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Shakespeare

Master List

 


 

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Plays (37) 

All’s Well That Ends Well

Antony and Cleopatra

As You Like It

Comedy of Errors

Coriolanus

Cymbeline

Hamlet

Henry IV Part 1

Henry IV Part 2

Henry V

Henry VI Part 1

Henry VI Part 2

Henry VI Part 3

Henry VIII

Julius Caesar

King John

King Lear

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Macbeth

Measure for Measure

Merchant of Venice

Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Richard II

Richard III

Romeo and Juliet

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest -- A being with total control of nature is confronted with his own traumas that cannot be healed with force. Are intelligence and power enough to resolve human suffering?

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus

Troilus and Cressida

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Twelfth Night

The Winter’s Tale

 

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Narrative poems

Venus and Adonis (1593)

The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601, in an anthology with the works of others)

 

Lost or partly lost works

Cardenio -- (a lost play, likely co-written with John Fletcher, based on Don Quixote)

Other early or “missing” plays sometimes hypothesized, but not securely identifiable

 

Collaborative plays

The Two Noble Kinsmen (with Fletcher)

Parts of Henry VIII, Timon of Athens, and possibly Macbeth show collaboration or revision layers

 

Apocryphal or disputed works

Sir Thomas More (he may have contributed a scene)

Arden of Faversham (disputed)

Several others in the “Shakespeare Apocrypha”

 

Minor poetry and miscellaneous writing

Occasional poetic passages embedded in his own plays

Dedications and prefatory material (not extensive independent essays or treatises)

 

 

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