Author:William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

For authors with similar names, see Author:William Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare
(1564–1616)

William Shakespeare

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
• 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 Tragedy of Titus Andronicus – 1592 – authorship disputed
• The Two Noble Kinsmen – c. 1613–1614 – co-authored with John Fletcher

Histories

• The Raigne of King Edward the Third — Published 1596. 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

• Shakespeare's last will and testament

Lost and disputed works

Plays

• Cardenio (lost)
• Sir Thomas More (attributed) (transcription project)
• Love's Labour's Wonne (lost, or given a different title)
• The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine (attributed)
• The First Part of the True and Honorable Historie of the Life of 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 (West 126) (transcription project)

  1623 edition (West 150) (transcription project)

  1623 edition (West 192) (transcription project)

• Second Folio (1632) (transcription project)
• Third Folio (1664) (transcription project)
• Fourth Folio (1685) (transcription project)
• Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life (1847, The Illustrated Shakespeare edition, 3 vols.) edited by Gulian C. Verplanck and illustrated by H. W. Hewet
• The Works of William Shakespeare (1863–1866, The Cambridge Shakespeare edition, 9 vols.) edited by William George Clark, et al.
• Portal:The Warwick Shakespeare (1893–1938)
• Portal:The Arden Shakespeare (1899–1924)
• Portal:The Yale Shakespeare (1917–1927)

Works about Shakespeare

Biographical books

• Shakespeare of Stratford (1926) by C. F. Tucker Brooke

Biographical articles

• Sketch of William Shakespeare from Stories from Old English Poetry (1871), by Abby Sage Richardson
• "Shakespeare, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Shakespeare, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 21) (1886)
• "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, Volume 4 (1902), by Leslie Stephen

Encyclopedia articles about his plays

• "Hero (Shakespeare)," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "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)

Literary analysis

• Hamlet and His Problems by T. S. Eliot
• Characters of Shakespear's Plays by William Hazlitt (1817)
• "Macbeth, and King Richard the Third" by John Philip Kemble (1817)
• A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1880)
• "Shakespeare in the Class-Room" by Theodore Dwight Weld (1886)
• Tales from Shakspeare by Charles and Mary Lamb,
• Shakespeare and astrology by William Wilson (1903)
• Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain (1909)
• "The Importance of The Ghost in Hamlet" by William Strunk, Jr. (1910)
• Shakespearean Tragedy by A. C. Bradley (1912)
• Some Textual Difficulties in Shakespeare by Charles David Stewart (1914) (transcription project)
• "Tolstoy and Shakespeare" (1941) by George Orwell
• "Shakespeare and the grand style," by George Saintsbury in Essays and studies: by members of the English Association (v. 1, pp. 113−135), (ed.) by A. C. Bradley, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1910)

Poetry

• "William Shakespeare" (1882), a sonnet by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Shakespeare" in General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• "Shakespeare" by Josef Svatopluk Machar

Other

• "Shakespeare; or, the Poet" in Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850)
• "Shakespeare in Bohemia" by Josef Jiří Král in Poet Lore, 4 (4) (1892)
• "Sea Coast of Bohemia" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (9) (1917)