Date of Composition Flashcards
Henry VI, Part One
1589-90
Henry VI, Part Two
1590-91
Henry VI, Part Three
1590-91
Richard III
1592-93
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1592-93
Hamlet (first version)
1589-93
Venus and Adonis
1592-93
The Comedy of Errors
1593
Sonnets
1593-1609
The Rape of Lucrece
1593-94
Titus Andronicus
1593-94
The Taming of the Shrew
1593-94
Love’s Labour’s Lost
1594-95
King John
1594-95
Richard II
1595
Romeo and Juliet
1595-96
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1595-96
Henry IV, Part One
1596-97
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1597
Henry
IV, Part Two
Much Ado About Nothing
1598-99
Henry V
1599
Julius Caesar
1599
As You Like It
1599
Hamlet
1600-1601
The Phoenix and the Turtle
1601
Twelfth Night
1601-2
Troilus and Cressida
1601-02
All’s Well That Ends Well
1602-3
Measure for Measure
1604
Othello
1604
King Lear
1605
Macbeth
1606
Antony and Cleopatra
1606
Coriolanus
1607-8
Timon of Athens
1607-8
Pericles
1607-8
Cymbeline
1609-10
The Winter’s Tale
1610-11
The Tempest
1611
A Funeral Elegy
1612
Henry VIII
1612-13
The Two Noble Kinsmen
1613
How many plays in total according to Harold Bloom (and range of composition)?
41 plays, 1589-1613
How many sonnets?
154 sonnets