TIMELINE OFHIS PLAYS
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1580 - 1590
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The
Taming of the Shrew Considered to be
one of Shakespeare's earliest works, the play is generally believed to have
been written before 1592
1590 - 1600
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Henry
VI Part II Believed to have
been written in 1591 and
Shakespeare's first play based on English history
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Henry
VI Part III Written immediately
after Part II, a short version of the play was published in Octavo form in 1595
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The Two
Gentlemen of Verona Known to be
written around the 1590s as it was mentioned by Francis Meres
in his list of Shakespeare's plays in 1598, no firm evidence for a particular
year
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Titus
Andronicus Written in 1591/92,
with its first performance possibly in January 1594
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Henry
VI Part I Generally assumed
to be the 'harey the vi' performed at the Rose Theatre in 1592
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Richard
III Could have been
written in 1592, shortly before the
plague struck, or in 1594 when the theatres reopened post-plague
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The
Comedy of Errors Was possibly
written for Gray's Inn Christmas festivities for the legal profession in
December1594
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Love's
Labour's Lost An edition of the
play in 1598 refers to it being 'presented before her Highness [Queen
Elizabeth] this last Christmas', and most scholars date it to 1595-96
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A
Midsummer Night's Dream Often
dated to 1595-96. Reference in Act 1
Scene 2 to courtiers being afraid of a strage lion may allude to an incident in
Scotland in 1594
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Romeo
and Juliet Astrological
allusions and earthquake reference may suggest composition in 1595-96
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Richard
II Typically dated 1595-96.
Described in 1601 as 'old and long out of use'
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King
John Written between 1595 and 1597; an anonymous
two-part King John was
published in 1591 but Shakespeare's version is stylistically close to later
histories
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The
Merchant of Venice Registered for
publication in 1598, reference to a ship Andrew suggests late 1596 or
early 1597 as a
Spanish ship of the name was captured around that time
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Henry
IV Part I Probably written
and first performed 1596-97, registered for
publication in 1598
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Henry
IV Part II Written around 1597-98 and registered for publication in
1600, both parts are based on Holinshed's Chronicles
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Much
Ado About Nothing Late 1598,
not mentioned in Francis Meres's 1598 list of Shakespeare's plays but included
the role Dogberry for Will Kemp, a comic actor who left the company in early
1599
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Henry V Written
in 1599, mentions a 'general...
from Ireland coming', could be referring to the Earl of Essex's Irish
expedition in 1599
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As You
Like It Typically dated
late 1599. Not mentioned in Francis
Meres's 1598 list of Shakespeare's plays, unless orignally called Love's
Labours Won
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Julius
Caesar 1599. Not mentioned
in Meres's 1598 list of plays, seen at the Globe by Swiss visitor Thomas
Platter in 1599
1600 - 1610
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Hamlet Dated
around 1600, registered for
publication in summer 1602. There are allusions to Julius Caesar, which was writtein
in 1599
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The Merry
Wives of Windsor Estimated 1597
- 1601, though an allusion to the Order of the Garter might
indicate that it was performed at the Garter Feast in 1597
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Twelfth Night 1601. Not
mentioned in Meres's 1598 list of plays and alludes to a map first published in
1599
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Troilus
and Cressida Dated 1601-02,
registered for publication early 1603 and alludes to the play Thomas
Lord Cromwell, which was registered for publication in 1602
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Othello Dated 1604 though
some argue for a slightly earlier date. It is recorded to have been performed
in court in November 1604
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Measure
for Measure Performed at
court for Christmas 1604, probably written earlier
the same year
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All's
Well That Ends Well No strong
evidence for date written or first performed, but it is usually dated 1603-06 on stylistic grounds
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Timon
of Athens Estimated 1604-06 based
on stylistic similarity to King
Lear
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King
Lear Dated 1605-06.
Performed at court December 1606 and seems to refer to eclipses of September
and October 1605
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Macbeth 1606.
Certainly more Jacobean than Elizabethan based on the play's severe compliments
to King James
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Antony
and Cleopatra Dated 1606-07,
registered for publication in 1608 and perhaps performed at court in 1606 or
1607
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Coriolanus Perhaps
written in 1608. Allusion to 'coal of
fire upon ice' in Act 1 could refer to the great frost of winter in 1607/08
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Pericles 1608.
Registered for publication in 1608; Wilkin's novel The Painful Adventures of Pericles, cashing
in on the success of the play, was published in 1608
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Cymbeline 1610. A
performance in 1611 is recorded. Theatres were reopened in spring 1610 after a
long closure due to the plague
AFTER 1610
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The
Winter's Tale 1611. Performed at
the Globe May 1611; dance of satyrs apparently borrows from a court
entertainment of January 1611
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The
Tempest 1611. Performed at
court in November 1611; uses source material not available before autumn 1610
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Henry
VIII 1613. The first Globe
theatre burnt down in a fire that started during a performance of the play on
29 June 1613
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