Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy
Sir John Gilbert's 1849 painting: The Plays of Shakespeare, containing scenes and characters from several of William Shakespeare's plays
First edition of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, printed 1577
The modern reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, in London
Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, published in 1623, about seven y
Title page of the first impression (1623)
Memorial to William Shakespeare in the Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
Table of Contents from the First Folio
Memorial to John Heminges and Henry Condell, editors of the First Folio, at Bassishaw, London