The Tales of William Shakespeare

 

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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

 

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later.

 

 

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Romeo Whispered that he Should Be Gone


The Works of William Shakespeare

Comedies

All's Well That Ends Well 

As You Like It

The Comedy of Errors

Love's Labour's Lost

Measure for Measure 

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Pericles, Prince of Tyre 

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest 

Twelfth Night

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Noble Kinsmen 

The Winter's Tale

Histories

King John

Richard II

Henry IV, Part 1

Henry IV, Part 2

Henry V

Henry VI, Part 1 

Henry VI, Part 2

Henry VI, Part 3

Richard III

Henry VIII 

Tragedies

Romeo and Juliet

Coriolanus

Titus Andronicus 

Timon of Athens 

Julius Caesar

Macbeth 

Hamlet

Troilus and Cressida 

King Lear

Othello

Antony and Cleopatra

Cymbeline 

Poems

Shakespeare's sonnets

Venus and Adonis

The Rape of Lucrece

The Passionate Pilgrim

The Phoenix and the Turtle

A Lover's Complaint

Lost plays

Love's Labour's Won

The History of Cardenio

Apocrypha

 Arden of Faversham

The Birth of Merlin

Edward III

Locrine

The London Prodigal

The Puritan

The Second Maiden's Tragedy

Sir John Oldcastle

Thomas Lord Cromwell

A Yorkshire Tragedy

Sir Thomas More