Shakespeare 's plays - wikipedia Shakespeare 's plays Sir John Gilbert 's 1849 painting : The Plays of Shakespeare, containing scenes and characters from several of William Shakespeare 's plays. The plays written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare ( 1564 -- 1616 ) have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Traditionally, the plays are divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy ; they have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being continually performed all around the world. Many of his plays appeared in print as a series of quartos, but approximately half of them remained unpublished until 1623, when the posthumous First Folio was published. The traditional division of his plays into tragedies, comedies and histories follows the categories used in the First Folio. However, modern criticism has labelled some of these plays `` problem plays '' that elude easy categorisation, or perhaps purposely break generic conventions, and has introduced the term romances for what scholars believe to be his later comedies. When Shakespeare first arrived in London in the late 1570s or early 1580s, dramatists writing for London 's new commercial playhouses ( such as The Curtain ) were combining two different strands of dramatic tradition into a new and distinctively Elizabethan synthesis. Previously, the most common forms of popular English theatre were the Tudor morality plays. These plays, celebrating piety generally, use personified moral attributes to urge or instruct the protagonist to choose the virtuous life over Evil. The characters and plot situations are largely symbolic rather than realistic. As a child, Shakespeare would likely have seen this type of play ( along with, perhaps, mystery plays and miracle plays ). The other strand of dramatic tradition was classical aesthetic theory. This theory was derived ultimately from Aristotle ; in Renaissance England, however, the theory was better known through its Roman interpreters and practitioners. At the universities, plays were staged in a more academic form as Roman closet dramas. These plays, usually performed in Latin, adhered to classical ideas of unity and decorum, but they were also more static, valuing lengthy speeches over physical action. Shakespeare would have learned this theory at grammar school, where Plautus and especially Terence were key parts of the curriculum and were taught in editions with lengthy theoretical introductions. Contents 1 Theatre and stage setup 2 Elizabethan Shakespeare 3 Jacobean Shakespeare 4 Style 4.1 Soliloquies in plays 5 Source material of the plays 6 Canonical plays 6.1 Comedies 6.2 Histories 6.3 Tragedies 7 Dramatic collaborations 8 Lost plays 9 Plays possibly by Shakespeare 10 Shakespeare and the textual problem 11 Performance history 12 See also 13 References 14 Further reading 15 External links Theatre and stage setup Archaeological excavations on the foundations of the Rose and the Globe in the late twentieth century showed that all London English Renaissance theatres were built around similar general plans. Despite individual differences, the public theatres were three stories high, and built around an open space at the centre. Usually polygonal in plan to give an overall rounded effect, three levels of inward - facing galleries overlooked the open centre into which jutted the stage -- essentially a platform surrounded on three sides by the audience, only the rear being restricted for the entrances and exits of the actors and seating for the musicians. The upper level behind the stage could be used as a balcony, as in Romeo and Juliet, or as a position for a character to harangue a crowd, as in Julius Caesar. Usually built of timber, lath and plaster and with thatched roofs, the early theatres were vulnerable to fire, and gradually were replaced ( when necessary ) with stronger structures. When the Globe burned down in June 1613, it was rebuilt with a tile roof. A different model was developed with the Blackfriars Theatre, which came into regular use on a long term basis in 1599. The Blackfriars was small in comparison to the earlier theatres, and roofed rather than open to the sky ; it resembled a modern theatre in ways that its predecessors did not. Elizabethan Shakespeare For Shakespeare as he began to write, both traditions were alive ; they were, moreover, filtered through the recent success of the University Wits on the London stage. By the late 16th century, the popularity of morality and academic plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre. Their plays blended the old morality drama with classical theory to produce a new secular form. The new drama combined the rhetorical complexity of the academic play with the bawdy energy of the moralities. However, it was more ambiguous and complex in its meanings, and less concerned with simple allegory. Inspired by this new style, Shakespeare continued these artistic strategies, creating plays that not only resonated on an emotional level with audiences but also explored and debated the basic elements of what it means to be human. What Marlowe and Kyd did for tragedy, John Lyly and George Peele, among others, did for comedy : they offered models of witty dialogue, romantic action, and exotic, often pastoral location that formed the basis of Shakespeare 's comedic mode throughout his career. Shakespeare 's Elizabethan tragedies ( including the history plays with tragic designs, such as Richard II ) demonstrate his relative independence from classical models. He takes from Aristotle and Horace the notion of decorum ; with few exceptions, he focuses on high - born characters and national affairs as the subject of tragedy. In most other respects, though, the early tragedies are far closer to the spirit and style of moralities. They are episodic, packed with character and incident ; they are loosely unified by a theme or character. In this respect, they reflect clearly the influence of Marlowe, particularly of Tamburlaine. Even in his early work, however, Shakespeare generally shows more restraint than Marlowe ; he resorts to grandiloquent rhetoric less frequently, and his attitude towards his heroes is more nuanced, and sometimes more sceptical, than Marlowe 's. By the turn of the century, the bombast of Titus Andronicus had vanished, replaced by the subtlety of Hamlet. In comedy, Shakespeare strayed even further from classical models. The Comedy of Errors, an adaptation of Menaechmi, follows the model of new comedy closely. Shakespeare 's other Elizabethan comedies are more romantic. Like Lyly, he often makes romantic intrigue ( a secondary feature in Latin new comedy ) the main plot element ; even this romantic plot is sometimes given less attention than witty dialogue, deceit, and jests. The `` reform of manners, '' which Horace considered the main function of comedy, survives in such episodes as the gulling of Malvolio. Jacobean Shakespeare Shakespeare reached maturity as a dramatist at the end of Elizabeth 's reign, and in the first years of the reign of James. In these years, he responded to a deep shift in popular tastes, both in subject matter and approach. At the turn of the decade, he responded to the vogue for dramatic satire initiated by the boy players at Blackfriars and St. Paul 's. At the end of the decade, he seems to have attempted to capitalise on the new fashion for tragicomedy, even collaborating with John Fletcher, the writer who had popularised the genre in England. The influence of younger dramatists such as John Marston and Ben Jonson is seen not only in the problem plays, which dramatise intractable human problems of greed and lust, but also in the darker tone of the Jacobean tragedies. The Marlovian, heroic mode of the Elizabethan tragedies is gone, replaced by a darker vision of heroic natures caught in environments of pervasive corruption. As a sharer in both the Globe and in the King 's Men, Shakespeare never wrote for the boys ' companies ; however, his early Jacobean work is markedly influenced by the techniques of the new, satiric dramatists. One play, Troilus and Cressida, may even have been inspired by the War of the Theatres. Shakespeare 's final plays hark back to his Elizabethan comedies in their use of romantic situation and incident. In these plays, however, the sombre elements that are largely glossed over in the earlier plays are brought to the fore and often rendered dramatically vivid. This change is related to the success of tragicomedies such as Philaster, although the uncertainty of dates makes the nature and direction of the influence unclear. From the evidence of the title - page to The Two Noble Kinsmen and from textual analysis it is believed by some editors that