"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
- MacBeth, in MacBeth

WORKS

Plays:
  Before 1594
   Henry VI
   Richard III
   Titus Andronicus
   Love? Labour? Lost
   The Two Gentleman of Verona
   The Comedy of Errors
   The Taming of the Shrew
  1594-1597
   Romeo and Juliet
   A Midsummer Night? Dream
   Richard II
   King John
   The Merchant of Venice
  1597-1600
   Henry IV
   Henry V
   Much Ado about Nothing
   Merry Wives of Windsor
   As You Like It
   Julius Ceasar
   Troylus and Cressida
  1601-1608
   Hamlet
   Twelfth Night
   Measure for Measure
   All? Well that Ends Well
   Othello
   King Lear
   Macbeth
   Timon of Athens
   Antony and Cleopatra
   Corialanus
  After 1608
   Pericles
   Cymbeline
   The Winter's Tale
   The Tempest
   Henry VIII

Poems:
   Venus and Adonis
   The Rape of Lucrece
   Sonnets
   A Lover's Complaint
   The Phoenix and the Turtle