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part 1 (c.1597)
• Henry IV, Part 2 (c.1597)
• The Merchant of Venice (c.1597)
• Julius Caesar (1599)
• Henry V (c.1599)
• Hamlet (1601)
• Twelfth Night (1601–1602)
• Othello (1604)
• Macbeth (c.1606)
• King Lear (c.1606)
• Sonnets (c.1609)
• The Tempest (1611)
Plays
• The Taming of the Shrew (c.1591)
• Richard III (c.1592)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1594)
• Richard II (1597)
• Romeo and Juliet (c.1596)
• Love's Labour's Lost (1597)
• Henry IV, Part 1 (1597)
• Henry IV, Part 2 (1597)
• The Merchant of Venice (c.1597)
• Much Ado About Nothing (1598–1599)
• As You Like It (1599)
• Henry V (1599)
• Julius Caesar (1599)
• Hamlet (1601)
• Twelfth Night (1601–1602)
• Measure for Measure (1604)
• Othello (1604)
• Macbeth (c.1606)
• King Lear (c.1606)
• Coriolanus (c.1603)
• The Winter's Tale (1611)
• The Tempest (1611)
• Henry VIII (1613)
Poems
• "A Fairy Song" (1594)
• "All the World's a Stage" (1594)
• "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" (1609)
• "When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes" (1609)
• "When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought" (1609)
• "That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold" (1609)
• "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" (1609)
• "The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame" (1609)
• "My Mistress's Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun" (1609)
Poetry Collections
• Sonnets (c.1609)
British Literature
• The Taming of the Shrew (c.1591)
• Richard III (c.1592)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1594)
• Richard II (1597)
• Romeo and Juliet (c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part 1 (c.1597)
• Love's Labour's Lost (1597)
• Henry IV, Part 2 (c.1597)
• The Merchant of Venice (c.1597)
• As You Like It (1599)
• Julius Caesar (1599)
• Much And About Nothing (1599)
• Henry V (c.1599)
• Hamlet (1601)
• Twelfth Night (1601–1602)
• Measure for Measure (1604)
• Othello (1604)
• Macbeth (c.1606)
• King Lear (c.1606)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1607)
• Coriolanus (c.1608)
• Sonnets (c.1609)
• The Winter's Tale (1611)
• The Tempest (1611)
• Henry VIII (1613)
Fantasy Literature
• The Tempest (1611)
Humour and Fantasy
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1596)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (1599)
Literary Fiction
• Richard III (c.1592)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1596)
• Romeo and Juliet (c.1596)
• Henry IV, Part 1 (1597)
• Henry IV, Part 2 (1597)
• The Merchant of Venice (c.1597)
• Julius Caesar (1599)
• Hamlet (1601)
• Twelfth Night (1601–1602)
• Othello (1604)
• Macbeth (c.1606)
• King Lear (c.1606)
• The Tempest (1611)
Romance Literature
• Romeo and Juliet (c.1596)
• Twelfth Night (1601–1602)
Works published in book form
Titus Andronicus, play (authorship questioned, possibly written by George Peel all or in part), written c.1588–1593, performed 1593, published 1594
Two Gentlemen of Verona, written c.1589–1593, performed c.1598, published 1623
The Comedy of Errors, play, written c.1589–1594, performed 1594, published 1623
"A Lover's Complaint", poem, written 1590, published 1609 with Sonnets
Henry VI, Part 2, play, written c.1590–1592, performed 1592, published 1594
Henry VI, Part 3, play, written c.1590–1592, performed 1592, published 1595
The Taming of the Shrew, play, written c.1590–1592, performed 1594, published 1594
Henry VI, Part 1, play (full authorship questioned), written as prequel to what became known as Parts 2 and 3, written c.1591–1592, performed 1592, published 1623
Edward III, play (authorship questioned), written c.1592–1595, performed 1590s, published 1596
Richard III, play, written c.1592–1596, performed 1597, published 1597
Venus and Adonis, narrative poem, published 1593
The Rape of Lucrece, narrative poem, published 1594
Love's Labour's Lost, play, written c.1594–1595, performed 1597, published 1598
A Midsummer Night's Dream, play, written c.1594–1595, performed 1594–1596, published 1623
King John, play, written c.1594–1597, first performance unknown, published 1623
Richard II, play, written 1595, performed 1595, published 1597
Romeo and Juliet, play, written 1595–1596, first performance unknown, published 1597
The Merchant of Venice, play, written c.1596–1597, performed 1605, published 1600
Henry IV, Part 1, play, written c.1596–1597, performed c.1597, published 1598
Henry IV, Part 2, play, written 1596–1598, first performance unknown, published 1600
The Merry Wives of Windsor, play, written 1596–1598, first performance unknown, published 1602
Much Ado About Nothing, play, written c.1598–1599, first performance unknown, published 1600
Henry V, play, written 1599, performed 1599, published 1600
Julius Caesar, play, written 1599, performed 1599, published 1623
As You Like It, play, written c.1599–1600, performed 1603, published 1623
"The Phoenix and the Turtle", poem, written c.1599–1601, published 1601 in a poetry collection
Hamlet, play, written c.1599–1602, performed 1602, published 1603
Twelfth Night, play, written c.1601–1602, performed 1602, published 1623
Troilus and Cressida, play, written 1602, first performance unknown, , published 1609
Measure for Measure, play, written c.1602–1604, performed 1604, published 1623
All's Well that Ends Well, play, written c.1602–1607, performed unknown, published 1623
Othello, play, written c.1603–1604, performed 1604, published 1622
King Lear, play, written c.1603–1606, performed 1606, published 1608
Macbeth, play, written c.1603–1607, performed unknown, published 1623
Timon of Athens, play (full authorship questioned), written c.1605–1609, first performance unknown, , published 1623
Anthony and Cleopatra, play, written c.1606–1607, first performance unknown, published 1623
Coriolanus, play, written c.1608–1609, first performance unknown, published 1623
Pericles, play (full authorship questioned), written c.1607–1610, first performance unknown, , published 1623
Shakespeare's Sonnets, poems, written c.1598, published 1609
Cymbeline, play, written c.1609–1611, performed 1611, published 1623
The Winter's Tale, play, written c.1610–1611, performed 1611, published 1623
The Tempest, play, written c.1610–1611, performed 1611, published 1623
Henry VIII, or All Is True, play with John Fletcher, written c.1612–1613, performed 1613, published 1623
Cardenio, play with John Fletcher, written c.1612–1613, performed 1613, never published as lost
The Two Noble Kinsmen, play with John Fletcher, written c.1613–1614, first performance unknown, , published 1634.
Critique • Authorship • Works • Histories • Critics • Parodies
