Shakespeare

  • Period: Apr 23, 1564 to

    Shakespeare is born and dies

  • Sep 1, 1569

    Started King Edward VI School

  • Period: Jan 1, 1578 to Jan 1, 1582

    The lost years with no record of activity

  • Period: to

    Sussanna is born and dies

  • Period: to

    Hamnet is born and dies

  • Period: to

    Judith is born and dies

  • Titus Andronicus

  • Richard III

  • The Taming of Shrew

  • Married Anne Hathaway

  • Venus & Adonis

  • Theatre closes due to the Plague

  • The Comedy of Errors

  • The theatre reopens

  • Richard II

  • Love’s Labour’s Lost

  • King John

  • Hamnet dies

  • Romeo and Juliet

  • The Merry Wives of Windsor

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona

  • Love’s Labour’s Won

  • Hamlet

  • Henry V

  • Julius Caesar

  • Much Ado About Nothing

  • Sir John Oldcastle

  • As You Like It

  • Twelfth Night

  • Measure for Measure

  • Troilus & Cressida

  • All’s Well That Ends Well

  • Othello

  • The Merchant of Venice

  • Coriolanus

  • Antony and Cleopatra

  • King Lear

  • Timon of Athens

  • Cymbeline

  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre

  • The Tempest

  • The Winter’s Tale

  • Macbeth

  • Macbeth

  • Shakespeare retired

    He wrote 37 plays in total or 40 if you count the two lost plays and the one he did as a collaboration.
  • Henry VIII

  • The theatre burned down

    Shakespeare used a canon to add effects to the play King Henry VIII but it accidentally burned the theatre down at the same time.
  • Most of his plays were published even though he was dead