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| 1589-91 | Arden of Faversham (possible part authorship) |
| 1589-92 | The Taming of the Shrew |
| 1589-92 | (possible part authorship) |
| 1591 | The Second Part of Henry the Sixth, originally called The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (element of co-authorship possible) |
| 1591 | The Third Part of Henry the Sixth, originally called The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York (element of co-authorship probable) |
| 1591-2 | The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| 1591-2/ perhaps revised 1594 | The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus (probably co-written with, or revising an earlier version by, George Peele) |
| 1592 | The First Part of Henry the Sixth, probably with Thomas Nashe and others |
| 1592 / 1594 | King Richard the Third |
| 1593 | Venus and Adonis (poem) |
| 1593-94 | The Rape of Lucrece (poem) |
| 1593-1608 | Sonnets (154 poems, published 1609 with A Lover’s Complaint, a poem of disputed authorship) |
| 1592-94 / 1600-1603 | Sir Thomas More (a single scene for a play originally by Anthony Munday, with other revisions by Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker and Thomas Heywood) |
| 1594 | The Comedy of Errors |
| 1595 | Love’s Labour’s Lost |
| 1595-97 | Love’s Labour’s Won (a lost play, unless the original title for another comedy) |
| 1595-96 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| 1595-96 | The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet |
| 1595-96 | King Richard the Second |
| 1595-97 | The Life and Death of King John (possibly earlier) |
| 1596-97 | The Merchant of Venice |
| 1596-97 | The First Part of Henry the Fourth |
| 1597-98 | The Second Part of Henry the Fourth |
| 1598 | Much Ado about Nothing |
| 1598-99 | The Passionate Pilgrim (20 poems, some not by Shakespeare) |
| 1599 | The Life of Henry the Fifth |
| 1599 | ‘To the Queen’ (epilogue for a court performance) |
| 1599 | As You Like It |
| 1599 | The Tragedy of Julius Caesar |
| 1600-01 | The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (perhaps revising an earlier version) |
| 1600-01 | The Merry Wives of Windsor (perhaps revising version of 1597-9) |
| 1601 | ‘Let the Bird of Loudest Lay’ (poem, known since 1807 as ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’ (turtle-dove)) |
| 1601 | Twelfth Night, or What You Will |
| 1601-02 | The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida |
| 1604 | The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice |
| 1604 | Measure for Measure |
| 1605 | All’s Well that Ends Well |
| 1605 | The Life of Timon of Athens, with Thomas Middleton |
| 1605-06 | The Tragedy of King Lear |
| 1605-08 | contribution to The Four Plays in One (lost, except for A Yorkshire Tragedy, mostly by Thomas Middleton) |
| 1606 | The Tragedy of Macbeth (surviving text has additional scenes by Thomas Middleton) |
| 1606-07 | The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra |
| 1608 | The Tragedy of Coriolanus |
| 1608 | Pericles, Prince of Tyre, with George Wilkins |
| 1610 | The Tragedy of Cymbeline |
| 1611 | The Winter’s Tale |
| 1611 | The Tempest |
| 1612-13 | Cardenio, with John Fletcher (survives only in later adaptation called Double Falsehood by Lewis Theobald) |
| 1613 | Henry VIII (All is True), with John Fletcher |
| 1613-14 | The Two Noble Kinsmen, with John Fletcher |
