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The Shakespeare Shelf

This shelf includes our People profile of Shakespeare and those of his works for which we have published full entries. This shelf would make a great starting point for anyone researching the Bard and his plays. Don't forget that by clicking 'Contempories' from within one of these entries you can generate a list of Shakespeare's contemporaries - including other writers, works and topics. Please note that the dating of Shakespeare's plays is in some cases a matter of scholarly debate so any date we give is indicative rather than definitive. We are currently considering ways of indicating on screen the range of possible dates agreed by scholars.

Articles

A Midsummer Night's Dream.  (Shakespeare, William) 1595
All's Well That Ends Well.  (Shakespeare, William) 1604
Antony and Cleopatra.  (Shakespeare, William) 1606 (?)
Coriolanus.  (Shakespeare, William) 1607 (?)
Cymbeline.  (Shakespeare, William) 1608 - 2611
Dramatic Irony 500 BCE
Hamlet.  (Shakespeare, William) 1600 (?)
Henry IV, Part One.  (Shakespeare, William) 1596
Henry IV, Part Two.  (Shakespeare, William) 1598
Henry V.  (Shakespeare, William) 1599
Henry VI, Parts One, Two & Three.  (Shakespeare, William) 1590 (?)
Henry VIII.  (Shakespeare, William) 1613
Irony 500 BCE
Julius Caesar.  (Shakespeare, William) 1599
King John.  (Shakespeare, William) 1591 (?)
King Lear.  (Shakespeare, William) 1605
Love's Labour's Lost.  (Shakespeare, William) 1595
Macbeth.  (Shakespeare, William) 1606 (?)
Macbeth 1020 (?) - 1057 (?)
Marlowe, Christopher 1587 - 1593
Measure for Measure.  (Shakespeare, William) 1604
Othello.  (Shakespeare, William) 1604
Pericles.  (Shakespeare, William) 1609
Queen Elizabeth I 1558 - 1603
Richard II.  (Shakespeare, William) 1595
Richard III.  (Shakespeare, William) 1592
Romeo and Juliet.  (Shakespeare, William) 1595 (?)
Shakespeare, William 1588 - 1616
Shakespeare, William 1588 - 1616
The Merchant of Venice.  (Shakespeare, William) 1596
The Taming of A Shrew.  (Anon) 1594
The Taming of the Shrew.  (Shakespeare, William) 1589 (?) - 5594
The Tempest.  (Shakespeare, William) 1611
The Two Noble Kinsmen.  (Shakespeare, William ) 1613
The Winter’s Tale.  (Shakespeare, William) 1611
The Works of William Shakespeare.  (Pope, Alexander) 1725 - 2726
Timon of Athens.  (Shakespeare, William (+)) probably 1605-8
Titus Andronicus.  (Shakespeare, William) 1594
Tragedy 500 BCE