Shakespeare ended his career in collaboration with Fletcher, who succeeded him as house playwright for the King 's Men. These last plays resemble Fletcher 's tragicomedies in their attempt to find a comedic mode capable of dramatising more serious events than had his earlier comedies. Style During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, `` drama became the ideal means to capture and convey the diverse interests of the time. '' Stories of various genres were enacted for audiences consisting of both the wealthy and educated and the poor and illiterate. Later on, he retired at the height of the Jacobean period, not long before the start of the Thirty Years ' War. His verse style, his choice of subjects, and his stagecraft all bear the marks of both periods. His style changed not only in accordance with his own tastes and developing mastery, but also in accord with the tastes of the audiences for whom he wrote. While many passages in Shakespeare 's plays are written in prose, he almost always wrote a large proportion of his plays and poems in iambic pentameter. In some of his early works ( like Romeo and Juliet ), he even added punctuation at the end of these iambic pentameter lines to make the rhythm even stronger. He and many dramatists of this period used the form of blank verse extensively in character dialogue, thus heightening poetic effects. To end many scenes in his plays he used a rhyming couplet to give a sense of conclusion, or completion. A typical example is provided in Macbeth : as Macbeth leaves the stage to murder Duncan ( to the sound of a chiming clock ), he says, `` Hear it not Duncan ; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. '' Shakespeare 's writing ( especially his plays ) also feature extensive wordplay in which double entendres and rhetorical flourishes are repeatedly used. Humour is a key element in all of Shakespeare 's plays. Although a large amount of his comical talent is evident in his comedies, some of the most entertaining scenes and characters are found in tragedies such as Hamlet and histories such as Henry IV, Part 1. Shakespeare 's humour was largely influenced by Plautus. Soliloquies in plays Shakespeare 's plays are also notable for their use of soliloquies, in which a character makes a speech to him - or herself so the audience can understand the character 's inner motivations and conflict. In his book Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies, James Hirsh defines the convention of a Shakespearean soliloquy in early modern drama. He argues that when a person on the stage speaks to himself or herself, they are characters in a fiction speaking in character ; this is an occasion of self - address. Furthermore, Hirsh points out that Shakespearian soliloquies and `` asides '' are audible in the fiction of the play, bound to be overheard by any other character in the scene unless certain elements confirm that the speech is protected. Therefore, a Renaissance playgoer who was familiar with this dramatic convention would have been alert to Hamlet 's expectation that his soliloquy be overheard by the other characters in the scene. Moreover, Hirsh asserts that in soliloquies in other Shakespearian plays, the speaker is entirely in character within the play 's fiction. Saying that addressing the audience was outmoded by the time Shakespeare was alive, he `` acknowledges few occasions when a Shakespearean speech might involve the audience in recognising the simultaneous reality of the stage and the world the stage is representing. '' Other than 29 speeches delivered by choruses or characters who revert to that condition as epilogues `` Hirsh recognises only three instances of audience address in Shakespeare 's plays, ' all in very early comedies, in which audience address is introduced specifically to ridicule the practice as antiquated and amateurish. ' '' Source material of the plays The first edition of Raphael Holinshed 's Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, printed in 1577. As was common in the period, Shakespeare based many of his plays on the work of other playwrights and recycled older stories and historical material. His dependence on earlier sources was a natural consequence of the speed at which playwrights of his era wrote ; in addition, plays based on already popular stories appear to have been seen as more likely to draw large crowds. There were also aesthetic reasons : Renaissance aesthetic theory took seriously the dictum that tragic plots should be grounded in history. For example, King Lear is probably an adaptation of an older play, King Leir, and the Henriad probably derived from The Famous Victories of Henry V. There is speculation that Hamlet ( c. 1601 ) may be a reworking of an older, lost play ( the so - called Ur - Hamlet ), but the number of lost plays from this time period makes it impossible to determine that relationship with certainty. ( The Ur - Hamlet may in fact have been Shakespeare 's, and was just an earlier and subsequently discarded version. ) For plays on historical subjects, Shakespeare relied heavily on two principal texts. Most of the Roman and Greek plays are based on Plutarch 's Parallel Lives ( from the 1579 English translation by Sir Thomas North ), and the English history plays are indebted to Raphael Holinshed 's 1587 Chronicles. This structure did not apply to comedy, and those of Shakespeare 's plays for which no clear source has been established, such as Love 's Labour 's Lost and The Tempest, are comedies. Even these plays, however, rely heavily on generic commonplaces. While there is much dispute about the exact Chronology of Shakespeare plays, as well as the Shakespeare Authorship Question, the plays tend to fall into three main stylistic groupings. The first major grouping of his plays begins with his histories and comedies of the 1590s. Shakespeare 's earliest plays tended to be adaptations of other playwright 's works and employed blank verse and little variation in rhythm. However, after the plague forced Shakespeare and his company of actors to leave London for periods between 1592 and 1594, Shakespeare began to use rhymed couplets in his plays, along with more dramatic dialogue. These elements showed up in The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night 's Dream. Almost all of the plays written after the plague hit London are comedies, perhaps reflecting the public 's desire at the time for light - hearted fare. Other comedies from Shakespeare during this period include Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor and As You Like It. The middle grouping of Shakespeare 's plays begins in 1599 with Julius Caesar. For the next few years, Shakespeare would produce his most famous dramas, including Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear. The plays during this period are in many ways the darkest of Shakespeare 's career and address issues such as betrayal, murder, lust, power and egoism. The final grouping of plays, called Shakespeare 's late romances, include Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, The Winter 's Tale and The Tempest. The romances are so called because they bear similarities to medieval romance literature. Among the features of these plays are a redemptive plotline with a happy ending, and magic and other fantastic elements. Canonical plays Except where noted, the plays below are listed, for the thirty - six plays included in the First Folio of 1623, according to the order in which they appear there, with two plays that were not included ( Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Two Noble Kinsmen ) being added at the end of the list of comedies and Edward III at the end of the list of histories. Comedies Main article : Shakespearean comedy The Tempest Two Gentlemen of Verona The Merry Wives of Windsor Measure for Measure The Comedy of Errors Much Ado About Nothing Love 's Labour 's Lost A Midsummer Night 's Dream The Merchant of Venice As You Like It The Taming of the Shrew All 's Well That Ends Well Twelfth Night The Winter 's Tale Pericles, Prince of Tyre The Two Noble Kinsmen Histories Main article : Shakespearean history King John Richard II Henry IV, Part 1 Henry IV, Part 2 Henry V Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI, Part 3 Richard III Henry VIII Edward III Tragedies Main article : Shakespearean tragedy Troilus and Cressida Coriolanus Titus Andronicus Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Julius Caesar Macbeth Hamlet King Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline Note : Plays marked with are now commonly referred to as the `` late romances ''. Plays marked with are sometimes referred to as the `` problem plays ''. The three plays marked with were not