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*all are plays unless otherwise noted; spellings have been modernized
Venus and Adonis (narrative poem). London: Printed by Richard Field, sold by J. Harrison, 1593.
The First Part of the Contention between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (abridged and corrupt version of 2 Henry VI). London: Printed by Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington, 1594.
Lucrece (narrative poem). London: Printed by Richard Field for John Harrison, 1594. Republished as The Rape of Lucrece, Newly Revised, London: Printed by T. Snodham for R. Jackson, 1616.
The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of Titus Andronicus. London: Printed by John Danter for Edward White and Thomas Millington, 1594.
A Pleasant Conceited History, Called the Taming of a Shrew (corrupt text). London: Printed by Peter Short for Cuthbert Burby, 1594. This was the first publication of a Shakespeare play to be attributed to him on the title page; all subsequent publications of his plays in his lifetime, as well as all new editions of previously published ones, would carry his name.
The True Tragedy of Richard, Duke of York, and the Death of Good King Henry the Sixth (abridged and corrupt version of 3 Henry VI). London: Printed by Peter Short for Thomas Millington, 1595.
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. London: Printed by Valentine Simmes and Peter Short for Andrew Wise, 1597.
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second. Printed by Valentine Simmes for Andrew Wise, 1597.
An Excellent Conceited Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (corrupt text). London: Printed by John Danter, 1597. The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: Newly Corrected, Augmented, and Amended. London: Printed by Thomas Creede for Cuthbert Burby, 1599.
A Pleasant Conceited Comedy Called Love's Labour's Lost. London: Printed by William White for Cuthbert Burby, 1598.
The History of Henry the Fourth [Part I]. London: Printed by Peter Short for Andrew Wise, 1598.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. London: Printed by R. Bradcock for Thomas Fisher, 1600.
The Most Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. London: Printed by James Roberts for Thomas Heyes, 1600.
The Second Part of Henry the Fourth. London: Printed by Valentine Simmes for Andrew Wise and William Aspley, 1600.
Much Ado About Nothing. London: Printed by Valentine Simmes for Andrew Wise and William Aspley, 1600.
The Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth (corrupt text). London: Printed by Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington and John Busby, 1600.
The Phoenix and the Turtle (poem). Printed in Robert Chester, Love's Martyr, London: Printed by Richard Field for E. Blount, 1601.
A Most Pleasant and Excellent Conceited Comedy of Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor (corrupt text). London: Printed by Thomas Creede for Arthur Johnson, 1602.
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. (abridged and corrupt version). London: Printed by Valentine Simmes for Nicholas Ling and John Trundell, 1603. The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Newly Imprinted and Enlarged to Almost as Much Again as It Was, According to the True and Perfect Copy. London: Printed by James Roberts for Nicholas Ling, 1604.
True Chronicle History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. London: Printed by Nicholas Oakes for Nathaniel Butter, 1608.
The History of Troilus and Cressida. London: Printed by G. Eld for R. Bonian and H. Walley, 1609.
Shakespeare's Sonnets. London: Printed by G. Eld for Thomas Thorpe, 1609.
The Late and Much Admired Play Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. London: Printed by W. White for Henry Gosson, 1609.
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice. London: Printed by Nicholas Oakes for Thomas Walkley, 1622.
Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: Published According to the True Original Copies. London: Printed by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. The First Folio.
The Two Noble Kinsmen (with John Fletcher). London: Printed by Thomas Cotes for John Waterson, 1634.
1) One-volume editions
2) Series of individual volumesThe Complete Works. General ed. Alfred Harbage. Baltimore: Penguin, 1969.
The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare. General ed. Sylvan Barnet. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1972. Revised ed., 1989. Also available in separate paperback editions.
The Riverside Shakespeare. General ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. Revised ed., 1997.
The Complete Works. General eds. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor. Oxford University Press, 1986.
The Norton Shakespeare. General ed. Stephen Greenblatt. New York: Norton, 1997.
The Complete Works. Ed. David Bevington. New York: Longman, 1997.
The New Shakespeare. 39 vol. Ed. J. Dover Wilson, Arthur Quiller-Couch, and others. Cambridge University Press, 1921-1967.
The Arden Shakespeare. General eds. Harold F. Brooks, Harold Jenkins, and others. London: Methuen, 1951- .
The New Penguin Shakespeare. General ed. T. J. B. Spencer. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1967- .
Anthony Burgess. Shakespeare. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1970. Burgess, best known as the author of A Clockwork Orange, also wrote a novel about Shakespeare, Nothing Like the Sun (1964).
E. K. Chambers. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. 2 vol. Oxford University Press, 1930.
A. L. Rowse. William Shakespeare: A Biography. London: Macmillan, 1963. Lively, but speculative and not always reliable.
S. Schoenbaum. Shakespeare's Lives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Revised ed. 1991. By far the best book on the subject.
----------. William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life. London: Oxford University Press/Scolar Press, 1975.
----------. William Shakespeare: Records and Images. London: Oxford University Press/Scolar Press, 1981.
Additional Resources: The Critical Archives include onsite articles about Shakespeare. Continue your Web Explorations by visiting Shakespeare Links.A. C. Bradley. Shakespearean Tragedy. London: Macmillan, 1904.
Robert Giroux. The Book Known as Q: A Consideration of Shakespeare's Sonnets. New York: Atheneum, 1982.
H. C. Granville-Barker. Prefaces to Shakespeare. 2 vol. Princeton University Press, 1946-47. His discussion of Hamlet is in the first volume, of Othello in the second, both still very much worth reading.
Stanley Edgar Hyman. Iago: Some Approaches to the Illusion of His Motivation. New York: Atheneum, 1970. A compact survey of the various critical approaches taken to the subject.
John W. Mahon and Thomas A. Pendleton, ed. "Fanned and Winnowed Opinions." London and New York: Methuen, 1987. Includes essays on Hamlet by George Walton Williams, Richard Proudfoot, and Alastair Fowler, and on Othello by Kenneth Palmer. The editors of this volume are also the editors of the lively and entertaining Shakespeare Newsletter, a quarterly publication.
Irvin Leigh Matus. Shakespeare, In Fact. New York: Continuum, 1994. A solid and sensible account of the authorship controversy.
Helen Vendler. The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
J. Dover Wilson. What Happens in "Hamlet." London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1935.
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