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Line 3: − His best-known plays include ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1595), ''Julius Caesar'' (1599), ''Hamlet'' (1602), ''Othello'' (1603), ''Timon of Athens'' (1604), ''King Lear'' (1605), ''Macbeth'' (1606), ''Anthony and Cleopatra'' (1607), ''Coriolanus'' (1610), ''The Comedy of Errors'' (1591), ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1593), ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona'' (1594), ''Love's Labour's Lost'' (1595), ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (1596), ''The Merchant of Venice'' (1597), ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (1598), ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (1599), ''As You Like It'' (1600), ''Twelfth Night'' (1600), ''Troilus and Cressida'' (1601), ''All's Well That Ends Well'' (1602), ''Measure for Measure'' (1603), ''Pericles'' (1606), ''Cymbeline'' (1609), ''The Winter's Tale'' (1610), ''The Tempest'' (1611), ''Henry VI: Part I'' (1589), ''Henry VI: Part II'' (1590), ''Henry VI: Part III'' (1591), ''Richard III'' (1593), ''Richard II'' (1595), ''King John'' (1607), ''Henry IV: Part I'' (1597), ''Henry IV: Part I'' (1598), ''Henry V'' (1599), and ''Henry VIII'' (1612).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.</ref>+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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Among Shakespeare's plays, ''Hamlet'' has the most words (30,557), while ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' has only 16,511 words.
Among Shakespeare's plays, ''Hamlet'' has the most words (30,557), while ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' has only 16,511 words.
==The Comedies==
Shakepeare's Comedies bear complex, language-driven plots often involving cases of mistaken identity, family tensions, and word-games.
*''[[All's Well That Ends Well]]''
*''[[As You Like It]]''
*''[[The Comedy of Errors]]''
*''[[Cymbeline]]''
*''[[Love's Labours Lost]]''
*''[[Measure for Measure]]''
*''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]''
*''[[The Merchant of Venice]]''
*''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''
*''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''
*''[[Pericles, Prince of Tyre]]''
*''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]''
*''[[The Tempest]]''
*''[[Twelfth Night]]''
*''[[Two Gentlemen of Verona]]''
*''[[The Two Noble Kinsmen]]''
*''[[The Winter's Tale]]''
==The Tragedies==
The Tragedies include some of his most famous works: ''Hamlet'', ''King Lear'', ''Macbeth'', and ''Romeo and Juliet'', and are centered around the actions of a protagonist in which the audience observes this character's rise and fall to a tragic end.
*''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]''
*''[[Coriolanus]]''
*''[[Cymbeline]]''
*''[[Hamlet]]''
*''[[Julius Caesar]]''
*''[[King Lear]]''
*''[[Macbeth]]''
*''[[Othello]]''
*''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''
*''[[Timon of Athens]]''
*''[[Titus Andronicus]]''
*''[[Troilus and Cressida]]''
==Histories==
With the exception of ''Pericles'' the historical plays were set during the period of the [[Hundred Years War]], with the [[Wars of the Roses]] in particular. In these works Shakespeare was more interested in social-political commentary than he was about being historically accurate.
*''[[The First Part of King Henry IV|Henry IV, Part I]]''
*''[[The Second Part of King Henry IV|Henry IV, Part II]]''
*''[[Henry V]]''
*''[[The First Part of King Henry VI|Henry VI, Part I]]''
*''[[The Second Part of King Henry VI|Henry VI, Part II]]''
*''[[The Third Part of King Henry VI|Henry VI, Part III]]''
*''[[Henry VIII]]''
*''[[King John]]''
*''[[Pericles]]''
*''[[Richard II]]''
*''[[Richard III]]''
==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Plays of Shakespeare|*]]
[[Category:Plays of Shakespeare|*]]