Category: Shakespeare’s Plays

King John

The history play King John originated from an early manuscript or foul papers dated from 1596 and then copied by two different scribes from 1609-1623.

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Julius Caesar

One of Shakespeare’s early Roman Plays, Julius Caesar was partly derived from an anonymous play: “The Tragedy of Caesar and Pompey, or Caesar’s Revenge” (c.

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Sir Thomas More

From the British library the only original manuscript to survive of Shakespeare’s is “Sir Thomas More” generally ascribed to Anthony Munday but on closer examination

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As You Like It

Presumed to have been written in 1599 and registered a year later at the Stationer’s Office on the 4th of August, 1600, and first published

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Edward III

Presumed to have been written 1589-95 and registered at the Stationer’s Office on the 1st December 1595, followed by further editions in 1596 (Q1), 1599

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Coriolanus

Shakespeare might have had either Sir Walter Raleigh or the Earl of Essex in mind when developing the central heroic character of Coriolanus. The aristocrats

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Henry VIth Part Two

Henry VIth Part Two is presumed to have been written from 1587-92 and registered at the Stationer’s Office 12th of March, 1594 (Q1), with the

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Henry VIth Part Three

Henry VIth Part 3 was probably written as early as 1592 or even earlier employing Raphael Holinshed’s and Edward Hall’s “Chronicles of England, Scotland &

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre:

One of the plays that was not included in the 1623 Shakespeare Folio Pericles, Prince of Tyre was dubiously published under Shakespeare‘s name but later

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