CHRONOLOGY

     Even among scholars (I am not one), placing Shakespeare’s plays in the exact order he wrote them involves a bit of dart throwing.  For the purpose of this exercise the final board looks like this:

Henry VI, Part 2

Henry VI, Part 3

Henry VI, Part 1

Richard III

Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Comedy of Errors

Titus Andronicus

The Taming of the Shrew

Love’s Labor Lost

King John

Richard II

Romeo and Juliet

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Merchant of Venice

Henry IV, Part 1

Henry IV, Part 2

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Much Ado About Nothing

Henry V

Julius Caesar

As You Like It

Hamlet

Twelfth Night

Troilus and Cressida

All’s Well That Ends Well

Measure for Measure

Othello

King Lear

Macbeth

Antony and Cleopatra

Coriolanus

Timon of Athens

Pericles

Cymbeline

The Winter’s Tale

The Tempest

Henry VIII

The Two Noble Kinsmen

Next: Henry VI, Part 2