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List Of Shakespeare Play. This is a list of all of Shakespeares playsOnly a few of his plays can be accurately dated. Shakespeares plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by English poet playwright and actor William ShakespeareThe exact number of playsas well as their classifications as tragedy history or comedyis a matter of scholarly debate. Dates following titles indicate the dates the plays were written unless otherwise noted. Shakespeares plays listed by presumed date of composition List plays by title genre word count speech count.
Henry VI Part III. He died in 1616 was. Shakespeares plays are widely regarded as being among the greatest in the English language and are continually performed around the world. Timon of Athens 1607 Titus Andronicus 1593 Troilus and Cressida 1601 Twelfth Night 1599. No doubt Shakespeare in terms of both his life and body of work is the most written-about author in the history of Western civilization. It is not always easy to categorically say whether a William Shakespeare play is a tragedy comedy or history because Shakespeare blurred the boundaries between these genres especially as his work developed more complexity in themes and character developmentBut those are the categories into which the First Folio the first collection of his works published in 1623.
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Each historical play is named after and focuses on the reigning monarch of the period. This is a list of all of Shakespeares playsOnly a few of his plays can be accurately dated. Henry VI Part II. Total words in all plays. The plays normally referred to as Shakespeare history plays are the ten plays that cover English history from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries and the 1399-1485 period in particular. We have included his complete works of 37 plays ranked from best to worst.