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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, born at Stratford-Avon on 23rd April 1564. Left school in 1577 and in 1582 married Anne Hathaway. Went to London and became connected with the stage. In 1594 became a member of the Lord Chamberlain's company for which he wrote his plays. In 1611 he returned to live in Stratford and died there on 23rd April 1616.

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CHRONOLOGY OF THE PLAYS.

I. THE EPOCH OF HIS EARLY WORK, 1591-1593.

Love's Labour's Lost, 1591.
Two Gentlemen of Verona,

1591.
Comedy of Errors, 1592.
Romeo and Juliet, 1592.

Intermediate

Venus and Adonis, 1593.

Henry VI., 1592.
Richard III., 1593.
Richard II., 1593.

Titus Andronicus, 1593.

Epoch of the Poems.
Lucrece, 1594.

11. THE EPOCH OF HIS MATURING ART-THE PERIOD OF THE GREAT COMEDIES AND THE “HISTORIES," 1594-1601.

III. THE EPOCH OF HIS MATURE ART-THE PERIOD OF THE

Intermediate Epoch of the Sonnets, 1608-1609.

IV. THE EPOch of ReposefUL CONTEMPLATION, 1610-1611.

Cymbeline, 1610.

The Tempest, 1611.

The Winter's Tale, 1611.

Plays completed by others after his Retirement.

Cardenio, 1611.

Henry VIII., 1612.

Two Noble Kinsmen, 1612.