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1592, March 3, Henry VI Part I first performance. First printed 1594.
1592-93 Henry VI Part II first performed.
1592-93 Henry VI, Part III first performed
1593, June 11 Taming of the Shrew first recorded performance.
1594 January 24 Titus Andronicus first performance.
1594, December 28 The Comedy of Errors confirmed performance.
1594-95 Two Gentlemen of Verona first performed.
1594-95 Love's Labour's Lost first performed.
1594-95 Romeo and Juliet first performad.
1595 December 9 Richard III, first recorded performance.
1595-96 A Midsummer Night's Dream first performed.
1596-97 The Merchant of Venice first performed.
1597, April 23 The Merry Wives of Windsor first recorded performance (for Queen at Garter Feast).
1597, December Love's Labour's Lost first recorded performance.
1597-98 Henry IV, Part I first performed.
1597-98 Henry IV, Part II first performed.
1598 King John first performed.
1598-99 Much Ado About Nothing first performed.
1598-99 Henry V first performed.
1600, August 4 As You Like It first performed.
1599 (Globe Theatre, London) Julius Caesar first performed.
1600-01 Hamlet first performed.
1602, February 2 Twelfth Night first recorded performance.
1602-03 All's Well That Ends Well first performed.
1604 February 7 first recorded production of Troilus and Cressida.
1604, November 1 Othello first recorded performance.
1604, December 26 Measure for Measure first performance.
1606, December 26 King Lear first recorded performance.
1605-06 Macbeth first performed. First printed 1623.
1606-07 Antony and Cleopatra first performed. First printed 1623.
1607-08 Coriolanus fikimrst performed.
1607-08 Timon of Athens first performed.
1608-09 Pericles first performed.
1610-12 Cymbeline first recorded performance.
1611, November 1 The Tempest first recorded performance.
1611, May 15 (Globe Theatre, London) The Winter's Tale first recorded performance.
1613, June 29 Henry VIII first recorded performance.
1612-13 The Two Noble Kinsmen first performed. First printed 1634.
 
 
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