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
3 Henry VI
1602
1595
1592-93
Richard III
1593
1597
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Comedy of Errors
1593-94
Titus Andronicus
Taming of the Shrew
1594-95
Love’s Labours Lost
1607
1598
1594-96
King John
Richard II
1595-96
Romeo and Juliet
Midsummer Night’s Dream
1604
1600
1596-97
Merchant of Venice
1605
1 Henry IV
Merry Wives of Windsor
1599
2 Henry IV
1612
1598-99
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry V
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
1603
1600-01
Hamlet
1601-02
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
1609
1602-03
All’s Well that Ends Well
Measure for Measure
Othello
1621
1622
King Lear
1606
1608
Macbeth
1611
Antony and Cleopatra
1607-08
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Pericles
NOT
1609-10
Cymbeline
1610-11
Winter’s Tales
Tempest
1612-13
Henry VIII
1613
Two Noble Kinsmen
1634
????
Edward III
Thomas More
???
Cardenio
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