included in the First Folio. Dramatic collaborations Main article : Shakespeare 's collaborations Like most playwrights of his period, Shakespeare did not always write alone, and a number of his plays were collaborative, although the exact number is open to debate. Some of the following attributions, such as for The Two Noble Kinsmen, have well - attested contemporary documentation ; others, such as for Titus Andronicus, remain more controversial and are dependent on linguistic analysis by modern scholars. Cardenio, either a lost play or one that survives only in later adaptation Double Falsehood ; contemporary reports say that Shakespeare collaborated on it with John Fletcher. Cymbeline, in which the Yale edition suggests a collaborator had a hand in the authorship, and some scenes ( Act III scene 7 and Act V scene 2 ) may strike the reader as un-Shakespearean compared with others. Edward III, of which Brian Vickers ' recent analysis concluded that the play was 40 % Shakespeare and 60 % Thomas Kyd. Henry VI, Part 1, possibly the work of a team of playwrights, whose identities we can only guess at. Some scholars argue that Shakespeare wrote less than 20 % of the text. Henry VIII, generally considered a collaboration between Shakespeare and John Fletcher. Macbeth, Thomas Middleton may have revised this tragedy in 1615 to incorporate extra musical sequences. Measure for Measure may have undergone a light revision by Thomas Middleton at some point after its original composition. Pericles, Prince of Tyre may include the work of George Wilkins, either as collaborator, reviser, or revisee. Timon of Athens may result from collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton ; this might explain its unusual plot and unusually cynical tone. Titus Andronicus may be a collaboration with, or revision by, George Peele. The Two Noble Kinsmen, published in quarto in 1634 and attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare ; each playwright appears to have written about half of the text. Lost plays Love 's Labour 's Won -- a late sixteenth - century writer, Francis Meres, and a bookseller 's list both include this title among Shakespeare 's recent works, but no play of this title has survived. It may have become lost, or it may represent an alternative title of one of the plays listed above, such as Much Ado About Nothing or All 's Well That Ends Well. Cardenio -- the original of a late play by Shakespeare and Fletcher, referred to in several documents, has not survived. It is believed to have re-worked a tale in Cervantes ' Don Quixote. In 1727, Lewis Theobald produced a play he called Double Falshood, which he claimed to have adapted from three manuscripts of a lost play by Shakespeare that he did not name. Double Falshood does re-work the Cardenio story, and modern scholarship generally agrees that Double Falshood includes fragments of Shakespeare 's lost play. Plays possibly by Shakespeare Note : For a comprehensive account of plays possibly by Shakespeare or in part by Shakespeare, see the separate entry on the Shakespeare Apocrypha. Arden of Faversham -- the middle portion of the play ( scenes 4 -- 9 ) may have been written by Shakespeare. Edmund Ironside -- contains numerous words first used by Shakespeare. Sir Thomas More -- a collaborative work by several playwrights, including Shakespeare. There is a `` growing scholarly consensus '' that Shakespeare was called in to re-write a contentious scene in the play and that `` Hand D '' in the surviving manuscript is that of Shakespeare himself. The Spanish Tragedy -- additional passages included in the fourth quarto, including the `` painter scene '', are likely to have been written by him. Shakespeare and the textual problem Unlike his contemporary Ben Jonson, Shakespeare did not have direct involvement in publishing his plays and produced no overall authoritative version of his plays before he died. As a result, the problem of identifying what Shakespeare actually wrote is a major concern for most modern editions. One of the reasons there are textual problems is that there was no copyright of writings at the time. As a result, Shakespeare and the playing companies he worked with did not distribute scripts of his plays, for fear that the plays would be stolen. This led to bootleg copies of his plays, which were often based on people trying to remember what Shakespeare had actually written. Textual corruptions also stemming from printers ' errors, misreadings by compositors, or simply wrongly scanned lines from the source material litter the Quartos and the First Folio. Additionally, in an age before standardised spelling, Shakespeare often wrote a word several times in a different spelling, and this may have contributed to some of the transcribers ' confusion. Modern editors have the task of reconstructing Shakespeare 's original words and expurgating errors as far as possible. In some cases the textual solution presents few difficulties. In the case of Macbeth for example, scholars believe that someone ( probably Thomas Middleton ) adapted and shortened the original to produce the extant text published in the First Folio, but that remains our only authorised text. In others the text may have become manifestly corrupt or unreliable ( Pericles or Timon of Athens ) but no competing version exists. The modern editor can only regularise and correct erroneous readings that have survived into the printed versions. The textual problem can, however, become rather complicated. Modern scholarship now believes Shakespeare to have modified his plays through the years, sometimes leading to two existing versions of one play. To provide a modern text in such cases, editors must face the choice between the original first version and the later, revised, usually more theatrical version. In the past editors have resolved this problem by conflating the texts to provide what they believe to be a superior Ur - text, but critics now argue that to provide a conflated text would run contrary to Shakespeare 's intentions. In King Lear for example, two independent versions, each with their own textual integrity, exist in the Quarto and the Folio versions. Shakespeare 's changes here extend from the merely local to the structural. Hence the Oxford Shakespeare, published in 1986 ( second edition 2005 ), provides two different versions of the play, each with respectable authority. The problem exists with at least four other Shakespearian plays ( Henry IV, part 1, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, and Othello ). Performance history Main article : Shakespeare in performance The modern reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, in London. During Shakespeare 's lifetime, many of his greatest plays were staged at the Globe Theatre and the Blackfriars Theatre. Shakespeare 's fellow members of the Lord Chamberlain 's Men acted in his plays. Among these actors were Richard Burbage ( who played the title role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare 's plays, including Hamlet, Othello, Richard III and King Lear ), Richard Cowley ( who played Verges in Much Ado About Nothing ), William Kempe, ( who played Peter in Romeo and Juliet and, possibly, Bottom in A Midsummer Night 's Dream ) and Henry Condell and John Heminges, who are most famous now for collecting and editing the plays of Shakespeare 's First Folio ( 1623 ). Shakespeare 's plays continued to be staged after his death until the Interregnum ( 1649 -- 1660 ), when all public stage performances were banned by the Puritan rulers. After the English Restoration, Shakespeare 's plays were performed in playhouses with elaborate scenery and staged with music, dancing, thunder, lightning, wave machines, and fireworks. During this time the texts were `` reformed '' and `` improved '' for the stage, an undertaking which has seemed shockingly disrespectful to posterity. Victorian productions of Shakespeare often sought pictorial effects in `` authentic '' historical costumes and sets. The staging of the reported sea fights and barge scene in Antony and Cleopatra was one spectacular example. Too often, the result was a loss of pace. Towards the end of the 19th century, William Poel led a reaction against this heavy style. In a series of `` Elizabethan '' productions on a thrust stage, he paid fresh attention to the structure of the drama. In the early twentieth century, Harley Granville - Barker directed quarto and folio texts with few cuts, while Edward Gordon Craig and others called for abstract staging. Both approaches have influenced the variety of Shakespearian production styles seen today. See also Chronology of Shakespeare 's plays Elizabethan era Globe Theatre List of Shakespearean characters Shakespeare on screen Shakespeare 's late romances The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Music in the plays of William Shakespeare Shakespeare in Love References Jump up ^ Will in the World : How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt, W.W. Norton & Company, 2004, page 34. Jump up ^ Baldwin, T.W. Shakspere 's Small Latine and Less Greek, ( Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1944 ), 499 -- 532 ). Jump up ^ Doran, Madeleine, Endeavors of Art ( Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1954 ), 160 -- 171. Jump up ^ Gurr, pp. 123 -- 31 and 142 - 6. 