SHAKESPEARE'S CANON
HISTORY PLAYS
ENGLISH MIDLE AGES
ANCIENT ROME
POWER
Richard III Henry V
Coriolanus
Anthony and Cleopatra
Julius Cesar
COMEDIES
from Plutarch
ITALIAN TALES
Midsummer Night's Dream Merchant of Venice
DARK COMEDIES / PROBLEM PLAYS
Happy ending, marriages, mistaken identities, misunderstandings
Comedies with a dark side, working of the mind
Hamlet / Measure for Measure / All's Well That Ends Well
GREAT TRAGEDIES
Tragic destiny of human kind, foolishness, loneliness in the universe
Macbeth King Lear Othello
ROMANCES
TRAGICOMEDIES
Magic elements, Supernatural, Improbable plots
The Tempest / Winter's Tale / Cymbeline
REVENGE PLAY
Titus Andronicus
TRAGEDY/COMEDY ??
Romeo and Juliet