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William Shakespeare

April 20, 1564 - April 23, 1616

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays,[c] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. (Source.)

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The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623
661 editions - first published in 1603 Read
Macbeth
563 editions - first published in 1673 Read
Romeo and Juliet
380 editions - first published in 1599 Read
King Lear
378 editions - first published in 1608 Read
Tempest
360 editions - first published in 1670 Read
Othello
359 editions - first published in 1655 Read
Merchant of Venice
355 editions - first published in 1619 Read
Julius Caesar
352 editions - first published in 1684 Read
Sonnets 1609
342 editions - first published in 1609 Read
Midsummer night's dream
323 editions - first published in 1600 Read
Twelfth night
316 editions - first published in 1734 Read
Henry V
313 editions - first published in 1608 Read
As you like it
286 editions - first published in 1734 Read
Antony and Cleopatra
255 editions - first published in 1734 Read
King Richard III
236 editions - first published in 1597 Read
Much ado about nothing
203 editions - first published in 1734 Read
Tragedies
197 editions - first published in 1664 Read
Measure for measure
182 editions - first published in 1722 Read
The comedies histories & tragedies of William Shakespeare
181 editions - first published in 1732 Read
King Richard II
180 editions - first published in 1597 Read
Coriolanus
161 editions - first published in 1734 Read
Taming of the shrew
159 editions - first published in 1734 Read
King Henry VI
158 editions - first published in 1623 Read
Winter's tale
155 editions - first published in 1735 Read
Love's labour's lost
146 editions - first published in 1735 Read
King John
143 editions - first published in 1700 Read
King Henry IV
142 editions - first published in 1613 Read
Cymbeline
141 editions - first published in 1734 Read
Troilus and Cressida
137 editions - first published in 1714 Read
King Henry VIII
120 editions - first published in 1734 Read
All's well that ends well
119 editions - first published in 1734 Read
Timon of Athens
118 editions - first published in 1734 Read
Comedy of errors
114 editions - first published in 1734 Read
Pericles
109 editions - first published in 1734 Read
Merry wives of Windsor
106 editions - first published in 1710 Read
Poems
103 editions - first published in 1771 Read
Two gentlemen of Verona
93 editions - first published in 1734 Read
Works (Hudson)
72 editions - first published in 1847 Read
The complete works
71 editions - first published in 1850 Read
The works of Shakespeare
62 editions - first published in 1733 Read
Venus and Adonis
46 editions - first published in 1593 Read
Shakespeare
43 editions - first published in 1863 Read
William Shakespeare
36 editions - first published in 1898 DAISY
King Henry IV. Part 1
34 editions - first published in 1860 Borrow
Romeo y Julieta
26 editions - first published in 1918
The dramatic works of William Shakespeare
25 editions - first published in 1807 Read
Shakespeare's works
24 editions - first published in 1872 Read
Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, and tragedies: published according to the true originall copies.
20 editions - first published in 1623 Read
The tragedies of Shakespeare
19 editions - first published in 1903 Borrow
Dramatic works
18 editions - first published in 1786 Read
Comedies
18 editions - first published in 1906 Borrow
The works of Shakespear
17 editions - first published in 1723 Read
Œuvres completes
17 editions - first published in 1865 Read
NEW PENGUIN SHAKESPEARE
16 editions - first published in 1967
The plays of Shakespeare
16 editions - first published in 1771 Read
A new variorum edition of Shakespeare: Edited by Horace Howard Furness [and others]
15 editions - first published in 1871 Read
The ages of man: Shakespeare's image of man and nature
14 editions - first published in 1939
The life of King Henry VIII
14 editions - first published in 1670 Read
Booklovers edition: with introductions, notes, glossary, critical comments and method of study
14 editions - first published in 1901 Read
Shakespeare's tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: ed., with notes
14 editions - first published in 1879 Read
El mercader de Venecia
13 editions - first published in 1940
Shakespeare's Tales
13 editions - first published in 2002
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
13 editions - first published in 1879 Read
Shakespeare's tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice: as produced by Edwin Booth
13 editions - first published in 1869 Read
Select plays: Edited by W.A. Wright
13 editions - first published in 1876 Read
The passionate pilgrim
13 editions - first published in 1883 Read
Samlede skuespil
12 editions - first published in 1975
Shashibiya quan ji
12 editions - first published in 1967
El Rey Lear
12 editions - first published in 1979
The tragedie of Julius Caesar
12 editions - first published in 1904
Ein Sommernachtstraum
12 editions - first published in 1873
Histories and poems
12 editions - first published in 1801
The rape of Lucrece
12 editions - first published in 1655 Read
The London Shakespeare
12 editions - first published in 1957 Borrow
The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition
11 editions - first published in 2000
Romeo und Julia
11 editions - first published in 1885 Read
The annotated Shakespeare: complete works illustrated
11 editions - first published in 1978 Borrow
Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark
10 editions - first published in 1859 Read
Otelo
10 editions - first published in 1960
The Oxford Shakespeare: complete works
10 editions - first published in 1905
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
10 editions - first published in 1906 Read
Romeo Y Julieta / Romeo And Juliet
10 editions - first published in 1999
The Shakespeare apocrypha: being a collection of fourteen plays which have been ascribed to Shakespeare
9 editions - first published in 1908 Read
Roméo et Juliette
9 editions - first published in 1809
Shakespeare's songs
9 editions - first published in 1901 Read
King Henry IV, Part II
9 editions - first published in 1930
The works of Shakspere
9 editions - first published in 1800 Read
Le Roi Lear
9 editions - first published in 1873 Read
Sonnets, songs & poems
9 editions - first published in 1951 Borrow
Shakespeare's tragedy of Othello: as presented by Edwin Booth ...
9 editions - first published in 1878 Read
Shakespeare's tragedy of Pericles
8 editions - first published in 1896 Read
King Henry VI, Part III
8 editions - first published in 1964
Henry IV, Part II
8 editions - first published in 1960
No Title Exists
8 editions - first published in 1883
The Windsor Shakespeare
8 editions - first published in 1900
The plays of William Shakespeare in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illus. of various commentators, to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens, rev. and augm. by Isaac Reed, with a glossarial index
8 editions - first published in 1813 Read
Henry IV, part 2
8 editions - first published in 1965 DAISY
Shakespearian quotations in everyday use: a key to their source and context
8 editions - first published in 1927
The Diamond Throne
8 editions - first published in 1989 Borrow
Henry VI, Part Two
8 editions - first published in 1967