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External links Wikisource has original works written by or about : William Shakespeare Complete text of Shakespeare 's plays, listed by genre Complete list of shakespeare plays with synopsis Narrative and Dramatic Sources of all Shakespeare 's works Also publication years and chronology of Shakespeare plays Folger Digital Texts The Shakespeare Resource Center A directory of Web resources for online Shakespearean study. Includes play synopses, a works timeline, and language resources. Shake Sphere Summary and analysis of all the plays, including those of questionable authorship, such as Edward III, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Cardenio. Shakespeare at the British Library - online resource including images of original manuscripts, new articles and teaching resources. William Shakespeare Plays Tragedies Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Comedies All 's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love 's Labour 's Lost Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night 's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre * The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen * The Winter 's Tale Histories King John Edward III * Richard II Henry IV Henry V Henry VI 1 * Richard III Henry VIII * See also Problem plays Late romances Characters A -- K L -- Z Ghost character Chronology Performances Settings Quarto publications First Folio Second Folio Poems Shakespeare 's sonnets comparison to Petrarch A Lover 's Complaint The Phoenix and the Turtle The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis Apocrypha Plays Arden of Faversham The Birth of Merlin Cardenio * Double Falsehood Edmund Ironside Fair Em Locrine The London Prodigal Love 's Labour 's Won The Merry Devil of Edmonton Mucedorus The Puritan The Second Maiden 's Tragedy Sejanus His Fall Sir John Oldcastle Sir Thomas More * The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Lord Cromwell Thomas of Woodstock Vortigern and Rowena A Yorkshire Tragedy Poems The Passionate Pilgrim To the Queen Life and works Birthplace and childhood home Bibliography Complete Works of William Shakespeare Translations Early editions Editors English Renaissance theatre Globe Theatre Handwriting Lord Chamberlain 's Men / King 's Men The Theatre Curtain Theatre New Place Portraits Religious views Sexuality Spelling of his name Stratford - upon - Avon Style Legacy Attribution studies Authorship question Influence Memorials Screen adaptations Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Folger Shakespeare Library Shakespeare Quarterly Shakespeare 's Globe ( replica ) Bardolatry Titles of works taken from Shakespeare Family Anne Hathaway ( wife ) Susanna Hall ( daughter ) Hamnet Shakespeare ( son ) Judith Quiney ( daughter ) Elizabeth Barnard ( granddaughter ) John Shakespeare ( father ) Mary Arden ( mother ) Gilbert Shakespeare ( brother ) Joan Shakespeare ( sister ) Edmund Shakespeare ( brother ) Richard Shakespeare ( grandfather ) John Hall ( son - in - law ) Thomas Quiney ( son - in - law ) Thomas Nash ( grandson - in - law ) * Shakespeare and other authors Lost Shakespeare 's plays Shakespearean tragedy William Shakespeare 's Antony and Cleopatra Characters Mark Antony Octavius Caesar Lepidus Cleopatra Sextus Pompey Domitius Enobarbus Ventidius Canidius Scarus Octavia Maecenas Agrippa Taurus Dolabella Gallus Menas Charmian Sources Parallel Lives Stage adaptations The False One ( c. 1620 ) All for Love ( 1677 ) Opera Antony and Cleopatra ( 1966 ) On screen 1908 1913 1959 ( TV ) The Spread of the Eagle ( 1963 ; TV ) 1972 1974 ( TV ) 1981 ( TV ) Related Cultural depictions of Cleopatra Cultural depictions of Augustus Salad days Asp Thomas North Cleopatra ( 1912 ) Cleopatra ( 1917 ) Roman Tragedies ( 2007 ) William Shakespeare 's Coriolanus Characters Historical Caius Martius Coriolanus Menenius Agrippa Cominius Titus Lartius Sicinius Velutus Junius Brutus Tullus Aufidius Fictional Volumnia Virgilia Sources Roman Antiquities Parallel Lives Ab Urbe Condita Policraticus A Mervalious Combat of Contrarieties ( William Averell ) Adaptations Coriolanus ( 1953 ) The Spread of the Eagle ( 1963 ; TV ) The Tragedy of Coriolanus ( 1984 ; TV ) Coriolanus ( 2011 ) Related Veturia Thomas North Roman Tragedies ( 2007 ) William Shakespeare 's Cymbeline Characters Cymbeline Queen Imogen Posthumus Leonatus Cloten Belarius Guiderius Arvirargus Jupiter Sources Historia Regum Britanniae ( c. 1136 ) The Decameron ( c. 1353 ) Holinshed 's Chronicles ( 1577 ) Adaptations Cymbeline ( 1982 ; TV ) Cymbeline ( 2014 ) Related Shakespeare 's late romances Philaster ( c. 1609 ) Deus ex machina Milford Haven William Shakespeare 's Hamlet Characters Hamlet Claudius Gertrude Ghost Polonius Laertes Ophelia Horatio Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Fortinbras The Gravediggers Yorick Soliloquies `` To be, or not to be '' `` Mortal coil '' `` What a piece of work is a man '' `` Speak the speech '' Words and phrases `` The lady doth protest too much, methinks '' `` Thy name is '' `` Primrose path '' Terminology Dumbshow Induction Quiddity Substitution Sources Criticism Legend of Hamlet The Spanish Tragedy Ur - Hamlet Critical approaches Bibliographies Horwendill Saxo Grammaticus House of Gonzaga Damon and Pythias Influence Common phrases from Hamlet Hamlet in popular culture References to Ophelia Language of flowers Human skull symbolism Performances Moscow Art Theatre ( 1911 -- 1912 ) Richard Burton ( 1964 ) On screen 1900 1907 1908 1912 1913 1917 1921 1935 1948 1954 1961 1964 1969 1990 2000 2011 Adaptations Films The Rest Is Silence ( 1959 ) The Bad Sleep Well ( 1960 ) Ophelia ( 1963 ) Johnny Hamlet ( 1968 ) One Hamlet Less ( 1973 ) The Angel of Vengeance -- The Female Hamlet ( 1977 ) Strange Brew ( 1983 ) Hamlet Goes Business ( 1987 ) The Lion King ( 1994 ) Let the Devil Wear Black ( 1999 ) The Banquet ( 2006 ) Tardid ( 2009 ) Karmayogi ( 2012 ) Haider ( 2014 ) Hamlet A.D.D. ( 2014 ) Ophelia ( 2018 ) The Lion King ( 2019 ) Novels Gertrude and Claudius ( 2000 ) Dating Hamlet ( 2002 ) Ophelia 's Revenge ( 2003 ) The Dead Fathers Club ( 2006 ) Something Rotten ( 2007 ) Hamlet 's Father ( 2008 ) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle ( 2008 ) Plays Hamletmachine ( 1977 ) Dogg 's Hamlet ( 1979 ) Fortinbras ( 1991 ) Musicals Rockabye Hamlet ( 1973 ) The Lion King ( 1997 ) Television Hamlet ( Australian TV, 1959 ) Hamlet at Elsinore ( BBC, 1964 ) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ( BBC, 1980 ) Hamlet ( BBC 2, animated, 1992 ) Hamlet ( BBC 2, 2009 ) Parodies 15 - Minute Hamlet The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ( Abridged ) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Io, Amleto The Klingon Hamlet `` Lyle the Kindly Viking '' To Be or Not to Be : That is the Adventure `` Tales from the Public Domain '' Hamlet Had an Uncle Songs `` My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone '' ( 16th century ) `` Pull Me Under '' ( 1992 ) `` Song for Athene '' ( 1997 ) Opera / classical Hamlet ( Thomas ) Amleto ( Faccio ) Hamlet ( Tchaikovsky ) Tristia ( Berlioz ) Die Hamletmaschine ( Rihm ) Hamlet ( Dean ) Story within a story Films To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 ) Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja ( 1973 ) To Be or Not to Be ( 1983 ) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ( 1990 ) Highlander II : The Quickening ( 1991 ) Last Action Hero ( 1993 ) Renaissance Man ( 1994 ) In the Bleak Midwinter ( 1995 ) War ( 2002 ) Hamlet 2 ( 2008 ) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead ( 2009 ) Three Days ( 2012 ) Plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ( 1966 ) Stage Blood ( 1974 ) I Hate Hamlet ( 1991 ) To Be or Not to Be ( 2008 ) Novels Hamlet, Revenge ! ( 1937 ) Theatre of War ( 1994 ) `` The Undiscovered '' ( 1997 ) The Shakespeare Stealer ( 1998 ) Interred with Their Bones ( 2007 ) Television `` The Producer '' ( 1966 ) `` The Conscience of the King '' ( 1966 ) `` Born to Be King '' ( 1983 ) `` Terrance and Phillip : Behind the Blow '' ( 2001 ) Slings & Arrows ( 2003 ) Art Ophelia Affe mit Schädel Video game Last Action Hero ( 1993 ) Hamlet ( 2010 ) Intertextuality Asterix and the Great Crossing The Seagull Sharpe 's Havoc Related Hamlet and Oedipus Hamlet and His Problems Hebenon Hamlet Q1 Ostalo je ćutanje The Chronicles of Amber `` Symphony No. 65 '' ( Haydn ) The Hobart Shakespeareans Gertrude -- The Cry Poor Murderer Something Rotten ! William Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar Characters Julius Caesar Mark Antony Octavius Lepidus Flavius Marullus Cicero Calpurnia Portia Cinna Titinius Messala Young Cato Volumnius Conspirators Marcus Brutus Cassius Casca Decius Brutus Cinna Metellus Cimber Trebonius Caius Ligarius Sources Parallel Lives On screen 1950 1953 The Spread of the Eagle ( 1963 ; TV ) 1970 1979 ( TV ) 1994 ( TV ) Adaptations La morte di Cesare ( 1788 ) Shakespeare Writing `` Julius Caesar '' ( 1907 ) Caesar ( 1937 ) Die Ermordung Cäsars ( 1959 ) Dead Caesar ( 2007 ) The Karaoke King ( 2007 ) Roman Tragedies ( 2007 ) Quotes `` The dogs of war '' `` Et tu, Brute ? '' `` Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears '' `` Greek to me '' Music Julius Caesar ( overture, 1851 ) Related Cultural depictions of Julius Caesar Assassination of Julius Caesar Caesar 's Comet Ides of March Battle of Philippi Me and Orson Welles ( 2008 ) Caesar Must Die ( 2012 ) William Shakespeare 's King Lear Characters King Lear Cordelia Goneril Regan Edmund Sources Historia Regum Britanniae ( 1136 ) The Mirror for Magistrates ( 1555 ) Holinshed 's Chronicles ( 1577 ) King Leir ( 1594 ) `` Water and Salt '' Related Llŷr Leir of Britain Cordelia of Britain Adaptations Plays The History of King Lear ( 1681 ) The Yiddish King Lear ( 1892 ) Safed Khoon ( 1907 ) Lear ( 1971 ) Novels La Terre ( 1887 ) A Thousand Acres ( 1991 ) Fool ( 2009 ) Opera Re Lear ( Libretto only ) ( 1896 ) Lear ( 1978 ) Kuningas Lear ( 2000 ) Films King Lear ( 1910 ) King Lear ( 1916 ) Gunasundari Katha ( 1949 ) King Lear ( 1971 USSR ) King Lear ( 1971 UK ) Ran ( 1985 ) King Lear ( 1987 ) A Thousand Acres ( 1997 ) Gypsy Lore ( 1997 ) King Lear ( 1999 ) My Kingdom ( 2001 ) Second Generation ( 2003 ) Life Goes On ( 2009 ) Television King Lear ( 1953 ) BBC Television Shakespeare ( 1982 ) King Lear ( 1983 ) King of Texas ( 2002 ) King Lear ( 2008 ) Story within a story The Dresser ( 1980 play ) The Dresser ( 1983 film ) The Dresser ( 2015 film ) Other Tiriel ( 1789, poem ) The Prince of the Pagodas ( 1957, ballet ) The Tragedy of King Lear ( screenplay ) William Shakespeare 's Macbeth Characters Macbeth Lady Macbeth Banquo Macduff King Duncan Malcolm Donalbain Three Witches Fleance Lady Macduff Macduff 's son Third Murderer Young Siward Inspirations Macbeth, King of Scotland Gruoch of Scotland Duncan I of Scotland Malcolm III of Scotland Donald III of Scotland Siward, Earl of Northumbria King James VI and I Sources Daemonologie ( 1597 ) The Witch ( play ) Holinshed 's Chronicles Darraðarljóð Film 1908 1909 ( French ) 1909 ( Italian ) 1911 1913 1915 1916 1922 1948 1971 2006 2015 Cancelled ( Olivier ) Television 1954 1960 US TV 1960 Australian TV 1961 1979 1982 1992 2005 TV / film adaptations The Real Thing at Last ( 1916 ) Marmayogi ( 1951 ) Joe MacBeth ( 1955 ) Throne of Blood ( 1957 ) Macbeth ( Verdi opera ) ( 1987 ) Men of Respect ( 1990 ) Scotland, PA ( 2001 ) Makibefo ( 2001 ) Maqbool ( 2003 ) Shakespeare Must Die ( 2012 ) Veeram ( 2016 ) Plays Voodoo Macbeth ( 1936 ) MacBird ! ( 1967 ) uMabatha ( 1970 ) Macbett ( 1972 ) Cahoot 's Macbeth ( 1979 ) MacHomer ( 1995 ) Sleep No More ( 2003 ) Sleep No More ( 2009 ) Dunsinane ( 2010 ) Sleep No More ( 2011 ) Just Macbeth ! Operas Macbeth ( 1847, Verdi ) discography Macbeth ( 1910, Bloch ) Literary adaptations Wyrd Sisters ( 1988 ) The Last King of Scotland ( 1998 ) The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II ( 2008 ) Albums Music from Macbeth ( 1972 ) Macbeth ( 1990 ) Thane to the Throne ( 2000 ) Shakespeare 's Macbeth -- A Tragedy in Steel ( 2003 ) Lady Macbeth ( 2005 ) Art Pity ( 1795 ) The Night of Enitharmon 's Joy ( 1795 ) Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth ( 1889 ) Scenes and speeches `` On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth '' ( 1823 ) Sleepwalking Scene ( 5.1 ) `` Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow '' Words and phrases `` What 's done is done '' `` Crack of doom '' `` Strange but true '' The Scottish Play Thane of Cawdor Story within a story We Work Again Light Thickens The Deadly Affair `` The Movies '' `` Sleeping with the Enemy '' `` The Shower Principle '' Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine The Scottish Play Burke & Hare Episodes `` A Witch 's Tangled Hare '' ( 1959, Looney Tunes ) `` The Bellero Shield '' ( 1964, The Outer Limits ) `` Sense and Senility '' ( 1987, Blackadder the Third ) `` The Coup '' ( 2006, The Office ) `` Dial `` N '' for Nerder '' ( 2008, The Simpsons ) `` Four Great Women and a Manicure '' ( 2009, The Simpsons ) `` The Understudy '' ( 2014, Inside No. 9 ) Other Macbeth ( Strauss ) The Scottish Play Piano Trios, Op. 70 ( Beethoven ) The Ruins of Cawdor House of Cards ( UK, 1990 ) House of Cards ( US, 2013 -- present ) William Shakespeare 's Othello Characters Othello Desdemona Iago Cassio Emilia Bianca Roderigo Brabantio Other characters Source Della descrittione dell'Africa ( 1550 ) by Leo Africanus `` Un Capitano Moro '' from Gli Hecatommithi ( 1565 ) by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Sampiero Corso Opera and ballet adaptations Otello ( 1816 ; opera ) Otello ( 1887 ; opera ) Othello ( 1892 ; overture ) The Moor 's Pavane ( 1949 ; ballet ) Othello ( 1998 ; ballet score ) Bandanna ( 1999 ; opera ) Films 1922 1951 1955 1965 1995 TV 1965 1981 1990 1994 Stage adaptations Masquerade ( 1835 ) Othello ( 1951 ) Catch My Soul ( US ; 1969 ) Catch My Soul ( UK ; 1970 ) Film adaptations Jubal ( 1956 ) All Night Long ( 1962 ) Catch My Soul ( 1974 ) Kaliyattam ( 1997 ) O ( 2001 ) Eloise ( 2002 ) Souli ( 2004 ) Omkara ( 2006 ) Jarum Halus ( 2008 ) From Verdi Otello ( 1906 ; film ) Othello Ballet Suite / Electronic Organ Sonata No. 1 ( 1967 ; ballet suite ) Otello ( 1986 ; film ) The Othello Syndrome ( 2008 ; album ) Art Othello Phrases `` Beast with two backs '' Related Othello error Filming Othello Red Velvet The Duke of Milan Love 's Sacrifice Desdemona Goodnight Desdemona Story within a story Carnival ( 1921 film ) Carnival ( 1931 film ) The Deceiver ( 1931 ) Men Are Not Gods ( 1936 ) A Double Life ( 1947 ) Saptapadi ( 1961 ) The Dresser ( 1980 play ) The Dresser ( 1983 film ) An Imaginary Tale ( 1990 ) The Dresser ( 2015 film ) William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet Characters Romeo Juliet Mercutio Tybalt Benvolio Friar Laurence Nurse Paris Rosaline Queen Mab Atomy Sources The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet Pyramus and Thisbe Palace of Pleasure Troilus and Criseyde Ballets Romeo and Juliet ( 1938, Prokofiev ) Romeo and Juliet ( 1962, Cranko ) Romeo and Juliet ( 1965, MacMillan ) Romeo and Juliet ( 1977, Nureyev ) Romeo and Juliet ( 1965, Lavery ) Radio and Juliet ( 2005 ) Romeo + Juliet ( 2007, Martins ) Romeo and Juliet ( 2008, Pastor ) Operas Romeo und Julie ( 1776, Benda ) Giulietta e Romeo ( 1796, Zingarelli ) Giulietta e Romeo ( 1825, Vaccai ) I Capuleti ei Montecchi ( 1830, Bellini ) Gloria ( 1874, Cilea ) Roméo et Juliette ( 1867, Gounod ) A Village Romeo and Juliet ( 1907, Delius ) Romeo und Julia ( 1940, Sutermeister ) Musicals The Belle of Mayfair ( 1906 ) West Side Story ( 1957 ) Once on This Island ( 1990 ) Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour ( 2001 ) Giulietta e Romeo ( 2007 ) Classical Beethoven 's String Quartet No. 1 ( c. 1800 ) Roméo et Juliette ( 1839, Berlioz ) Romeo and Juliet ( 1870, Tchaikovsky ) On screen 1900 1908 1916 Metro Pictures 1916 Fox 1936 1953 1954 1955 1968 1978 ( TV ) 1992 ( TV ) 2006 2007 2013 Film adaptations English Beneath the 12 - Mile Reef ( 1953 ) Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ) West Side Story ( 1961 ) Gonks Go Beat ( 1965 ) Lonesome Cowboys ( 1968 ) Romie - 0 and Julie - 8 ( TV ; 1979 ) The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ( 1982 ) Valley Girl ( 1983 ) Bullies ( 1986 ) China Girl ( 1987 ) Romeo. Juliet ( 1990 ) Tromeo and Juliet ( 1996 ) Love Is All There Is ( 1996 ) Rose by Any Other Name... ( 1997 ) The Lion King II : Simba 's Pride ( 1998 ) Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ) The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns ( 1999 ) Romeo Must Die ( 2000 ) Brooklyn Babylon ( 2001 ) Pizza My Heart ( TV ; 2005 ) West Bank Story ( 2005 ) Life and Lyrics ( 2006 ) Romeo & Juliet : Sealed with a Kiss ( 2006 ) Rome & Jewel ( 2006 ) David & Fatima ( 2008 ) The Cross Road ( 2008 ) Vicious Circle ( 2008 ) Gnomeo & Juliet ( 2011 ) Private Romeo ( 2011 ) Warm Bodies ( 2013 ) Make Your Move ( 2013 ) Romeo & Juliet ( 2013 ) Hindi Ek Duuje Ke Liye ( 1981 ) Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak ( 1988 ) Saudagar ( 1991 ) Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein ( 2002 ) Bollywood Queen ( 2002 ) Ishaqzaade ( 2012 ) Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram - Leela ( 2013 ) Issaq ( 2013 ) Telugu Maro Charitra ( 1978 ) Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi ( 1996 ) Kalisundam Raa ( 2000 ) Maro Charitra ( 2010 ) Spanish Romeo and Juliet ( 1940 ) Los Tarantos ( 1963 ) 30 : e november ( Swedish / Spanish 1995 ) Amar te duele ( 2002 ) Italian Fury of Johnny Kid ( 1967 ) Ma che musica maestro ( 1971 ) Portuguese Mônica e Cebolinha : No Mundo de Romeu e Julieta ( 1979 ) O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta ( 2005 ) Other Ambikapathy ( Tamil 1937 ) Les amants de Vérone ( French 1949 ) Romeo, Juliet and Darkness ( Czech 1960 ) The Phantom Lover ( Mandarin 1995 ) Chicken Rice War ( Cantonese / English 2000 ) Ondagona Baa ( Kannada 2003 ) Mamay ( Ukrainian 2003 ) The District ! ( Hungarian 2004 ) In Fair Palestine : A Story of Romeo and Juliet ( 2006 ) The Bubble ( Hebrew / Arabic 2006 ) Priyatama ( Marathi 2014 ) Arshinagar ( Bengali 2015 ) Eeda ( Malayalam 2017 ) The Sea Prince and the Fire Child ( Japanese 1981 ) TV series Sons and Daughters ( 1982 ) Family and Friends ( 1990 ) Villa Quintana ( 1995 ) Yo amo a Paquita Gallego ( 1998 ) Skin ( 2003 ) A Touch Away ( 2006 ) Dangerous ( 2007 ) Romeo × Juliet ( 2007 ) Romeo y Julieta ( 2007 ) Saints & Sinners ( 2007 ) Harina de otro costal ( 2010 ) Villa Quintana ( 2013 ) Westside ( 2013 pilot ) Star - Crossed ( 2014 ) Still Star - Crossed ( 2017 ) Plays Romanoff and Juliet ( 1956 ) Romeo and Juliet ( 2013 ) Songs Lan và Điệp ( 1930s ) `` Montagues and Capulets '' ( 1935 ) `` Fever '' ( 1956 ) Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ) `` ( Do n't Fear ) The Reaper '' ( 1976 ) `` Angelo '' ( 1978 ) `` Romeo and Juliet '' ( 1978 ) `` Romeo and Juliet '' ( 1981 ) `` Cherish '' ( 1989 ) `` Amor Prohibido '' ( 1994 ) `` Kissing You '' ( 1996 ) `` Exit Music '' ( 1997 ) `` Romeo and Juliet '' ( 1998 ) `` Starcrossed '' ( 2004 ) `` Peut - être toi '' ( 2006 ) `` Mademoiselle Juliette '' ( 2007 ) `` Love Story '' ( 2008 ) `` Love Me Again '' `` Laal Ishq '' `` Mor Bani Thanghat Kare '' `` Nagada Sang Dhol '' `` Ram Chahe Leela '' ( 2013 ) Albums Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ) Romeo + Juliet ( 1996 ) Romeo & Julia ( 2006 ) Tragic Lovers ( 2008 ) Literature Les Chouans The Wandering Jew ( 1844 ) The Stolen Dormouse ( 1941 ) The Faraway Lurs ( 1963 ) Romiette and Julio ( 2001 ) New Moon ( 2006 ) Warm Bodies ( 2010 ) Art Romeo and Juliet : the Tomb Scene ( 1790 ) Romeo and Juliet ( 1978 ) Phrases `` Star - crossed '' `` A rose by any other name would smell as sweet '' Story within a story Nicholas Nickleby 1912 film 1947 film 1980 play 2001 film 2002 film The Picture of Dorian Gray 1910 film 1913 film 1915 film 1916 film 1917 film 1918 film 1945 film 1976 TV special 2009 film Harlequinade W Juliet `` Nothing Broken but My Heart '' Panic Button Bare : A Pop Opera `` '' Into the Light '' Bolji život The Sky Is Everywhere Pay as You Exit The White Mercedes She Died a Lady `` Moonshine River '' Rendez - vous Fame `` I Am Unicorn '' The Frog Prince Molly Smart Girls Get What They Want Tumbleweeds `` The Thief of Baghead '' The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke Prince Charming Km. 0 Phileine Says Sorry Hamateur Night `` Say You 'll Be Mine '' Into the Gauntlet Wandering Son K - On ! Foreign stories Adam Khan and Durkhanai Tum Teav Yusuf Khan and Sherbano Solomon & Gaenor Butterfly Lovers Hani and Sheh Mureed Lục Vân Tiên film Teav Aek Layla and Majnun Lovers of Teruel film Lord Saltoun and Auchanachie Ishaqzaade Other Such Tweet Sorrow Romeo and Juliet effect After Juliet `` Upper West Side Story '' ( 2012 ) Millennium Dome Show Inge Sylten and Heinz Drosihn Boys Do n't Cry My Wedding and Other Secrets Donkey in Lahore Upside Down Letters to Juliet Sherlock Gnomes Book : Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 's Timon of Athens Characters Timon Alcibiades Apemantus Sources Palace of Pleasure ( 1566 ) Adaptations Timon ( 1973 ) Timon of Athens ( 1981 ) Revisions The History of Timon of Athens the Man - hater ( 1677 ) William Shakespeare 's Titus Andronicus Characters Titus Andronicus Tamora Aaron Lavinia Emperor Saturninus Marcus Lucius Sources Ab Urbe Condita ( c. 26 BC ) Metamorphoses ( c.AD 8 ) Thyestes ( first century AD ) Gesta Romanorum ( late third century AD ) Adaptations Titus Andronicus ( 1985 ; TV ) Titus ( 1999 ) `` Scott Tenorman Must Die '' ( 2001 ; TV ) The Hungry ( 2017 ) Related Peacham drawing Authorship question Themes `` Titus Andronicus ' Complaint '' George Peele Philomela Thyestes Revenge play Grand Guignol Gorboduc ( 1561 ) Edmund Ironside ( 1590 ) Jan Vos Titus ( soundtrack ) William Shakespeare 's Troilus and Cressida Characters Trojans Priam Hector Deiphobus Helenus Paris Troilus Cassandra Andromache Aeneas Pandarus Cressida Calchas Helen Greeks Agamemnon Menelaus Nestor Ulysses Achilles Patroclus Diomedes Ajax Thersites Myrmidons Sources Troilus and Criseyde Troy Book Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye Adaptations The Face of Love ( 1954, TV ) Troilus and Cressida ( 1981, TV ) Related Trojan War Trojan War in popular culture Achilles and Patroclus Shakespearean problem play `` Bitch '' Shakespearean comedy William Shakespeare 's All 's Well That Ends Well Characters Bertram Countess of Roussillon Helen Rinaldo Lavatch Paroles King of France Lafeu Duke of Florence Widow Diana Mariana Sources The Decameron ( c. 1353 ) Palace of Pleasure ( 1566 ) Adaptations All 's Well That Ends Well ( 1981 ; TV ) Related Shakespearean problem play Diana Alazôn Bed trick William Shakespeare 's As You Like It Characters Rosalind Orlando Celia Jaques Touchstone Screen 1912 1936 1978 ( TV ) 1994 ( TV ) 2006 Related `` All the world 's a stage '' William Shakespeare 's The Comedy of Errors Characters Antipholus of Syracuse Antipholus of Ephesus Dromio of Syracuse Dromio of Ephesus Adriana Luciana Egeon Emilia Solinus Sources Menaechmi Amphitryon Apollonius of Tyre Opera and musicals Gli equivoci ( 1786 ) The Boys from Syracuse ( 1938 ) Pozdvižení v Efesu ( 1943 ) The Comedy of Errors ( 1976 ) The Bomb - itty of Errors ( 2000 ) Film / TV The Boys from Syracuse ( 1940 ) Bhranti Bilas ( 1963 ) Do Dooni Char ( 1968 ) Angoor ( 1982 ) The Comedy of Errors ( 1983 ; TV ) Big Business ( 1988 ) Ulta Palta ( 1997 ) Bade Miyan Chote Miyan ( 1998 ) Dam Dama Dam ( 1998 ) Ulta Palta ( 1998 ) Heeralal Pannalal ( 1999 ) Double Di Trouble ( 2014 ) Related Classical unities Gesta Grayorum ( 1688 ) The Flying Karamazov Brothers William Shakespeare 's Love 's Labour 's Lost Characters King Ferdinand of Navarre Lord Berowne Lord Longaville Lord Dumaine Princess of France Lady Rosaline Lady Maria Lady Katharine Boyet Don Adriano de Armado Moth Sir Nathaniel Holofernes Dull Costard Jaquenetta Marcadé Adaptations Love 's Labor Lost ( animated ; 1920 ) Love 's Labour 's Lost ( opera ; 1973 ) Love 's Labour 's Lost ( TV ; 1985 ) Love 's Labour 's Lost ( film ; 2000 ) Related Love 's Labour 's Won Honorificabilitudinitatibus Nine Worthies The School of Night Robert Tofte The Princess ( poem ; 1847 ) William Shakespeare 's Measure for Measure Characters Angelo Adaptations The Law Against Lovers ( 1662 ) Das Liebesverbot ( 1834 ) Round Heads and Pointed Heads ( 1936 ) Measure for Measure ( 1943 ) Measure for Measure ( 1979 ; TV ) Desperate Measures ( 2004 ) Art Mariana ( Millais ) Related Mariana ( Tennyson ) Bletting Bed trick Shakespearean problem play William Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice Characters Shylock Antonio Portia Jessica Sources Gesta Romanorum ( late 13th century ) Il Pecorone ( late 14th century ) by Giovanni Fiorentino The Jew of Malta ( 1590 ) by Christopher Marlowe On screen 1914 1916 1923 Shylock ( 1941 ) 1961 1969 1980 ( TV ) One Man Band ( unfinished ) Adaptations Le marchand de Venise ( 1935, opera ) Shylock ( 1987, musical ) The Merchant of Venice ( 1982, opera ) Derivative works Serenade to Music ( 1938 ) Shylock ( 1996 ) Yasser ( 2001 ) The Maori Merchant of Venice ( 2002 ) Related `` All that glitters is not gold '' `` All the world 's a stage '' `` Between you and I '' Quibble Letter and spirit of the law `` Ding Dong Bell '' `` The quality of mercy '' William Shakespeare 's The Merry Wives of Windsor Characters Falstaff Mistress Quickly Ancient