Full Texts of the Plays

“The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King’

- Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii -

Shakespeare wrote (or had a substantial hand in) 37 plays which have been divided into three groups – tragedy, history and comedy.

It has been said that if Shakespeare had written only the four great tragedies – Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth – his status as the world’s greatest author would have been solidified.

TRAGEDIES	HISTORIES	COMEDIES

Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus	Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part II Henry V Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry VI, Part III Henry VIII King John Richard II Richard III	All’s Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love’s Labours Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale

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