Our mighty Shakespeare

-- born in Stratford - on - Avon in Warwickshire on April 23rd 1564.
-- wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets.
--one play CARDENIO has no written record.
--opened Globe Theatre in 1599


Dr. Dowden's classification of his plays...
1584-1594=> in the workshop
1. The first part of Henry VI
2. The second and third parts of Henry VI
3. Titus Andronicus
4. Richard III
5. Love's Labour Lost
6. The Comedy of Errors
7. Two Gentleman of Verona
8. Midsummer Night's Dream
9. Romoe and  Juliet


1594-1600 => life in the world
1. Richard II
2. King John
3. The Ist and IInd parts of Henry IV
4. Henry V
5. The Merchant of Venice
6. The taminf of Shrew
7. The Merry Wives of Windsor
8. Much Ado About Nothing
9. As you like it
10. Twelfth Night

1600-1606 => out of the depths
1. Julius Ceasar
2. Hamlet
3. Othello
4. Lear
5. Macbeth
6. Antony and Cleopatra
7. Coriolanus
8. Timon of Athens
9. All's well that ends well
10. Troilus and Cressida

1606-1612 =>on the heights
1. Pericles
2. Cymbeline
3. The Tempest
4. The Winter's Tale