What is it?

Is it a tragedy, a history, a romance or a comedy? Click on the link to see what plays fall in the following categories.

Comedies

• The Comedy of Errors
  
• The Taming of the Shrew
  
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  
• Love's Labor's Lost
  
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  
• The Merchant of Venice
  
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
  
• Much Ado About Nothing
  
• As You Like It
  
• Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
  
• The History of Troilus and Cressida
  
• All's Well That Ends Well
  
• Measure for Measure
  

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Histories

• Henry the Sixth, Part 1
  
• Henry the Sixth, Part 2
  
• Henry the Sixth, Part 3
  
• Richard the Third
  
• The Life and Death of King John
  
• Richard the Second
  
• Henry the Fourth, Part 1
  
• Henry the Fourth, Part 2
  
• The Life of Henry the Fifth
  
• The Life of Henry the Eighth
  

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Tragedies

• Titus Andronicus
  
• Romeo and Juliet
  
• Julius Caesar
  
• Hamlet
  
• Othello
  
• King Lear
  
• Macbeth
  
• Anthony and Cleopatra
  
• Coriolanus
  
• Timon of Athens
  

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Romances

• Pericles
  
• Cymbeline
  
• The Winter's Tale
  
• The Tempest
  
• The Two Noble Kinsmen
  

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Sonnets and Poems

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

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