Plays

His Plays and Sonnets

His Plays

Shakespeare wrote all different types of plays like tragedies, comedies,
Lyric and Histories. Here are all his plays listed from 1 to 37.

1. The Tempest
2. The two Gentleman of Verona
3. The Merry Wives of Windsor
4. Measure for Measure
5. The Comedy of errors
6. Much ado about nothing
7. Love's Labour's Lost
8. A midsummer-night's dream
9. The Merchant of Venice
10. As you like it
11. The Taming of the Shrew
12. All's well that ends well
13. Twelfth Night
14. The Winter's Tale
15. The life and death of King John
16. The Tragedy of king Richard II
17. The first part of King Henry IV
19. The life of King Henry V
20. The first part of King Henry VI
21. The second part of King Henry VI
22. The Third part of King Henry VI
23. The tragedy of King Richard III
24. The famous history of the life of King Henry VIII
25. Troilus and Cressida
26. Coriolanus
27. Titus Andronicus
28. Romeo and Juliet
29. Timon of Athens
30. Julius Caesar
31. Macbeth
32. Hamlet
34. King Lear
35. Antony and Cleopatra
36. Cymbeline
37. Pericles, Prince of tyre.

Sonnet 18

A sonnet is a 14 line poem. Here is an example of one of the 154 he wrote:

Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summers lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is held gold complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed,
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wonder'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breath, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Where his plays were performed

There were two theatres in which Shakespeare first performed his plays. They were called 'The Globe Theatre' and 'The Rose Theatre'. 'The Rose Theatre' opened in 1592. 'The Globe Theatre' was built in 1599. In 1613 In the middle of one of his plays which was called Henry VIII, caught fire. It was rebuilt one year after in 1614 .

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