This article presents a possible chronological listing of the composition of the plays of William Shakespeare.
Edmond Malone was the first scholar to construct a tentative chronology of Shakespeare's plays in An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays attributed to Shakspeare were Written (1778), an essay published in the second edition of Samuel Johnson and George Steevens's 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
Henry VI, Part 1
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Henry VI, Part 1, often referred to as 1 Henry VI, is a history play by William Shakespeare—possibly in collaboration with Thomas Nashe and others—believed to have been written in 1591. It is set duri
Chronology of Shakespeare's plays
…The chronology presented by E. K. Chambers in 1930 is as follows: Henry VI, Part 1 (1591–1592) Henry VI, Part 2 (1591–1592…
First page of The first Part of Henry the Sixt from the First Folio (1623).
Frederick and Alfred Heath engraving of Scene in the Temple Garden by John Pettie (1871)
H. C. Selous's illustration of Joan's fiends abandoning her in Act 5, Scene 3; from The Plays of William Shakespeare: The Historical Plays, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke (1830)
Title page from the 1550 edition of Edward Hall's The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York.