英汉双解莎士比亚大词典︱GENERAL INTRODUCTION　II. A CHRONOLOGICALLIST OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS AND POEMS

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION　II. A CHRONOLOGICALLIST OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS AND POEMS

38 of Shakespeare’s plays have come down tous. But it is often difficult to date a given playprecisely. Scholars have had to work out thechronological order of his plays, based on threekinds of evidence, i. e. external evidence (re-cords of performance and publication, or refer-ences in contemporary works), internal evi-dence (allusions in the plays to contemporary e-vents, or quotations from contemporaryworks), and stylistic evidence (changes and de-velopments in Shakespeare’s use of blank verse,rhyme and prose). By a combination of thethree kinds of evidence, most plays can be datedapproximately and placed in the order of theirwriting, so that it is possible to traceShakespeare’s development as a dramatist. Thefollowing is a list of Shakespeare’s plays in theirapproximate chronological order with the datesof publication of his two narrative poems and sonnets: 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 　 Year Play or Poem 1590 Henry VI, Part II Henry VI, Part III 1591 Henry VI, Part I1592 Richard III The Comedy of Errors 1593 Titus Andronicus The Taming of the Shrew Venus and Adonis (published) 1594 The Two Gentlemen of Verona Love’s Labour’s LostRomeo and Juliet The Rape of Lucrece (published) 1595 Richard II A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1596 King John The Merchant of Venice 1597 Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part II 1598 Much Ado about Nothing Henry V The Merry Wives of Windsor 1599 Julius Caesar As You Like It 1600 Twelfth Night1601 Hamlet The Phoenix and the Turtle (pub-lished) 1602 Troilus and Cressida 1603 All's Well That Ends Well1604 Measure for Measure Othello 1605 King Lear Macbeth 1606 Antony and Cleopatra1607 Coriolanus Timon of Athens 1608 Pericles1609 Cymbeline Sonnets,A Lover's Complaint(published) 1610 The Winter's Tale 1611 The Tempest1612 Henry VIII 1613 The Two Noble Kinsmen