Dates of Shakespearean Works

*Dates of Shakespeare’s

1589–92?  The Taming of the Shrew 
1591  2 Henry VI 
1591  3 Henry VI 
1591–2  The Two Gentlemen of Verona 
1591–2  Titus Andronicus 
1592  1 Henry VI (with Thomas Nashe and others?) 
1592–4  Richard III 
1593  Narrative poem: Venus and Adonis 
1593–4  Narrative poem: The Rape of Lucrece 
1593–1608  Sonnets 
1594  The Comedy of Errors 
1595  Love’s Labour’s Lost 
1595–6  A Midsummer Night’s Dream 
1595–6  King Richard II 
1595–6  Romeo and Juliet 
1595–7  King John 
1596–8  The Merchant of Venice 
1596–7  1 Henry IV 
1597–8  2 Henry IV 
1597–1601  The Merry Wives of Windsor 
1598–9  Much Ado About Nothing 
1599  Henry V 
1599  Julius Caesar 
1599  Poem To the Queen 
1599–1600  As You Like It 
1600–1601  Hamlet 
1601  Poem Let the Bird of Loudest Lay (The Phoenix and Turtle) 
1601  Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 
1601–2  Troilus and Cressida 
1604  Othello 
1604  Measure for Measure 
1605  All’s Well that Ends Well 
1605  Timon of Athens (with Thomas Middleton?) 
1605–6  King Lear 
1606  Macbeth 
1606–7  Antony and Cleopatra 
1608  Coriolanus 
1608  Pericles (with George Wilkins)