His earliest plays seem to date from the late 1580s to the mid-1590s and include the comedies:
Love’s Labour’s Lost,
The Comedy of Errors,
The Taming of the Shrew,
and A Midsummer Night’s Dream;
history plays based on the lives of the English kings, including:
Henry VI (parts 1, 2, and 3),
Richard III, and Richard II;
and the tragedy Romeo and Juliet.