Year = year of the creation based on Bloom's chronology

Chronology of Shakespeare’s Plays

Compiled by Edson Tadeu Ortolan <eortolan@uol.com.br>

 

 

Year

Play

PR

SR

1St  Ed

F 1623

1589-90

1 Henry VI

1592

-

-

ok

1590-91

2 Henry VI

-

1594

1594

ok

1590-91

3 Henry VI

1592

1602

1595

ok

1592-93

Richard III

1593

1597

1597

ok

1592-93

Two Gentlemen of Verona

-

-

-

ok

1593

Comedy of Errors

1594

-

-

ok

1593-94

Titus Andronicus

1594

1594

1594

ok

1593-94

Taming of the Shrew

1594

1594

 

ok

1594-95

Love’s Labours Lost

1597

1607

1598

ok

1594-96

King John

-

-

-

ok

1595

Richard II

1595

1597

1597

ok

1595-96

Romeo and Juliet

-

1607

1597

ok

1595-96

Midsummer Night’s Dream

1604

1600

1600

ok

1596-97

Merchant of Venice

1605

1598

1600

ok

1596-97

1 Henry IV

1600

1598

1598

ok

1597

Merry Wives of Windsor

1599

1602

1602

ok

1598

2 Henry IV

1612

1600

1600

ok

1598-99

Much Ado About Nothing

1612

1600

1600

ok

1599

Henry V

1605

1600

1600

ok

1599

Julius Caesar

1599

-

-

ok

1599

As You Like It

1603

1600

-

ok

1600-01

Hamlet

1602

1602

1603

ok

1601-02

Twelfth Night

-

-

-

ok

1601-02

Troilus and Cressida

-

1609

-

ok

1602-03

All’s Well that Ends Well

-

-

-

ok

1604

Measure for Measure

1604

-

-

ok

1604

Othello

1604

1621

1622

ok

1605

King Lear

1606

1607

1608

ok

1606

Macbeth

1611

-

-

ok

1606

Antony and Cleopatra

-

1608

-

ok

1607-08

Coriolanus

-

-

-

ok

1607-08

Timon of Athens

-

-

-

ok

1607-08

Pericles

1609

1608

1609

NOT

1609-10

Cymbeline

1611

-

-

ok

1610-11

Winter’s Tales

1612

-

-

ok

1611

Tempest

1611

-

-

ok

1612-13

Henry VIII

1613

-

-

ok

1613

Two Noble Kinsmen

-

1634

1634

NOT

????

Edward III

-

-

-

NOT

????

Thomas More

-

-

-

NOT

???

Cardenio

-

-

-

NOT


 

Year           year of the creation based on Bloom’s chronology

PR              première recorded or former performance recorded

SR              entered in Stationer’s Register

1st Ed          1st edition (pirated or authorized)

F 1623        Folio 1623 inclusion

 

 


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