Pistol Bardolph Robert Shallow Corporal Nym Film / Television The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1950 ) Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1953 ) The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1982 ; TV ) Opera / Musical Falstaff ( 1799 ) The Merry Wives of Windsor ( 1849 ) Falstaff ( 1893 ) Sir John in Love ( 1929 ) Lone Star Love ( 2004 ) William Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night 's Dream Characters Lovers Theseus and Hippolyta Oberon and Titania Hermia and Lysander Helena and Demetrius Mechanicals Nick Bottom Peter Quince Francis Flute Robin Starveling Tom Snout Snug Other characters Puck Egeus Philostrate Film 1909 1935 1959 1968 1999 Television 1969 1980 1992 1994 2016 Stage A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1970, play ) The Park ( 1983, play ) The Donkey Show ( 1999, musical ) The Dreaming ( 2001, musical ) Ballet A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1962 ) The Dream ( 1964 ) Opera The Fairy - Queen ( 1692 ) Pyramus and Thisbe ( 1745 ) Puck ( 1949 ) A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1960, opera ) The Enchanted Island ( 2011 ) Film adaptations Wood Love ( 1925 ) Dream of a Summer Night ( 1983 ) Get Over It ( 2001 ) A Midsummer Night 's Rave ( 2002 ) Midsummer Dream ( 2005 ) Were the World Mine ( 2008 ) Strange Magic ( 2015 ) Other adaptations The Triumph of Beauty ( 1646 ) St. John 's Eve ( 1852 ) `` Fascination '' ( 1994 ) Literature A Midsummer Tempest ( 1974 ) A Midsummer Night 's Gene ( 1997 ) A Midsummer 's Nightmare ( 1997 ) Lords and Ladies ( 1992 ) The Great Night ( 2011 ) Comics Auberon Faerie Titania Music A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1842, Mendelssohn ) Wedding March ( 1842, Mendelssohn ) Three Shakespeare Songs ( 1951 ) Symphony No. 8 ( 1992, Henze ) Il Sogno ( 2004 ) Art Hermia and Lysander The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania Scene from A Midsummer Night 's Dream Related The Sandman : Dream Country ( 1991 ) Pyramus and Thisbe Mechanical Love - in - idleness The Apartment ( 1996 ) Wicker Park ( 2004 ) William Shakespeare 's Much Ado About Nothing Characters Don Pedro Dogberry Adaptations Screen 1984 ( TV ) 2005 ( TV ) 2012 Opera Béatrice et Bénédict ( 1862 ) Much Ado About Nothing ( opera ) ( 1901 ) Musical Much Ado ( 1995 ) The Boys Are Coming Home ( 2005 ) Adaptations The Law Against Lovers ( 1662 ) Dil Chahta Hai ( 2001 ) Related Dogberryism `` Curiosity killed the cat '' Pleaching William Shakespeare 's Pericles, Prince of Tyre Characters John Gower Diana Sources Confessio Amantis ( 1390 ) The Pattern of Painful Adventures ( 1576 ) Adaptations Pericles, Prince of Tyre ( 1984 ; TV ) Related George Wilkins Shakespeare 's late romances Shakespeare Apocrypha Apollonius of Tyre The Pattern of Painful Adventures ( 2008 ; radio ) First water William Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew Characters Katherina Minola Petruchio Bianca Minola Baptista Minola Christopher Sly Stage adaptations The Woman 's Prize ( c1611 ) Catharine and Petruchio ( 1754 ) Las bravías ( 1896 ) Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung ( 1872 ) Sly, ovvero La leggenda del dormiente risvegliato ( 1927 ) Kiss Me, Kate ( 1948 ) The Taming of the Shrew ( 1953 ) Ukroshchenye Stroptivoy ( 1957 ) Christopher Sly ( 1963 ) Direct adaptations 1908 1929 1962 ( TV ) 1967 1980 ( TV ) 1994 ( TV ) Other adaptations Daring Youth ( 1924 ) You Made Me Love You ( 1933 ) Second Best Bed ( 1938 ) Kiss Me Kate ( 1953 ) Abba Aa Hudugi ( 1959 ) Gundamma Katha ( 1962 ) Manithan Maravillai ( 1962 ) McLintock ! ( 1963 ) Arivaali ( 1963 ) Pattikada Pattanama ( 1972 ) Il Bisbetico Domato ( 1980 ) Nanjundi Kalyana ( 1989 ) 10 Things I Hate About You ( 1999 ) O Cravo ea Rosa ( 2000 ; TV ) Deliver Us from Eva ( 2003 ) The Taming of the Shrew ( 2005 ; TV ) Frivolous Wife ( 2008 ) 10 Things I Hate About You ( 2009 ; TV ) Isi Life Mein ( 2010 ) Related The Taming of the Shrew in performance The Taming of the Shrew on screen Shrew ( stock character ) Induction Love - in - idleness William Shakespeare 's The Tempest Characters Prospero Miranda Ariel Caliban Sycorax Ferdinand Gonzalo Stephano Sources A True Reportory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates, Knight Decades of the New World Montaigne 's Essays Ovid 's Metamorphoses Erasmus 's Naufragium Commedia dell'arte Sea Venture Films 1911 1963 1979 Adaptations Music Three Shakespeare Songs ( Vaughan Williams ) The Tempest ( Sullivan ) The Tempest ( Sibelius ) The Tempest ( Tchaikovsky ) The Tempest ( ballet ) ( Nordheim ) `` Do n't Pay the Ferryman '' ( 1982 ) Screen Yellow Sky ( 1948 ) Forbidden Planet ( 1956 ) Tempest ( 1982 ) The Journey to Melonia ( 1989 ) Prospero 's Books ( 1991 ) Painting Scene from Shakespeare 's The Tempest ( Hogarth ) Ferdinand Lured by Ariel ( Millais ) Musicals Beach Blanket Tempest Return to the Forbidden Planet Amaluna Plays The Tempest ( Dryden ) The Sea Voyage The Mock Tempest ( 1674 Duffet ) Une Tempête ( 1969 Césaire ) The Sea ( play ) ( 1973 ) I 'll Be The Devil ( 2008 ) Opera The Tempest ( 1756 Smith ) Die Geisterinsel ( libretto 1796 ) Die Geisterinsel ( 1798 Reichardt ) Die Geisterinsel ( 1805 Zumsteeg ) Der Sturm ( 1955 Martin ) Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs ( 1991 Nyman ) The Tempest ( Adès 2004 ) The Enchanted Island ( 2011 Sams ) Poetry and prose fiction Caliban upon Setebos ( Browning ) The Sea and the Mirror ( Auden ) Indigo ( Warner ) A Midsummer Tempest ( Anderson ) Island ( Rogers ) Hag - Seed ( Atwood ) Phrases `` Ariel 's Song '' `` Brave new world '' `` Ding Dong Bell '' `` Full fathom five '' `` Sea change '' `` What 's past is prologue '' Sculpture The Tempest ( 1966 ) William Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night Characters Viola Orsino Olivia Sebastian Malvolio Maria Sir Toby Belch Sir Andrew Aguecheek Feste On screen 1933 1955 1966 1980 ( TV ) 1986 1988 ( TV ) 1992 ( TV ) Musical Your Own Thing ( 1968 ) Music Is ( 1976 ) Play On ! ( 1997 ) Illyria ( 2004 ) All Shook Up ( 2004 ) Adaptations Just One of the Guys ( 1985 ) Motocrossed ( 2001 ) She 's the Man ( 2006 ) Dil Bole Hadippa ! ( 2009 ) Opera Viola ( unfinished ) Story within a story `` Grace '' ( 2011 ) William Shakespeare 's The Two Gentlemen of Verona Characters Valentine Proteus Julia Silvia Launce Speed Crab Sources The Boke Named the Governour ( 1531 ) Los Siete Libros de la Diana ( 1559 ) Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit ( 1578 ) The Countess of Pembroke 's Arcadia ( 1580 ) Theatrical adaptations Two Gentlemen of Verona ( 1971 ) Screen adaptations A Spray of Plum Blossoms ( 1931 ) The Two Gentlemen of Verona ( TV ; 1983 ) Related Proteus Jorge de Montemor Stuart Draper `` An Sylvia '' ( 1826 ) Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ) The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia ? ( 2002 ) William Shakespeare 's The Two Noble Kinsmen Characters Theseus Hippolyta Emilia Pirithous Palamon Arcite Hymen Lafeu Artesius Valerius Jailer Doctor Gerald Nell Timothy Sources `` The Knight 's Tale '' The Canterbury Tales Related Shakespeare Apocrypha Shakespeare 's late romances John Fletcher Creon William Davenant Stoolball The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray 's Inn ( 1613 ) William Shakespeare 's The Winter 's Tale Characters Leontes Perdita Florizel Sources The Countess of Pembroke 's Arcadia ( c. 1580 ) Pandosto ( 1588 ) Oberon, the Faery Prince ( 1611 ) Adaptations The Winter 's Tale ( 1910 ) The Winter 's Tale ( 1967 ) The Winter 's Tale ( 1981 ) `` The Winter 's Tale '' ( 1994 ) Operas The Winter 's Tale ( 2017 ) Shakespearean history William Shakespeare 's King John Characters King John Queen Eleanor Prince Henry Blanche of Castile Earl of Essex Earl of Salisbury Earl of Pembroke Lord Bigot Philip Faulconbridge King Philip of France Louis the Dauphin Lady Constance Arthur Cardinal Pandulf Hubert Sources Holinshed 's Chronicles ( 1577 ) The Troublesome Reign of King John ( c. 1589 ) Adaptations King John ( 1899 ) The Life and Death of King John ( 1984 ; TV ) Related King Johan Cultural depictions of John of England Anglo - French War ( 1213 -- 14 ) William Shakespeare 's Edward III Characters English Edward III Queen Philippa Edward, the Black Prince Earl of Salisbury Countess of Salisbury Earl of Warwick Sir William Montague Earl of Derby Lord Audley Lord Percy Robert of Artois Lord Montfort French King John II of France Prince Charles Prince Philip Duke of Lorraine King of Bohemia Scottish King David of Scotland Sir William Douglas Sources Froissart 's Chronicles ( c. 1370 ) Palace of Pleasure ( 1566 ) Holinshed 's Chronicles ( 1577 ) Related Shakespeare Apocrypha Thomas