Total Number of Plays: 38
William Shakespeare, known as the Bard upon Avon, has written thirty-eight plays. It is said that Henry VI (Part I, Part II, and Part III) was his first published work written around 1589-1891. While he also writes long narrative poems, poetry, and sonnets, his most famous works are his plays. The most infamous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare's plays were so widely viewed that Queen Elizabeth I saw Henry IV and asked him to write a play showing Falstaff, a fictional character who appears in three plays and is eulogised in a fourth, falling in love. It isn't known for certain how Shakespeare entered the realm of theater, but it is assumed that he might have apprenticed with Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, or George Peele on Titus Andronicus.
Total Number of Plays: 38
Comedies
All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter’s Tale
Histories
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Tragedies
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida