List of works by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare ( 1564 - 1616 ) - English poet and playwright , who wrote about ^[1] 37 plays and 154 sonnets , as well as several other poetic works .

Tragedies, comedies, chronicles


No	Russian name	original name	Creation Date	First publication	Scene	The basis of the plot	Sources (if available)
*The Tragedies of William Shakespeare*
one	Titus Andronicus	Titus andronicus			Rome and its environs
2	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo and Juliet	1595 - 1596	1597	Verona and Mantua
3	Julius Caesar	Julius caesar	1599	First folio , 1623	Rome , Sard neighborhood, Philip neighborhood
four	Hamlet	Hamlet	1600 - 1601	The so-called " bad quarto " 1603 . Twice as large text - in the "good" quarto 1604	Elsinore
five	Othello	Othello	1604		Venice , Cyprus		Novella Giraldi Chintio "Venetian Moor" (from the collection "Hecatommithi")
6	King Lear	King learning	1605 - 1606	1608	Britannia
7	Macbeth	Macbeth	1606	First folio , 1623	Scotland , England	Macbeth's treacherous seizure of power and his death from the forces of the legitimate heir to the throne	Holinshed's Chronicles
eight	Anthony and Cleopatra	Antony and Cleopatra	Usually called 1607 , but some experts consider it more correct 1603 - 1604	First folio , 1623		Love Mark Antony and Cleopatra	Biography of Mark Antony in Plutarch's " Comparative Biographies " in T. North's Translation
9	Coriolan	Coriolanus	1607 - 1608	First folio , 1623	Rome and its environs, Corioli and their environs, Ancium		"Comparative biographies" Plutarch
ten	Troilus and Cressida	Troilus and Cressida	1608	1609	Troy and the Greek camp during the siege of Troy
eleven	Timon of Athens	Timon of athens	1608	First folio , 1623	Athens and surrounding forests		“Comparative biographies” of Plutarch ; collection of works by Painter "Palace of Delights" (1566); Lucian's "Misanthrope" (in French)

Comedy


No	Russian name	original name	date of creation	First publication	Scene	Sources (if available)
William Shakespeare Comedy
one	The end is a crown	All's Well That Ends Well	1601 - 1608	First folio , 1623	France and Tuscany
2	How do you like it	As you like it	1599 - 1600	First folio , 1623
3	Comedy of mistakes	The Comedy of Errors	1592 - 1594	First folio , 1623	Hilt
four	Cymbeline	Cymbeline	About 1609	First folio , 1623	Britain and Italy	Holinshed's Chronicles ; Ovid's Metamorphosis ; “Comparative biographies” of Plutarch ; plays of English forerunners of Shakespeare
five	Fruitless efforts of love	Love's Labour's Lost	1594-1595	1598	Navarre
6	Measure for measure	Measure for Measure	1604	First folio , 1623	Vein	A prose retelling by Whetston (1582) of the story of Giraldi Chintio
7	The Merchant of Venice	Merchant of venice			Venice and nearby lands on the mainland
eight	Windsor mockers	Merry Wives of Windsor			Windsor and its environs
9	A dream in a summer night	A Midsummer Night's Dream			Athens and the forest nearby
ten	Much ado about nothing	Much Ado about Nothing			Messina
eleven	Pericles	Pericles, Prince of Tire	Written either in 1607 - 1608 , or earlier, but reworked at this time.	1609 . The first folio is not included
12	The Taming of the Shrew	Taming of the shrew		First folio , 1623	Padua and surroundings
13	Storm	The tempest	About 1611	First folio , 1623	Ship in the sea, island
14	Twelfth night or whatever	Twelfth Night or What You Will	1600 - 1601	First folio , 1623	City in Illyria and the seashore near it
15	Two Verona	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	1594 - 1595	First folio , 1623	Verona , Milan , forest on the border of Mantua
sixteen	Two noble relatives	The two noble kinsmen	1613 - 1614	The first folio (1623) is not included. First published in 1635
17	Winter's Tale	The winter's tale	1594 - 1611	First folio , 1623	Sicily , Bohemia

Chronicles


No	Russian name	original name	date of creation	First publication	Scene	The basis of the plot	Sources (if available)
The Chronicles of William Shakespeare
one	Henry VI, part 2	Henry VI, Part II	1590	The distorted ("pirate") text was published anonymously in 1594	England	Hundred Years War , The War of the Scarlet and White Rose	Holinshed's Chronicles
2	Henry VI, part 3	Henry VI, Part III	1591	The distorted ("pirate") text was published anonymously in 1595	England and France	Hundred Years War , The War of the Scarlet and White Rose	Holinshed's Chronicles
3	Henry VI, part 1	Henry VI, Part I	1592 . It is believed that 1588	First folio , 1623	England and France	Hundred Years War	Holinshed's Chronicles
four	Richard III	Richard III	1592 - 1593	1597	England	Scarlet and White Rose Wars	Holinshed's Chronicles ; "The History of King Richard III" by Thomas More
five	King John	King john	1596 - 1597	First folio , 1623	England and France
6	Richard II	Richard II			England and Wales	Hundred Years War
7	Henry V	Henry v	1599	1600 , 1603 and 1619 are incomplete text. For the first time completely - in the First Folio , 1623	England and France	Hundred Years War
eight	Henry IV, part 1	Henry IV, Part I	Beginning — mid 1590s	1598	England	Hundred Years War
9	Henry IV, part 2	Henry IV, Part II	1597 - 1599	1600	England	Hundred Years War
ten	Henry VIII	Henry VIII		First folio , 1623	London , Westminster , Kimbolton		Holinshed's Chronicles ; The Book of the Martyrs by Fox

Poems and poems


No	Russian name	original name	date of creation	First publication
Poems and Poems by William Shakespeare
one	Venus and Adonis	Venus and adonis	1593
2	Passionate Pilgrim	The passionate pilgrim		1599 (in a collection of different authors). Sometimes singles are singled out for music.
3	Disgraced Lucretia	The rape of lucrece	1594
four	Phoenix and dove	The phoenix and the turtle		1601 (in a collection of different authors)
five	Sonnets	Sonnets		Two sonnets (138 and 144) were printed in 1599 in the Passionate Pilgrim collection. Entirely published without the knowledge of the author in 1609
6	Complaint in love	A lover's complaint		First printed with sonnets in 1609

Apocrypha


No	Russian name	original name
Apocrypha and the Lost Works of William Shakespeare
one	Edward III	Edward iii
2	Sir Thomas More
3	The triumph of love

Notes

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List of works by William Shakespeare

Tragedies, comedies, chronicles

Comedy

Chronicles

Poems and poems

Apocrypha

Notes

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