William Shakespeare: A Journey of Genius

by Bernie Burns

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   50 blog entries to be published regularly, as follows:

1. The Genius of William Shakespeare (1 entry)
2. The Life and Times of William Shakespeare (1 entry)
3. An Introduction to the Works of William Shakespeare
4. The 38 plays (38 entries) (individual links below)
5. The 154 sonnets (4 entries)
6. The lengthy poems (3 entries)
7. The disputed or lost plays (2 entries)
8. The deserved legacy (1 entry)

Order of the Plays to be examined:

——————-Apprentice Works———————

• Titus Andronicus (1589)
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590)
• Henry VI, Part I (1590).                                
• Henry VI, Part II (1591)
• Henry VI, Part III (1591-92)

——————-Early Classics———————

• Richard III (1592)
• Comedy of Errors (1592).                           
• Taming of the Shrew (1594)
• Love’s Labour’s Lost (1594-95)

——————Mature Works——————-

• Romeo and Juliet (1595)
• Midsummer Night’s Dream (1594-95).    
• King John (1596)
• Merchant of Venice (1596-97).                     
• Richard II (1595)
• Henry IV, Part 1 (1596-97).
• Henry IV, Part 2 (1597-98)
• Henry V (1599)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597)
• Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99)
• As You Like It (1599-1600)

——————-Tragic Genius——————-

• Julius Caesar (1599)
• Hamlet (1599-1601)
• Twelfth Night (1601)
• Troilus and Cressida (1601-1602)
• Measure for Measure (1603-04).                
• Othello (1603-04)                                                          
• All’s Well That Ends Well (1604-05)
• Macbeth (1605)
• King Lear (1605-06)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
• Coriolanus (1608)
• Timon of Athens (1605-06)

—————Romantic Comedies——————–

• Pericles (1607-08)
• Cymbeline (1609)                        
• Winter’s Tale (1610)

—————Collaborations———————–

• Henry VIII (1612)                          
• Two Noble Kinsmen (1613)

————–Swan Song———————

• The Tempest                    

————–Lost or Disputed———————    

•  Edmund Ironside                                 
• Edward III
• Cardenio