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Shakespeare's Plays

Notes on Iambic Pentameter

Chronology & Play Synopses

Approximate Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays

Click on the name of a play to open a short synopsis in a new window.

FIRST PERFORMED	PLAY	FIRST PRINTED
1590-91	Henry VI, Part II	1594?
1590-91	Henry VI, Part III	1594?
1591-1592	Henry VI, Part I	1623
1592-93	Richard III	1597
1592-93	The Comedy of Errors	1623
1593-94	Titus Andronicus	1594
1593-94	The Taming of the Shrew	1623
1594-95	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	1623
1594-95	Love's Labour's Lost	1598?
1594-95	Romeo and Juliet	1597
1595-96	Richard II	1597
1595-96	A Midsummer Night's Dream	1600
1596-97	King John	1623
1596-97	The Merchant of Venice	1600
1597-98	Henry IV, Part I	1598
1597-98	Henry IV, Part II	1600
1598-99	Much Ado About Nothing	1600
1598-99	Henry V	1600
1599-1600	Julius Caesar	1623
1599-1600	As You Like It	1623
1599-1600	Twelfth Night	1623
1600-01	Hamlet	1603
1600-01	The Merry Wives of Windsor	1602
1601-02	Troilus and Cressida	1609
1602-03	All's Well That Ends Well	1623
1604-05	Measure for Measure	1623
1604-05	Othello	1622
1605-06	King Lear	1608
1605-06	Macbeth	1623
1606-07	Antony and Cleopatra	1623
1607-08	Coriolanus	1623
1607-08	Timon of Athens	1623
1608-09	Pericles	1609
1609-10	Cymbeline	1623
1610-11	The Winter's Tale	1623
1611-12	The Tempest	1623
1612-13	Henry VIII	1623
1612-13	The Two Noble Kinsmen*	1634

*The Two Noble Kinsmen is listed as one of Shakespeare's plays because most scholars believe it to be a collaborative work of Shakespeare and John Fletcher, who was a prominent actor and Shakespeare's close friend. Fletcher succeeded Shakespeare as the foremost dramatist for the King's Men.

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