Chapter Shadwell to Shalott of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Antony and Cleopatra, 1608. No early mention made of this play.

As You Like It. Entered at Stationer’s Hall, 1600.

Comedy of Errors, 1593. Mentioned by Meres, 1598.

Coriolanus, 1610. No early mention made of this play.

Cymbeline, 1605. No early mention made of this play.

I Henry VI. Alluded to by Nash in Pierce Penniless, 1592.

2 Henry VI. Original title, First part of the Contention, 1594.

3 Henry VI. Original title, True Tragedy of Richard duke of York, 1595.

Henry VIII., 1601. Acted at the Globe Theatre, 1613.

John (King), 1596. Mentioned by Meres, 1598.

Julius Cæsar, 1607. No early mention made of this play.

Lear, 1605. Acted at Whitehall, 1607. Printed 1608.

Macbeth, 1606. No early mention made of this play.

Measure for Measure, 1603. Acted at Whitehall, 1604.

Merry Wives of Windsor, 1596. Printed 1602.

Pericles Prince of Tyre. Printed 1609.

Taming of the Shrew, (?) Acted at Henslow’s Theatre, 1593. Entered at Stationers’ Hall, 1607.

Tempest, 1609. Acted at Whitehall, 1611.

Timon of Athens, 1609. No early mention made of this play.

Titus Andronicus, 1593. Printed 1600.

Twelfth Night. Acted in the Middle Temple Hall, 1602.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1595. Mentioned by Meres, 1598.

Winter’s Tale, 1604. Acted at Whitehall, 1611.

First complete collection in folio: 1623, Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount; 1632, 1664, 1685. The second folio is of very little value.

His plays were first collected and published by Condell and Heminge. This is called the “First Folio,” and was issued in 1623. The publishers were contemporaries and friends of the great dramatist, and spell his name “Shakespeare.”

Shakespeare’s Parents. His father was John Shakespeare, a glover, who married Mary Arden, daughter of Robert Arden, Esq., of Bomich, a good county gentleman.

Shakespeare’s Wife, Anne Hathaway of Shottery, some eight years older than himself; daughter of a substantial yeoman.