Shakespeare’s Plays
It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 37 plays in total between 1590 and 1612. This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 37 plays in alphabetical order.
Each Shakespeare play name links to a range of resources about that play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues:
- All’s Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV Part 1
- Henry IV Part 2
- Henry VIII
- Henry VI Part 1
- Henry VI Part 2
- Henry VI Part 3
- Henry V
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Loves Labour’s Lost
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo & Juliet (read Romeo & Juliet in modern English for free!)
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus & Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Winter’s Tale
That’s all of Shakespeare’s plays…we think. Some people believe Shakespeare wrote many more plays, but we’ll stick to these 37 until more concrete evidence emerges!
5 Responses to Shakespeare’s Plays
Great help! Other sites say 39 plays in total!
i would like to know where to buy the plays in book form to use at school
Hi Pam, I’m afraid we don’t actually sell the plays in book form – only ebooks that you can’t print out and use as you like!
this was pretty helpful for my shakespeare project that will depend on weather i go down a set or stay at my current- highest set in yr 7. THANKS !!!!!!!
Sir William Shakespear is the best play writer ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!