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Shakespeare
was the most famous playwright of all the times and his
plays are still a referrence in this century.
Many
of his plays have now been performed in very different
styles and settings. This has given the characters life
of their own, and given the directors the freedom to put
the plays into any period and language they want.
Surprisingly,
many of Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for films
and we can now find famous actors performing the various
characters of his plays.
Here
are the most important Shakespeare's Plays and their
approximate dates:
1590
- Henry VI - three parts
1592
- Richard III; Titus Andronicus
1593
- The Comedy of Errors; The Taming of the Shrew(
Venus and Adonis )
1594
- The Gentlemen of Verona; Love's Labour's lost (The
Rape of Lucrece)
1595
- Romeo and Juliet
1596
- A Midsummer Night's
Dream; King John
1597
- The Merchant of
Venice; Henry IV - part 1
1598
- Henry IV - part 2;
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1599
- Henry V; Much Ado
About Nothing; Julius Caesar
1600
- As You Like It;
Twelfth Night
1601
- Hamlet
1602
- Troilus and
Cressida
1603
- All's Well That
Ends Well; Measure for Mesure
1604
- Othelo
1605
- Timon of Athens
1606
- King Lear; Macbeth
1607
- Antony and
Cleopatra; Coriolanus
1608
- Pericles
1609
- Cymbeline
1610
- A winter's Tale
1611
- The Tempest
1612
- Henry VIII
He
wrote no more after 1612 as he started feeling tired,
with evident marks of nervous breakdown. By 1613
Shakespeare was finally retired at the New Place, where
he had been spending more and more time, particularly in
the summers after the turn of the century. |
