This page was originally created by Jeremy Hylton and was adapted by Martin Noble for the Aesop Shakespeare. |
1590-1592 | Henry VI, Part 1 | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1590-1 (JH). Probably written in 1592 (MN). |
1590-1594 | Love's Labour's Lost | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1590 (MN). Probably written in 1593 or 1594 (JH). |
1591-1594 | The Comedy of Errors | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1591 (MN). Probably the play 'The Night of Errors' performed on 28 December 1594 (JH). |
1592 | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1592 (MN). Mentioned by Francis Meres in 1598 (JH) |
1592 | Henry VI, Part 2 | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1592 (MN). Probably the play 'Harey the VJ' recorded as performed on 3 March 1592 by Lord Strange's Men (JH). |
1592-1593 | Richard III | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1593(MN). Probably first performed in 1592-3 (JH). |
1592-1595 | Henry VI, Part 3 | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1592 (MN). First published in 1595 (JH) |
1593-1594 | Titus Andronicus | Aesop version Hylton version | According to the first printing, performed by a company that had folded by the summer of 1593 (JH). Probably written in 1594 (MN) |
1593-1595 | Romeo and Juliet | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1593 (MN). Probably written in 1594 or 1595 (JH). |
1594-1595 | Richard II | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1594 (MN). Probably written no later than 1595 (JH). |
1594-1595 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1594 (MN). Probably written in 1594 or 1595 immediately before or after Romeo and Juliet (JH). |
1594-1596 | King John | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1594 (MN). Probably written in 1595 or 1596 JH). |
1595-1598 | The Merchant of Venice | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1595 (MN). Listed in the Stationers' Register on 22 July 1598, probably written a year or two before JH). |
1596 | Taming of the Shrew | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1596 (MN) |
1596-1598 | Henry IV, Part 1 | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1596 or 1597 (MN). Listed in the Stationers' Register of 25 February 1598 (JH). |
1596-1598 | Henry IV, Part 2 | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably begun in late 1596 or 1597 (JH). Probably written in 1598 (MN). |
1597-1599 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably performed on the occasion of the installation of George Carey, Lord Chamberlain and patron of Shakespeare's company, as a Knight of the Garter at Windsor (23 April 1597) (JH). Probably written in 1599 (MN). |
1599 | Much Ado About Nothing | Aesop version Hylton version | The role of Dogberry was probably written for Will Kemp, who left Shakespeare's company in 1599 (JH). Probably written in 1599 (MN). |
1599 | Henry V | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in the spring of 1599 (JH). Probably written in 1599 (MN). |
1599 | Julius Caesar | Aesop version Hylton version | A performance is recorded on 21 September 1599 (JH). Probably written in 1599 (MN). |
1600 | As You Like It | Aesop version Hylton version | Recorded in the Stationers' Register on 4 August 1600 (JH). Probably written in 1600 (MN). |
1600-1601 | Twelfth Night | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1600 (MN). Probably written in 1601 (JH). |
1600-1602 | Hamlet | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1600 and later revised (JH). Probably completed in 1602 (MN). |
1602 | Troilus and Cressida | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1602 (MN). |
1602 | All's Well That Ends Well | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1602 (MN). |
1604 | Measure for Measure | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1604 (MN). |
1604 | Othello | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1604 (MN). |
1605 | The Tragedy of King Lear | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1605 (MN). |
1606 | Macbeth | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1606 (MN). |
1607 | Antony and Cleopatra | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1607 (MN). |
1608 | Timon of Athens | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1608 (MN). |
1608 | Pericles | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1608 (MN). |
1608 | Coriolanus | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1608 (MN). |
1610 | The Winter's Tale | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1610 (MN). |
1610 | Cymbeline | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1610 (MN). |
1611 | The Tempest | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1611 (MN). |
1611-1613 | Henry VIII | Aesop version Hylton version | Probably written in 1611 (MN). The firing of a canon during one of the first performances of this play, on 29 June 1613, started the fire that burned the Globe Theatre to the ground (JH). |
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Martin Noble Last Update: 28 February 1998 |