People

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Henry IV King of England (1367-1413), Henry VI King of England (1421-1471), Henry V King of England (1387-1422), Julius Caesar, Richard III King of England (1452-1485), Macbeth King of Scotland (11th cent), Cnaeus Marcius Coriolanus, Marcus Antonius (83?-30 B.C), Richard II King of England (1367-1400), Cleopatra Queen of Egypt (d. 30 B.C), Henry VIII King of England (1491-1547), John King of England (1167-1216), William Dodd (1729-1777), John King of England (1167?-1216), Lucretia, Joseph Ashbury, William Shakespeare (1564-1616,), Hamlet (Legendary character), Richard III King of England, Henry V king of England (1387-1422), K. R. Grand Duke of Russia (1858-1915), Harald Metzkes, Richard Duke of York (1411-1460), Marcus Junius Brutus (85?-42 B.C)

Time

Henry IV, 1399-1413, Civil War, 43-31 B.C., John, 1199-1216, Henry VI, 1422-1461, Early modern, 1500-1700, Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600, 16th century, Republic, 510-265 B.C., Germanic invasions, 3rd-6th centuries, 17th century, Richard III, 1483-1485, Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D., Henry VIII, 1509-1547, 1800-1950, Richard II, 1377-1399, 1066-1687, Germanic Invations, 3rd-6th centuries, 21st century, Henry V, 1413-1422, 332-30 B.C., Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries, 1625-1800, 1950-, 53-44 B.C., Guerra Civil, 43-31 a.C.

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Alternative names

Shakespeare, William
William Shakespear
William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare hamlet
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
W M Shakespeare
William Shakespeare -
W. SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare (edited By Peter Alexander)
Cletus Shakespeare
Shakespeare.
shakespeare
Shakespeare Arden
David and Leigh EDDINGS
David and Leigh Eddings
David And Leigh Eddings
DAVID EDDINGS
David Eddings
Leigh Eddings
Walter Brown Gibson
Walter B. Gibson

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March 7, 2013	Edited by Jim Jones	merge authors
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