Sämtliche Werke

by William Shakespeare

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Table of Contents

List of Works by Genre
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
List of
Works in Chronological Order
William Shakespeare Biography

Comedies:
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado about Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Taming of the
Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The
Winter's Tale

Histories:
King Henry IV, Part 1
King Henry IV, Part 2

King Henry V
King Henry VI, Part 1
King Henry VI, Part 2
King
Henry VI, Part 3
King Henry VIII
King John
King Richard II
King
Richard III

Tragedies:
Antony and Cleopatra

Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet
Othello
Timon of Athens
Titus
Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida

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

Genres: Classics

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2003

About the author

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI and I of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".