List of Shakespeare's works

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) [cite book |last=Schoenbaum |first=Samuel |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life |year=1975 |publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=24-26 and 296 |location= |isbn=0195051610 ] was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately ref label|Playcount|I| 38 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems.

Plays

Tragedies

Histories

Notes

1. Note|Playcount The exact figures cannot be known. See Shakespearean authorship, Shakespeare's collaborations and Shakespeare Apocrypha for further details.
2. Note|ComedyofErrors The identical dates may not be coincidental; the Pauline and Ephesian aspect of the play, noted under Sources, may have had the effect of linking "The Comedy of Errors" to the holiday season—much like "Twelfth Night," another play secular on its surface but linked to the Christmas holidays.
3. Note|Cymbeline There is a performance mentioned in the "Book of Plays" of Simon Forman; even if it is genuine (not all commentators think it is), the "Book of Plays" reference is undated and lacks specific information.
4. Note|Cymbeline2 The Yale Shakespeare edition suggests this was a collaborative work; some scenes (Act III scene 7 and Act V scene 2) may seem less characteristic of Shakespeare than the rest of the play.

5. Note|Badquarto A "bad quarto" was a version of a play that was not the official version from the playwright themselves; often these versions were written down during a performance and printed later, leading to great inaccuracies in the text.
6. Note|3HenryVI Since "Henry VI, part 3" was also acted in 1592 — Robert Greene parodied one of its lines in his 1592 pamphlet "A Groatsworth of Wit" — the implication is that all three parts of the trilogy were being acted in 1592.

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