Order of composition of the Elizabethan plays

1590-1 Two Gentlemen of Verona

1590-1 The Taming of the Shrew

1591 2 Henry VI

1592 3 Henry VI

1592 1 Henry VI

1592 Titus Andronicus

1592-3 Richard III

1592-3 Venus and Adonis

1593-4 The Rape of Lucrece

1594 The Comedy of Errors

1594-5 Love's Labour's Lost

1595 Richard III

1595 Romeo and Juliet

1595 A Midsummer Night's Dream

1596 King John

1596-7 The Merchant of Venice

1596-7 1 Henry IV

1597-8 The Merry Wives of Windsor

1597-8 2 Henry IV

1598 Much Ado About Nothing

1598-9 Henry V

1599 Julius Caesar

1599-1600 As You Like It

1600-1 Hamlet

1601 Twelfth Night

1602 Troilus and Cressida

1593-1603 The Sonnets

1603 Measure for Measure

1603-4 Othello

1604-5 All’s Well That Ends Well

1605 Timon of Athens

1605-6 King Lear

1606 Macbeth

1606 Antony and Cleopatra

1607 Pericles

1608 Coriolanus

1609 The Winter’s Tale

1610 Cymbeline

1611 The Tempest

1613 Henry VIII

1613-14 Two Noble Kinsmen