Shakespeare's plays - chronological order based on each play's known or estimated first performance. There is very little firm evidence to establish the exact order of performance or even the order in which the playwright composed them.
Play | Date first performed |
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Henry VI pt 1,2,3 | 1589-92 |
Richard III | 1592-93 |
The Comedy of Errors | 1592-93 |
Titus Andronicus | 1593-94 |
The Taming Of The Shrew | 1593-94 |
The Two Gentlemen Of Verona | 1594-95 |
Romeo And Juliet | 1594-95 |
Love's Labor's Lost | 1594-95 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1595-96 |
Richard II | 1595-96 |
King John | 1596-97 |
The Merchant Of Venice | 1596-97 |
Henry IV pt 1,2 | 1597-98 |
Henry V | 1598-99 |
Much Ado About Nothing | 1598-99 |
Julius Caesar | 1599-1600 |
As You Like It | 1599-1600 |
The Merry Wives Of Windsor | 1600-01 |
Hamlet | 1600-01 |
Troilus and Cressida | 1601-02 |
Twelfth Night | 1601-02 |
All's Well That Ends Well | 1602-03 |
Measure for Measure | 1604-05 |
Othello | 1604-05 |
King Lear | 1605-06 |
Macbeth | 1605-06 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 1606-07 |
Coriolanus | 1607-08 |
Timon of Athens | 1607-08 |
Pericles | 1608-09 |
Cymbeline | 1609-10 |
The Winter's Tale | 1610-11 |
The Tempest | 1610-11 |
Henry VIII | 1612-13 |