Works

Editions of works: First Quarto (1603), Second Quarto (1604), Folio (1623) and Quarto (1604), Folio (1623)

The First Folio was publihed by Heminge e Condell in 1623 containing almost all the plays Shakespeare wrote. Heminge e Condell were actors and collect every possible material. Pirate copies actors’ scripts, prompt books etc From 18h century onward scholars compare different editions Folio, Quarto. Shakespeare’s plays are dated both through external and internal references .

The problem with any timeline of Shakespeare's works is that most dates are subject to interpretation. While it is easy to say that The Comedy of Errors is an early work and The Tempest is quite later, exact dates are not - and may not ever be -proved

Title	Date Written	Date Range	First Published
The Comedy of Errors	1590	? - 1594	1623
Titus Andronicus	1590	? - 1594	1594
The Taming of the Shrew	1591	? - 1594	1623
2 Henry VI	1591	? - 1592	1594
3 Henry VI	1591	? - 1592	1595
1 Henry VI	1592	? - 1592	1623
Richard III	1592	1592 - 1597	1597
Love's Labor's Lost	1593	? - 1597	1598
Two Gentlemen of Verona	1593	? - 1598	1623
A Midsummer Night's Dream	1594	1594 - 1598	1600
Romeo and Juliet	1595	? - 1597	1597
Richard II	1595	1595 - 1597	1597
King John	1596	? - 1598	1623
The Merchant of Venice	1596	1594 - 1598	1600
Henry IV Part 1	1596	1595 - 1598	1598
Henry IV Part 2	1597	1596 - 1598	1600
The Merry Wives of Windsor	1597	1597 - 1602	1602
As You Like It	1598	1598 - 1600	1623
Much Ado About Nothing	1598	1598 - 1600	1600
Henry V	1599	1599	1600
Julius Caesar	1599	1598 - 1599	1623
Twelfth Night	1600	1600 - 1602	1623
Hamlet	1601	1599 - 1601	1603
Troilus and Cressida	1602	1601 - 1603	1609
All's Well That Ends Well	1603	1598 - ?	1623
Measure For Measure	1604	1598 - 1604	1623
Othello	1604	1598 - 1604	1622
King Lear	1605	1598 - 1606	1608
Macbeth	1606	1603 - 1611	1623
Antony and Cleopatra	1606	1598 - 1608	1623
Timon of Athens	1606	1598 - ?	1623
Pericles Prince of Tyre	1607	1598 - 1608	1609
Coriolanus	1608	1598 - ?	1623
Cymbeline	1609	1598 - 1611	1623
A Winter's Tale	1610	1598 - 1611	1623
The Tempest	1611	1610 - 1611	1623
Henry VIII	1613	1612 - 1613	1623