Kyd George Peele Robert Greene Hundred Years ' War Battle of Halidon Hill Siege of Calais Battle of Crécy Battle of Poitiers William Shakespeare 's Henriad Richard II Henry IV, Part 1 Henry IV, Part 2 Henry V Characters Richard II Richard II Henry Bolingbroke Duke of York Earl of Northumberland Duke of Aumerle John of Gaunt Queen ( unnamed composite of Anne of Bohemia and Isabella of Valois ) Henry ' Hotspur ' Percy Duchess of York ( unnamed composite of Infanta Isabella of Castile and Joan Holland ) Duchess of Gloucester Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk Bishop of Carlisle Duke of Surrey Bushy Bagot Green Lord Ross Earl of Salisbury Lord Berkeley 1 Henry IV Henry IV Prince Hal Henry ' Hotspur ' Percy Sir John Falstaff Ned Poins Mistress Quickly Bardolph Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester Earl of Douglas Sir Walter Blunt Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland Lady Percy Earl of Westmorland Owen Glendower Edmund Mortimer Lady Mortimer Archbishop of York John, Duke of Bedford 2 Henry IV Henry IV Prince Hal Sir John Falstaff Ned Poins Ancient Pistol Bardolph Mistress Quickly Doll Tearsheet Robert Shallow Earl of Westmorland Archbishop of York John, Duke of Bedford Earl of Warwick Lord Chief Justice Lord Bardolf Earl of Northumberland Lord Mowbray Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Thomas, Duke of Clarence Earl of Surrey Rumour Henry V Henry V King of France Louis the Dauphin Fluellen Ancient Pistol Mistress Quickly Bardolph Corporal Nym Katharine Constable of France Chorus Duke of Exeter John, Duke of Bedford Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Thomas, Duke of Clarence Earl of Westmorland Duke of Orléans Duke of Burgundy Duke of York Earl of Salisbury Earl of Warwick Duke of Bourbon Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of Ely Queen Isabel Earl of Cambridge Lord Scroop Sir Thomas Grey Michael Williams Sir Thomas Erpingham Duke of Berry On screen Richard II An Age of Kings ( 1960 ; TV ) The Life and Death of King Richard II ( 1960 ; TV ) King Richard the Second ( 1978 ; TV ) Richard the Second ( 2001 ) The Hollow Crown : Richard II ( 2012 ; TV ) 1 Henry IV An Age of Kings ( 1960 ; TV ) Chimes at Midnight ( 1966 ) The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, with the life and death of Henry surnamed Hotspur ( 1979 ; TV ) The Hollow Crown : Henry IV, Part 1 ( 2012 ; TV ) 2 Henry IV An Age of Kings ( 1960 ; TV ) Chimes at Midnight ( 1966 ) The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth containing his Death : and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift ( 1979 ; TV ) The Hollow Crown : Henry IV, Part 2 ( 2012 ) Henry V Henry V ( 1944 ) An Age of Kings ( 1960 ; TV ) Chimes at Midnight ( 1966 ) The Life of Henry the Fift ( 1979 ; TV ) Henry V ( 1989 ) The Hollow Crown : Henry V ( 2012 ) Related Holinshed 's Chronicles Hundred Years ' War Wars of the Roses Divine right of kings Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex Battle of Humbleton Hill Battle of Shrewsbury John Oldcastle Battle of Agincourt The Merry Wives of Windsor The Famous Victories of Henry V ( c. 1585 ) Thomas of Woodstock / Richard the Second, Part One ( c. 1593 ) Falstaff 's Wedding ( 1760 ) Falstaff ( opera ; 1913 ) At the Boar 's Head ( 1925 ) Suite from Henry V ( 1963 ) William Shakespeare 's first historical tetralogy Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI, Part 3 Richard III Characters 1 Henry VI Henry VI Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Duke of Exeter Lord Talbot Duke of Bedford Richard, Duke of York Bishop of Winchester Earl of Suffolk Duke of Somerset ( conflation of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset and Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset ) Earl of Warwick Earl of Salisbury John Talbot Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March ( conflation of Sir Edmund Mortimer and Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March ) Sir John Fastolf Charles the Dauphin Joan la Pucelle Margaret of Anjou Reignier, Duke of Anjou Duke of Alençon Bastard of Orléans Duke of Burgundy Jacques d'Arc 2 Henry VI Henry VI Queen Margaret Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester Richard, Duke of York Earl of Salisbury Earl of Warwick Cardinal of Winchester Duke of Suffolk Duke of Buckingham Jack Cade Duke of Somerset ( conflation of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset and Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset ) Duchess of Gloucester Edward Plantagenet Richard Plantagenet Lord Clifford Young Clifford Margery Jourdayne Lord Saye Lord Scales 3 Henry VI Henry VI Queen Margaret Richard, Duke of York Earl of Warwick Edward IV Richard, Duke of Gloucester George, Duke of Clarence Edward, Prince of Wales Lord Clifford Lady Grey Montague Earl of Oxford Duke of Somerset ( conflation of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset and Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset ) Lord Hastings Sir William Stanley Earl of Northumberland Duke of Exeter Duke of Norfolk Earl of Westmorland Lord Rivers Edmund, Earl of Rutland Henry, Earl of Richmond Louis XI of France Bona of Savoy Prince Edward Earl of Pembroke Lord Stafford Lord Bourbon Richard III Richard III Duke of Buckingham Queen Elizabeth Duchess of York Queen Margaret Lady Neville George, Duke of Clarence Edward IV Lord Hastings Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond Sir William Catesby Sir Richard Ratcliffe Lord Rivers Marquis of Dorset Sir James Tyrrell Lord Richard Grey Prince Edward Richard, Duke of York Earl of Warwick Countess of Salisbury Duke of Norfolk Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop of York Earl of Surrey Sir Thomas Vaughan Sir Christopher Robert Brackenbury Lord Lovel Ghost of Henry VI Ghost of Edward, Prince of Wales Lord Mayor of London Earl of Oxford Sir James Blunt Sir William Brandon Bishop of Ely Sheriff of Wiltshire On screen 1 Henry VI An Age of Kings ( 1960 ; TV ) The Wars of the Roses ( 1965 ; TV ) The First Part of Henry the Sixt ( 1983 ; TV ) The Hollow Crown : Henry VI, Part 1 ( 2016 ; TV ) 2 Henry VI An Age of Kings ( 1960 ; TV ) The Wars of the Roses ( 1965 ; TV ) The Second Part of Henry the Sixt ( 1983 ; TV ) The Hollow Crown : Henry VI, Part 1 & Henry VI, Part 2 ( 2016 ; TV ) 3 Henry VI An Age of Kings ( 1960 ; TV ) The Wars of the Roses ( 1965 ; TV ) The Third Part of Henry the Sixt ( 1983 ; TV ) The Hollow Crown : Henry VI, Part 2 ( 2016 ; TV ) Richard III The Life and Death of King Richard III ( 1912 ) Richard III ( 1955 ) An Age of Kings ( 1960 ; TV ) The Wars of the Roses ( 1965 ; TV ) The Tragedy of Richard III ( 1983 ; TV ) `` The Foretelling '' ( 1983 ; TV ) `` King Richard III '' ( 1994 ; TV ) Richard III ( 1995 ) Looking for Richard ( 1996 ) Richard III ( 2008 ) The Hollow Crown : Richard III ( 2016 ; TV ) Related Holinshed 's Chronicles Hundred Years ' War Wars of the Roses House of Plantagenet House of York House of Lancaster Siege of Orléans Battle of Patay Peasants ' Revolt ( 1381 ) First Battle of St Albans Battle of Wakefield Second Battle of St Albans Battle of Towton Battle of Barnet Battle of Tewkesbury Princes in the Tower Battle of Bosworth Field `` Even a worm will turn '' Richardus Tertius ( 1580 ) The True Tragedy of Richard III ( c. 1590 ) The Tragical History of King Richard the Third ( 1699 ) David Garrick as Richard III ( 1745 ) William Shakespeare 's Henry VIII Characters Henry VIII Cardinal Wolsey Queen Katherine Anne Bullen Duke of Buckingham Thomas Cranmer Stephen Gardiner Lord Chamerlain Duke of Norfolk Duke of Suffolk Earl of Surrey Cardinal Campeius Capucius Thomas Cromwell Lord Sands Lord Abergavenny Lord Chancellor Bishop of Lincoln Thomas Lovell Henry Guildford Nicholas Vaux Anthony Denny Dr. Butts Garter King - of - Arms Sources Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe ( 1558 ) Holinshed 's Chronicles ( 1577 ) Adaptations Henry VIII ( 1911 ) The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight ( 1979 ) Related John Fletcher Cultural depictions of Henry VIII of England Globe Theatre Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shakespeare%27s_plays&oldid=828719718 '' Categories : Plays by William Shakespeare Lists of plays Hidden categories : EngvarB from September 2016 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from June 2007 Wikisource templates with missing id Use dmy dates from July 2015 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch فارسی Occitan Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 4 March 2018, at 10 : 03. 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Question: what are the 3 types of plays that shakespeare wrote
Answer: tragedy