Shakespeare

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• King John

  This is Shakespeare's history play *King John*, an early work (c. 1596) belonging to the English history play tradition alongside the Henry…

• King Lear

  This is the opening act of William Shakespeare's tragic play *King Lear* (c. 1606), a canonical work of English Renaissance drama rooted in…

• King Richard the Second

  *King Richard II* is a history play by William Shakespeare, part of his second tetralogy of English history plays, dramatizing the fall of…

• King Richard the Third

  Shakespeare's *King Richard III* is a history play (c. 1592–93) dramatizing the rise and fall of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who schemes…

• Loues Labour's lost

  Actus primus. Enter Ferdinand King of Nauarre, Berowne, Longauill, and Dumane. Ferdinand.

• Loves Labour Lost

  *Love's Labour's Lost* is an early comedy by William Shakespeare, belonging to the tradition of courtly romantic comedy influenced by…

• Macbeth
• Measure for Measure

  *Measure for Measure* is a tragicomedy by William Shakespeare, belonging to the tradition of "problem plays" that resist easy moral…

• Merchant of Venice

  *The Merchant of Venice* is a Shakespearean comedy-drama (c. 1596–99) that interweaves two plots: a high-stakes loan in Venice and a…

• Merry Wives of Windsor
• Midsummers' Night Dream

  *A Midsummer Night's Dream* is a comedic stage play by William Shakespeare, written in the late 16th century and belonging to the tradition…

• Much Ado About Nothing

  *Much Ado About Nothing* is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, written around 1598–99 and set in Messina, Sicily. The play follows…

• Much adoe about Nothing

  This is the opening scene of William Shakespeare's comedy *Much Ado About Nothing* (c. 1598–1599), written in Early Modern English. The…

• Othello
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• Rape of Lucrece

  THE RAPE OF LUCRECE TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY, Earl of Southampton, and Baron of Tichfield. The love I dedicate to your…

• Romeo and Juliet
• Sonnets

  This is the opening sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets (1–20), lyric poems in the English Renaissance tradition addressed to a beautiful…

• Taming of the Shrew

  *The Taming of the Shrew* is a late 16th-century comedy by William Shakespeare, belonging to the tradition of Renaissance English drama…

• Tempest

  *The Tempest* is a late Shakespearean romance (c. 1611), part of the tragicomedy tradition, concerned with magic, exile, and…

• The Comedie of Errors

  Actus primus, Scena prima. Enter the Duke of Ephesus, with the Merchant of Siracusa, Iaylor, and other attendants. Marchant.

• The First Part of Henry the Fourth

  This is the opening of Shakespeare's history play *Henry IV, Part 1* (c. 1597), belonging to his second tetralogy of English chronicle…

• The Merry Wiues of Windsor

  This is the opening scene of Shakespeare's comedy *The Merry Wives of Windsor* (c. 1597), a domestic farce set among the provincial English…

• The Taming of the Shrew

  Actus primus. Scaena Prima. Enter Begger and Hostes, Christophero Sly.

• The Tempest

  Actus primus, Scena prima. A tempestuous noise of Thunder and Lightning heard: Enter a Ship-master, and a Boteswaine. Master.

• The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

  Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Demetrius and Philo.

• The Tragedie of Coriolanus

  Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter a Company of Mutinous Citizens, with Staues, Clubs, and other weapons.

• The Tragedie of Cymbeline

  Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter two Gentlemen.

• The Tragedie of Julius Caesar

  This is the opening act of Shakespeare's *Julius Caesar* (c. 1599), a history play in the English Renaissance dramatic tradition drawing on…

• The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice

  This is the opening two scenes of Shakespeare's tragedy *Othello* (c. 1603), written in Early Modern English verse and prose. The action…

• The Tragedie of Richard the Third

  This is the opening of Shakespeare's history play *Richard III* (circa 1592–93), drawn from the First Folio text. The excerpt covers Act 1…

• The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet

  This is the opening scene of Shakespeare's *Romeo and Juliet* (a dramatic play in the English Renaissance theatrical tradition), presenting…

• The Tragedie of Titus Andronicus

  Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Flourish.

• The Two Gentlemen of Verona

  Actus primus, Scena prima. Valentine: Protheus, and Speed. Valentine.

• The Winter's Tale

  *The Winter's Tale* is a late Shakespeare play (c. 1611), a "romance" or tragicomedy that blends tragedy, comedy, and pastoral elements…

• The Winters Tale

  Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Camillo and Archidamus.

• The first Part of Henry the Sixt

  Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Dead March.

• The life and death of King John

  This is the opening scene of Shakespeare's *The Life and Death of King John*, a history play from the 1590s. The French ambassador…

• The life and death of King Richard the Second

  This is the opening of Shakespeare's history play *Richard II* (c. 1595), written in blank verse and drawing on the English chronicle…

• The second Part of Henry the Sixt

  This is the opening act of Shakespeare's *Henry VI, Part 2* (c. 1591), a history play in the English chronicle tradition dramatizing the…

• The third Part of Henry the Sixt

  This is the opening scene of Shakespeare's *Henry VI, Part 3*, a history play from the First Folio (identifiable by period spelling and…

• Timon of Athens

  *Timon of Athens* is a Shakespearean tragedy (likely co-written with Thomas Middleton) in the tradition of classical morality drama. The…

• Titus Andronicus

  *Titus Andronicus* is Shakespeare's earliest and most brutal tragedy, written in the early 1590s in the tradition of Senecan revenge drama…

• Troilus and Cressida
• Twelfe Night, Or what you will

  Actus Primus, Scaena Prima. Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords. Duke.

• Twelfth Night

  *Twelfth Night* is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, written around 1601, belonging to the tradition of Elizabethan festive comedy…

• Two Gentlemen of Verona

  *The Two Gentlemen of Verona* is an early Shakespearean comedy in the romantic tradition, presenting the opening acts of a play about two…

• Venus and Adonis

  *Venus and Adonis* is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare, first published in 1593 and dedicated to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of…

*Date-written sort isn't available yet - none of the five sources currently capture a work's original composition/publication date, only when it was harvested. Falls back to A–Z for now.