Shakespeare's+Plays


 * __Tragedies__ **
 * Julius Caeser
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * Trolius and Cressida
 * Coriolanus
 * Titus Andronicus
 * Macbeth
 * Timon of Athens[[image:r235619_947802.jpg width="262" height="355" align="right"]]
 * Hamlet
 * King Lear
 * Othello
 * Antony and Cleopatra
 * Cymbeline


 * __Comedies __**
 * As You Like It
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">A Midsummer's Night Dream
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">The Tempest
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">The Two Gentlemen of Verona
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">The Merry Wives of Windsor
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">Measure for Measure
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">The Comedy of Errors
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">Much Ado About Nothing
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">The Merchant of Venice
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">The Taming of the Shrew
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">Love's Labour's Lost
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">All's Well That Ends Well
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">The Winter's Tale
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">Twelfth Night
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">Pericles, Prince of Tyre
 * <span style="color: rgb(81,11,81);">The Two Noble Kinsmen


 * __<span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">Histories __**<span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">
 * <span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">King John
 * <span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">Henry IV, Part 1
 * <span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">Henry IV, Part 2
 * <span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">Henry V
 * <span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">Henry VI, Part 1
 * <span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">Henry VI, Part 2
 * <span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">Henry VI, Part 3
 * <span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">Henry VIII
 * <span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">Richard II
 * <span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">Richard III

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**Chart Showing Shakespeare's plays in Chronological Order**__ [1] First Performed Plays First Printed
 * 1590-91 || Henry VI, Part II || 1594? ||
 * 1590-91 || Henry VI, Part III || 1594? ||
 * 1591-92 || Henry VI, Part I || 1623 ||
 * 1592-93 || Richard III || 1597 ||
 * 1592-93 || Comedy of Errors || 1623 ||
 * 1593-94 || Titus Andronicus || 1594 ||
 * 1593-94 || Taming of the Shrew || 1623 ||
 * 1594-95 || Two Gentlemen of Verona || 1623 ||
 * 1594-95 || Love's Labour's Lost || 1598? ||
 * 1594-95 || Romeo and Juliet || 1597 ||
 * 1595-96 || Richard II || 1597 ||
 * 1595-96 || A Midsummer Night's Dream || 1600 ||
 * 1596-97 || King John || 1623 ||
 * 1596-97 || The Merchant of Venice || 1600 ||
 * 1597-98 || Henry IV, Part I || 1598 ||
 * 1597-98 || Henry IV, Part II || 1600 ||
 * 1598-99 || Much Ado About Nothing || 1600 ||
 * 1598-99 || Henry V || 1600 ||
 * 1599-1600 || Julius Caesar || 1623 ||
 * 1599-1600 || As You Like It || 1623 ||
 * 1599-1600 || Twelfth Night || 1623 ||
 * 1600-01 || Hamlet || 1603 ||
 * 1600-01 || The Merry Wives of Windsor || 1602 ||
 * 1601-02 || Troilus and Cressida || 1609 ||
 * 1602-03 || All's Well That Ends Well || 1623 ||
 * 1604-05 || Measure for Measure || 1623 ||
 * 1604-05 || Othello || 1622 ||
 * 1605-06 || King Lear || 1608 ||
 * 1605-06 || Macbeth || 1623 ||
 * 1606-07 || Antony and Cleopatra || 1623 ||
 * 1607-08 || Coriolanus || 1623 ||
 * 1607-08 || Timon of Athens || 1623 ||
 * 1608-09 || Pericles || 1609 ||
 * 1609-10 || Cymbeline || 1623 ||
 * 1610-11 || The Winter's Tale || 1623 ||
 * 1611-12 || The Tempest || 1623 ||
 * 1612-13 || Henry VIII || 1623 ||
 * 1612-13 || The Two Noble Kinsmen || 1634 ||

<span style="color: rgb(9,88,88);">__Information__ In Shakespeare's plays all the roles were played by men (even the woman). Also, all of his plays were performed in the Globe theater. Most of Shakespeare's plays began with something funny or interesting to get the audience hooked in the play. Even today around the world people are still putting on Shakespeare's plays and modernizing them. For example there has been a few modernizations of Shakespeare's plays in movies. Such as "10 things I hate about You" (Taming of the Shrew) and "She's the Man" (Twelfth Night). Even though Shakespeare's plays are known, it is to be said that the most widely known play would have to be "Romeo and Juliet" as it is often a play a beginner reads when entering the world of Shakespeare's works. FUN FACT: Since back in Shakespeare's time, only men were allowed to be in plays, and even women roles were played by men (young boys actually). Since the women would be young boys (because their voices were high and not quite developed), the boys still wore adult sized costumes (because they were portraying adults). Often they would be playing queens or some sort and their clothes would drag on the ground. This is where the term drag queen comes from.

__ About Shakespeares Sonnets __ <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">First off, sonnets were first written in Italy. The Shakespearean sonnets consist of the precise rhyme sceme abab cdcd efef gg. <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">William Shakespeare ended up writing a completion of 154 sonnets. The first 126 sonnets were about a young man who was very good looking. The first 17 of these sonnets encouraged the man to get married so that he can pass on these amazing qualities to his children. In the 18th sonnet, Shakespeare decides that the young man only needs poetry to keep his great qualities living on forever. However, for the next 27 sonnets, Shakespeare talks about a woman who is mysterious and irrevocably enchanting. This woman has very questionable morals. The last, 154, sonnet was published in 1609? __**Sources**__ [1] The above chart was found at: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Mabillard, Amanda. __Shakespeare Online__. "Play Chronology." 3003. 26 April 2009 < http://www.shakespeare-online.com/keyd/playchron.html>. [2] The above Shakespeare sonnets paragraph was found at: Cummings, Michael. __Cummings Study Guides__. "The Sonnnet." 2003. 27 April 2009 []