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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

Biographical note
William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer the English language has ever seen.
Whether you agree with that or not, he is certainly the most quoted author of all time. His output of 37
plays, 154 sonnets and sundry other poems is extraordinary by any measure.
The plays are conventionally divided into the Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. The list here adopts
the additional subdivision of Romances used by many collections. It should be noted that the term
"Comedy" had a somewhat different meaning in Shakespeare's day, and the Comedies often feature
morally dubious plots by today's standards.
See also . . .

! A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature / John W. Cousin

! The Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson
! Shakespeare; or, The Poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson
! Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown / Andrew Lang
Works
The Comedies

! All's Well That Ends Well

! As You Like It / with illustrations by Hugh Thomson
! The Comedy of Errors
! Loves Labour s Lost
! Measure for Measure
! The Merry Wives of Windsor
! The Merchant of Venice / with eight illustrations by Averil Burleigh
! A Midsummer Night's Dream
! Much Ado About Nothing
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! The Taming of the Shrew

! Twelfth Night; or, What you will
! The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Romances

! Pericles, Prince of Tyre

! Cymbeline
! The Winter's Tale
! The Tempest / with eight illustrations by Walter Crane
The Histories

! The Life and Death of King John

! The Life and Death of King Richard the Second
! The first part of King Henry the Fourth
! The second part of King Henry the Fourth
! The Life of King Henry V
! The first part of King Henry the Sixth
! The second part of King Henry the Sixth
! The third part of King Henry the Sixth
! The Life of King Henry the Eighth
! The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
The Tragedies

! Titus Andronicus
! Romeo and Juliet
! Julius Caesar
! Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
! The History of Troilus and Cressida
! Othello, the Moor of Venice
! King Lear
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! Macbeth
! The Life of Timon of Athens
! Antony and Cleopatra
! Coriolanus
Poetry

! The Sonnets
! A Lover's Complaint
! The Rape of Lucrece
! Venus and Adonis
! The Phoenix and the Turtle
! The Passionate Pilgrim
Other links
Shakespeare in Quarto from the British Library.
The Opensource Shakespeare Project
Internet Shakespeare Editions
FirstFolio
Wikipedia
Google search
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