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List of works by William Shakespeare

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List of works by William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare (1564–1616)[1] was an English poet and playwright. He wrote approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems.[note 1]

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The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Plays

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Tragedies

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Comedies

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Histories

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Selected poems

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Apocrypha

The Shakespeare apocrypha is a group of plays and poems that have sometimes been attributed to Shakespeare, but whose attribution is questionable for various reasons.

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Notes

  1. The exact figures cannot be known. See Shakespearean authorship, Shakespeare's collaborations and Shakespeare Apocrypha for further details.
  2. The identical dates may not be coincidental; the Pauline and Ephesian aspect of the play, noted under Sources, may have had the effect of linking The Comedy of Errors to the holiday season—much like Twelfth Night, another play secular on its surface but linked to the Christmas holidays.
  3. There is a performance mentioned in the Book of Plays of Simon Forman; even if it is genuine (not all commentators think it is), the Book of Plays reference is undated and lacks specific information.
  4. The Yale Shakespeare edition suggests this was a collaborative work; some scenes (Act III scene 7 and Act V scene 2) may seem less characteristic of Shakespeare than the rest of the play.
  5. Since Henry VI, part 3 was also acted in 1592—Robert Greene parodied one of its lines in his 1592 pamphlet A Groatsworth of Wit—the implication is that all three parts of the trilogy were being acted in 1592.
  6. A "bad quarto" was a version of a play that was not the official version from the playwright themselves; often these versions were written down during a performance and printed later, leading to great inaccuracies in the text.
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