| | Page Back | Poems Index | The Plays of William Shakespeare | | This is dedicated to the Plays of the great bard, with links to pages with the most famous Sonnets by Shakespeare, the Biography of Shakespeare & a list of Quotes by Shakespeare. | The Plays of William Shakespeare | Reading the plays of William Shakespeare can transport you from comedy to tragedy providing an insight to the life and times of William Shakespeare himself or even further back to the Roman era and beyond. The plays of William Shakespeare can therefore be divided into three categories: tragedies, comedies and histories. But love features in all of the Shakespearean plays. The most popular plays by Shakespeare include Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello and a Midsummer Nights Dream. | Famous Plays by William Shakespeare | The first section of Shakespearean plays fall under the History category. William Shakespeare features the characters who played major roles in English history particularly the Plantagenet and Tudor dynasties.
History themed Plays - King Henry IV Part 1
- King Henry IV Part 2
- King Henry V
- King Henry VI Part 1
- King Henry VI Part 2
- King Henry VI Part 3
- King Henry VIII
- King John
- Richard II
- Richard III
Tragedy themed Plays - Antony and Cleopatra
- Coriolanus
- Hamlet
- Julius Caesar
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- Othello
- Romeo and Juliet
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
Comedy themed Plays - Alls Well That Ends Well
- As You Like It
- Comedy of Errors
- Cymbeline
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Measure for Measure
- Merchant of Venice
- Merry Wives of Windsor
- Midsummer Nights Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- Taming of the Shrew
- Tempest
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Winter's Tale
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This page is dedicated to the plays of the great poet William Shakespeare
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