(1588-1593)

(1594-1600)

(1601-1607)

(1608-1612)
 Four periods of Shakespeare’s Plays
Shakespeare Plays: Period of Experimentation (1588-1593)

To this period belong: Titus Andronicus; Henry VI (three parts); Love’s Labour’s Lost; Comedy of Errors; Two
gentlemen of Verona; Richard III; Richard II; Romeo and Juliet. To this period belong also the two poems: Venus
and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.

Shakespeare Plays: Period of the Humor and History (1594-1600)

The works of this period are: King John; The Merchant of Venice; Henry IV (Part I and Part II); Henry V; The
taming of the Shrew; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Much Ado about nothing; As you like it and twelfth Night.

Shakespeare Plays Period of the tragedies, and bitter comedies (1601-1607)

To this period belong: Julius Caesar; Hamlet; All’s Well that Ends Well; Measure for Measure; Troilus and
Cressida; Othello; Lear, Macbeth; Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus; and Timon of Athens.

Shakespeare Plays: Period of the Fine Comedies or Dramatic Romances (1608-1612)

The plays of this period are: Pericles; Cymbeline; The winter’s tale; The Tempest; and the unfinished Henry VIII.
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