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Works
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
- The Tempest – 1611
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will – 1599
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona – 1591
- 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 (transcription project)
- The Tragedy of Coriolanus – 1608
- The Tragedy of Cymbeline – 1610
- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark – 1599
- The Tragedy of Julius Caesar – 1599
- The Tragedy of King Lear – 1605
- The Tragedy of Macbeth – 1606
- The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice – 1604
- The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet – 1591
- The Illustrated Shakespeare edition 1847
- The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Dowden) ed. Edward Dowden, published Methuen 1900
- The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus – 1592 – authorship disputed (transcription project)
- The Two Noble Kinsmen – c. 1613–1614 – co-authored with John Fletcher
Histories
- The Raigne of King Edward the Third — Published 1597. Commonly attributed partly to Shakespeare, partly to Thomas Kyd.
- The Life and Death of King John – 1596
- The Tragedy of King Richard the Second – 1595
- 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 Tragedy of Richard the Third – 1593
- The Life of King Henry the Eighth – 1613 – authorship disputed
Poems
- Amiens’ Song
- Ariel's Song (Come unto these yellow sands)
- Ariel's Song (Where the Bee sucks)
- 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 – 1609
- 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
Lost and disputed works
Plays
- Cardenio (lost)
- Edward III (attributed)
- The Book of Sir Thomas More (attributed)
- Love's Labour's Wonne (lost, or given a different title)
- The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine (attributed)
- Sir John Oldcastle (attributed)
- Thomas Lord Cromwell (attributed)
- The London Prodigal (attributed)
- The Puritan (attributed)
- A Yorkshire Tragedy (attributed)
Poems
- Shall I die? (attributed)
- To the Queen by the players (attributed)
- Epitaph on Elias James (attributed)
- Epitaphs on John Combe (attributed)
Collections
- First Folio – prepared by John Heminges and Henry Condell in 1623
- 1910 edition (transcription project)
- 1623 edition (transcription project)
- Portal:The Warwick Shakespeare (1839-1938)
- Portal:The Yale Shakespeare (1917–1927)
Works about Shakespeare
Biographical articles
- "Shakespeare, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "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, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
- "Shakespeare as a Man" in Studies of a Biographer vol. 4 by Leslie Stephen
Literary analysis
- Hamlet and His Problems by T. S. Eliot
- "Hero (Shakespeare)," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain (1909)
- "The Importance of The Ghost in Hamlet" by William Strunk, Jr. (1910)
- Characters of Shakespear's Plays by William Hazlitt (1817)
- "Macbeth, and King Richard the Third" by John Philip Kemble (1817)
- "Shakespeare in the Class-Room" by Theodore Dwight Weld (1886)
- "Hamlet," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Midsummer Night's Dream," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Midsummer Night's Dream, A," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- Tales from Shakspeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
- "Tolstoy and Shakespeare" by George Orwell (1941)
- "Shakespeare" in General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
Poetry
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