LOST YEARS

THE WORKSShakespeare’s early works to mid-1594, can be

divided into 4 groups: 1. The Classical Plays

2. The History Plays3. The Narrative Poems and

Sonnets4. Experiments in Comedy

DATE COMEDIES HISTORIES TRAGEDIES1590-1592 Love's Labor's Lost 1,2,3 Henry VI

1592-1594Comedy of Errors, Two Gentleman of

1593-1594 Richard III Titus Andronicus

1594-1596Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice

King John  Richard II

1594-1597 Taming of the Shrew Romeo and Juliet1597-1598 1,2 Henry IV1598-1599 Henry V Julius Ceaser1597-1600 Merry Wives of 1598-1600 Much About Nothing1599-1600 As You Like It1599-1601 Twelfth Night1600-1601 Hamlet1600-1604 All's Well that Ends Well1601-1603 Troilus and Cressida1603-1604 Measure for Measure1604-1605 Othello

1605-1606King Lear  Macbeth

1607-1608 PericlesAnthony and Cleopatra  Timon of Athens

1608-1610 Coriolanus1609-1610 Cymbeline1610-1611 Winter's Tale1611-1612 Tempest1612-1613 Henry VIII

THE GLOBE

“GOOD FREND FOR JESUS SAKE FORBEARE,TO DIGG THE DUST ENCLOASED HEARE.BLESTE BE Ye MAN Yt SPARES THES STONES,AND CURST BE HE Yt MOVES MY BONES.”

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve

greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." 

— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)