This article presents a possible chronological listing of the composition of the plays of William Shakespeare.
Extract from Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia (1598), which makes reference to twelve of Shakespeare's plays.
1596 second quarto of A Shrew
1594 quarto of The First part of the Contention
Richard III (play)
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Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare. It was probably written c. 1592–1594. It is labelled a history in the First Folio, and is usually considered one, but it is sometimes called a tragedy, as in the quarto edition. Richard III concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy and depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England.
Richard III terrified by nightmarish visions. Shakespeare, Act 5, Scene 9, painting by Nicolai Abildgaard. Nivaagaard Collection.
English actor David Garrick as Richard III just before the battle of Bosworth Field. His sleep having been haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered, he wakes to the realisation that he is alone in the world and death is imminent. David Garrick as Richard III (1745), William Hogarth
The first page of Richard III, printed in the Second Folio of 1632