The knowledge of English Literature is incomplete without learning about William Shakespeare’s works. Whether you are an English literature student or you are merely interested in literature, you need to know about William Shakespeare’s works.
It is difficult to collect his works in one place but here are the William Shakespeare’s Works in Alphabetical order:
A: (Six)
All’s That Ends Well (Comedy)
As You Like It (Comedy)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Comedy)
Antony and Cleopatra (Tragedy)
A Lover’s Complaint (Sonnet)
A Yorkshire Tragedy (Sonnet)
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C: (Two)
Coriolanus (Tragedy)
Cymbeline (Tragedy)
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E: (one)
Edward III (Sonnet)
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H: (nine)
Henry IV, Part 1 (History)
Henry IV, Part 2 (History)
Henry IV, Part 3 (History)
Henry V (History)
Henry VI, Part 1 (History)
Henry VI, Part 2 (History)
Henry VI, Part 3 (History)
Henry VIII (History)
Hamlet (Tragedy)
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J: (one)
Julius Caesar (Tragedy)
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K: (two)
King John (History)
King Lear (Tragedy)
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L: (three)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Comedy)
Lost Plays (Sonnet)
Locrine (Sonnet)
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M: (Four)
Macbeth (Tragedy)
Measure for Measure (Comedy)
Much Ado about Nothing (Comedy)
Main Article: Shakespeare Apocrypha (Sonnet)
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O: (one)
Othello (Tragedy)
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P: (one)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Comedy)
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R: (three)
Richard II (History)
Richard III (History)
Romeo and Juliet (Tragedy)
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S: (Two)
Sir John Oldcastle (Sonnet)
Sir Thomas More (Sonnet)
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T: (Twenty)
Thomas Lord Cromwell (Sonnet)
Troilus and Cressida ( Tragedy)
Titus Andronicus (Tragedy)
Timon of Athens (Tragedy)
The Birth of Merlin (Sonnet)
The London Prodigal (Sonnet)
The Puritan (Sonnet)
The History of Cardenio (Sonnet)
The Second Maiden’s Tragedy (Sonnet)
The Rape of Lucrece (Sonnet)
The Passionate Pilgrim (Sonnet)
The Phoenix and the Turtle (Sonnet)
The Tempest (Comedy)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Comedy)
The Two Noble Kinsmen (Comedy)
The Winter’s Tale (Comedy)
The Taming of The Shrew (Comedy)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Comedy)
The Merchant of Venice (Comedy)
The Comedy of Errors (Comedy)
Twelfth Night (Comedy)
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V: (one)
Venus and Adonis (Sonnet)
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Comedies of Shakespeare:
All’s Well That Ends Well , As You Like It , A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Love’s Labour’s Lost , Measure for Measure
Much Ado about Nothing , The Tempest , The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen , The Winter’s Tale
The Taming of The Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor ,
Twelfth Night , The Merchant of Venice , The Comedy of Errors
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
William Shakespeare History works:
King john, Richard II, Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part 2, Richard III
Henry V,
Henry VI, Part I , Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3
Henry VIII
Tragedy works of Shakespeare:
Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus , Titus Andronicus
Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth
Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, King Lear,
Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline
William Shakespeare’s Sonnets:
The Rape of Lucrece ,The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and the Turtle , Thomas Lord Cromwell
The Birth of Merlin, The London Prodigal
The Puritan , The History of Cardenio, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy
Sir John Oldcastle , Sir Thomas More
Main Article: Shakespeare Apocrypha , Locrine
Lost Plays , Edward III , A Yorkshire Tragedy
A Lover’s Complaint
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Total Plays of Shakespeare: 37
Total Sonnets of Shakespeare: 154
Two long narrative poems
10 history works, 12 tragedy works, 21 sonnet works and 16 comedy works are mentioned in this article.
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