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American Literature
English Literature
| Play | Approximate date of composition |
Date of first publication |
Major characters | Genre |
| Henry VI, Part II | 1590 | 1594 | King Henry VI Queen Margaret Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York |
History |
| Henry VI, Part III | 1590 | 1595 | King Henry VI Queen Margaret Edward, Prince of Wales Richard, Duke of Gloucester Richard Nevil, Earl of Warwick |
History |
| Henry VI, Part I | 1590 | 1623 | King Henry VI Lord Talbot Joan of Arc Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York |
History |
| Richard III | 1592 | 1597 | King Richard III Queen Elizabeth Duke of Buckingham Lady Anne George, Duke of Clarence |
History |
| The Comedy of Errors | 1592 | 1623 | Antipholus of Syracuse Antipholus of Ephesus Dromio of Syracuse Dromio of Ephesus |
Comedy |
| Titus Andronicus | 1593 | 1594 | Titus of Andronicus Tamora Aaron the Moor |
Tragedy |
| The Taming of the Shrew | 1593 | 1623 | Petruchio Katherine |
Comedy |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 1594 | 1623 | Valentine Proteus Julius Silvia |
Comedy |
| Love's Labour's Lost | 1594 | 1598 | King of Navarre Princess of France Holofernes Don Adriano de Armado |
Comedy |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1594 | 1597 | Romeo Juliet Mercutio Tybalt Friar Laurence Nurse |
Tragedy |
| Richard II | 1595 | 1597 | King Richard II Henry Bolingbroke Edmund of Langley, Duke of York |
History |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1595 | 1600 | Hermea Lysander Theseus Helena Demetrius Oberon Titania Puck Bottom |
Comedy |
| King John | 1596 | 1623 | King John Philip the Bastard Arthur, Duke of Britain Constance |
History |
| The Merchant of Venice | 1596 | 1600 | Bassanio Shylock Antonio Portia |
Comedy |
| Henry IV, Part I | 1597 | 1598 | King Henry IV Falstaff Henry, Prince of Wales (Prince Hal) Henry Percy (“Hotspur”) |
History |
| Henry IV, Part II | 1597 | 1600 | King Henry IV Falstaff Henry, Prince of Wales |
History |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 1598 | 1600 | Prince of Arragon Beatrice Benedick Claudio Hero |
Comedy |
| Henry V | 1598 | 1600 | King Henry V Archbishop of Canterbury Fluellen Pistol |
History |
| Julius Caesar | 1599 | 1623 | Brutus Cassius Marc Antony Caesar |
Tragedy |
| As You Like It | 1599 | 1623 | Rosalind Orlando Touchstone |
Comedy |
| Twelfth Night | 1599 | 1623 | Sir Toby Belch Viola Sebastian Duke Orsino Olivia |
Comedy |
| Hamlet | 1600 | 1603 | Hamlet Horatio Ophelia Laertes Claudius Polonius Gertrude |
Tragedy |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | 1600 | 1602 | Falstaff Mrs. Page Mr. Ford |
Comedy |
| Troilus and Cressida | 1601 | 1609 | Troilus Ulysses Pandarus Cressida |
Comedy |
| All's Well That Ends Well | 1602 | 1623 | Betram Helena Parolles King of France |
Comedy |
| Measure for Measure | 1604 | 1623 | Vincentio Angelo Isabella Claudio Mariana |
Comedy |
| Othello | 1604 | 1622 | Othello Desdemona Iago Cassio |
Tragedy |
| King Lear | 1605 | 1608 | King Lear Cordelia Earl of Gloucester Edgar Earl of Kent Edmund Goneril Regan Duke of Albany Lear's Fool |
Tragedy |
| Macbeth | 1605 | 1623 | Duncan Macbeth Lady Macbeth Malcolm Macduff |
Tragedy |
| Antony and Cleopatra | 1606 | 1623 | Mark Antony Cleopatra Octavius Caesar |
Tragedy |
| Coriolanus | 1607 | 1623 | Coriolanus Tullus Aufidius Caius Marcius Menenius Agrippa Volumnia |
Tragedy |
| Timon of Athens | 1607 | 1623 | Timon of Athens Apemantus Alcibiades Flavius |
Tragedy |
| Pericles | 1608 | 1609 | Pericles Thaisa Marina Simonides Lysimachus |
Tragicomedy |
| Cymbeline | 1609 | 1623 | Cymbeline Imogen Posthumus Iachimo |
Tragicomedy |
| The Winter's Tale | 1610 | 1623 | Leontes Hermione Paulina Autolycus Perdita Florizel Polixenes |
Tragicomedy |
| The Tempest | 1611 | 1623 | Prospero Miranda Ferdinand Ariel Caliban |
Tragicomedy |
| Henry VIII | 1612 | 1623 | King Henry VIII Queen Katherine Cardinal Wolsey Duke of Buckingham Anne Boleyn |
History |
| Two Noble Kinsmen | 1612 | 1634 | Palamon Arcite |
Comedy |
