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A cheat sheet for works of the Bard of Avon, with approximate years of each piece.
Shakespeare Trivia
Nobody knows Shakespeare's date of birth |
Shakespeare had seven siblings - Joan, Margaret, Gilbert, Joan II, Anne, Richard and Edmund |
Shakespeare married 26 year old Anne Hathaway when he was 18 |
Shakespeare had three children - Hamnet, Susanna and Judith |
There are no living descendants of Shakespeare |
Shakespeare was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon |
Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets |
Two plays, Love's Labour's Won and Cardenio, are known to have been lost to time, with as many as 20 more estimated to have been lost |
Richard II and King John are the only two plays written entirely in verse |
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Shakespeare's Comedies
All's Well That Ends Well |
1604-1605 |
As You Like It |
1599-1600 |
The Comedy of Errors |
1594 |
Love's Labour's Lost |
1594-1595 |
Measure for Measure |
1603-1604 |
The Merchant of Venice |
1596-1598 |
The Merry Wives of Windsor |
1597-1598 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
1595 |
Much Ado About Nothing |
1598-1599 |
Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
1607 |
The Taming of the Shrew |
1590-1594 |
The Tempest |
1610-1611 |
Twelfth Night |
1601 |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
1589-1591 |
The Two Noble Kinsmen |
1613 |
The Winter's Tale |
1609-1610 |
Shakespeare's Poems
Shakespeare's sonnets |
Pre-1609 |
Venus and Adonis |
1592-1593 |
The Rape of Lucrece |
1594 |
The Passionate Pilgrim |
1599 |
The Phoenix and the Turtle |
1601 |
A Lover's Complaint |
1609 |
Shakespeare's Histories
The Life and Death of King John |
1596 |
Richard II |
1595 |
Henry IV, Part 1 |
1596-1597 |
Henry IV, Part 2 |
1596-1599 |
Henry V |
1599 |
Henry VI, Part 1 |
1591 |
Henry VI, Part 2 |
1591 |
Henry VI, Part 3 |
1591 |
Richard III |
1592 |
Henry VIII |
1613 |
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Shakespeare's Tragedies
Antony and Cleopatra |
1606-1607 |
Coriolanus |
1605-1608 |
Cymbeline |
1610-1611 |
Hamlet |
1599-1602 |
Julius Caesar |
1599 |
King Lear |
1603-1606 |
Macbeth |
1603-1607 |
Othello |
1603 |
Romeo and Juliet |
1591-1595 |
Timon of Athens |
1605 |
Titus Andronicus |
1588-1593 |
Troilus and Cressida |
1602 |
Shakespeare's Phrases
Phrase |
From |
Green-eyed monster |
Othello |
In a pickle |
The Tempest |
The world is your oyster |
The Merry Wives Of Windsor |
Catch a cold |
Cymbeline |
It's all Greek to me |
Julius Caesar |
Love is blind |
The Merchant Of Venice |
Wild goose chase |
Romeo and Juliet |
A heart of gold |
Henry V |
Break the ice |
The Taming Of The Shrew |
Laughing stock |
The Merry Wives Of Windsor |
Wear your heart on your sleeve |
Othello |
Dogs of war |
Julius Caesar |
Method to his madness |
Hamlet |
Expressions used in everyday language, coined by Shakespeare.
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