The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the life and legacy of William Shakespeare, an English poet, playwright, and actor who lived during the 17th century. He is 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".

Works

Shakespeare bibliography Chronology of Shakespeare's plays William Shakespeare's collaborations Complete Works of Shakespeare Early texts of Shakespeare's works Shakespeare's late romances Shakespeare plays in quarto Shakespearean problem play Translations of works by William Shakespeare Shakespearean characters List of Shakespearean characters (A–K) List of Shakespearean characters (L–Z) List of historical figures dramatised by Shakespeare Women in Shakespeare's works

Plays

Tragedies

Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida

Comedies

All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen The Winter's Tale

Histories

The Life and Death of King John Edward III (play) Richard II (play) Henry IV, Part 1 Henry IV, Part 2 Henry V (play) Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI, Part 3 Richard III (play) Henry VIII (play)

Poetry Shakespeare's sonnets – 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 • 53 • 54 • 55 • 56 • 57 • 58 • 59 • 60 • 61 • 62 • 63 • 64 • 65 • 66 • 67 • 68 • 69 • 70 • 71 • 72 • 73 • 74 • 75 • 76 • 77 • 78 • 79 • 80 • 81 • 82 • 83 • 84 • 85 • 86 • 87 • 88 • 89 • 90 • 91 • 92 • 93 • 94 • 95 • 96 • 97 • 98 • 99 • 100 • 101 • 102 • 103 • 104 • 105 • 106 • 107 • 108 • 109 • 110 • 111 • 112 • 113 • 114 • 115 • 116 • 117 • 118 • 119 • 120 • 121 • 122 • 123 • 124 • 125 • 126 • 127 • 128 • 129 • 130 • 131 • 132 • 133 • 134 • 135 • 136 • 137 • 138 • 139 • 140 • 141 • 142 • 143 • 144 • 145 • 146 • 147 • 148 • 149 • 150 • 151 • 152 • 153 • 154 A Lover's Complaint Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece The Phoenix and the Turtle

Apocrypha

Plays Sir Thomas More The History of Cardenio (lost) Love's Labour's Won (lost) The Birth of Merlin Locrine The London Prodigal The Puritan The Second Maiden's Tragedy Double Falsehood Thomas of Woodstock Sir John Oldcastle Thomas Lord Cromwell A Yorkshire Tragedy Fair Em Mucedorus The Merry Devil of Edmonton Arden of Faversham Edmund Ironside Vortigern and Rowena Ur-Hamlet Ireland Shakespeare forgeries

Poetry A Funeral Elegy The Passionate Pilgrim To the Queen

Analyses Shakespeare's editors Shakespeare attribution studies Shakespeare authorship question Shakespeare's writing style Timeline of Shakespeare criticism

Life

Shakespeare's Birthplace Shakespeare garden Shakespeare's Globe Shakespeare's handwriting Shakespeare in performance Portraits of Shakespeare Religious views of William Shakespeare Shakespeare's reputation Sexuality of William Shakespeare Spelling of Shakespeare's name Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare's will

Family of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare family Richard Shakespeare – grandfather John Shakespeare – father Mary Shakespeare (née Arden) – mother Edmund Shakespeare – brother Gilbert Shakespeare – brother Joan Hart (née Shakespeare) – sister Anne Hathaway – wife Hamnet Shakespeare – son Judith Quiney (née Shakespeare) – daughter Thomas Quiney – son-in-law Susanna Hall (née Shakespeare) – daughter John Hall – son-in-law Elizabeth Bernard (née Hall, formerly Nash) – granddaughter Shakespeare baronets Geoffrey Shakespeare – descendant of Richard Shakespeare Tom Shakespeare – grandson of Geoffrey Shakespeare

Associated people Robert Armin Matteo Bandello Cuthbert Burbage Richard Burbage Robert Chester (poet) Henry Condell The Dark Lady Leonard Digges (writer) Fair Youth Richard Field (printer) John Fletcher (playwright) Archibald Dennis Flower Samuel Gilburne John Heminges Ben Jonson William Kempe Edward Knight (King's Men) Emilia Lanier John Manningham Mr W.H. Augustine Phillips Rival Poet Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton Nahum Tate Anne Whateley George Wilkins Henry Willobie

Legacy Shakespeare's influence – in addition to his works, Shakespeare's legacy includes the ongoing performance of his plays, and his influence upon culture and the arts, extending from theatre and literature to present-day movies and the English language itself. Adaptations of works by William Shakespeare List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases Cultural references to Hamlet Cultural references to Ophelia Cultural references to Othello

Memorials and monuments Memorials to William Shakespeare Shakespeare's funerary monument Statue of William Shakespeare, Leicester Square Shakespeare's Way

Shakespearean phrases List of idioms attributed to Shakespeare Phrases from Hamlet in common English "All that glitters is not gold" "All the world's a stage" "All's Well That Ends Well" "Band of brothers" "Beast with two backs" "Between you and I" "Brave new world" "By the pricking of my thumbs" "The dogs of war" "Et tu, Brute?" "Even a worm will turn" "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" "Hoist with his own petard" "Honorificabilitudinitatibus" "Ides of March" "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" "Let's kill all the lawyers" "Mortal coil" "Much Ado About Nothing" "Once more unto the breach" "The quality of mercy" "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" "Salad days" "Star-crossed" "There's the rub" "Thy name is" "To be, or not to be" "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" "What a piece of work is a man" "What's past is prologue" "Winter of Discontent"

Shakespearean theatre Shakespeare festivals Shakespeare in the Park festivals List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations BBC Television Shakespeare Shakespeare: The Animated Tales ShakespeaRe-Told Shakespearean theatres Shakespeare's Globe Centres :Category:Shakespearean theatre companies Shakespeare Theatre Association

Works about Shakespeare Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare Complete Works Timeline of Shakespeare criticism The Herbal Bed Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life The Quest for Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare's Kings Shakespeare's Politics Shakespeare: The World as Stage William Shakespeare

Fictional works about Shakespeare Shakespeare in Love Upstart Crow

See also Outline of literature Outline of poetry Outline of theatre

External links

Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada "All Shakespeare's works", Folger Shakespeare Library Open Source Shakespeare complete works, with search engine and concordance First Four Folios at Miami University Library, digital collection The Shakespeare Quartos Archive Shakespeare's sonnets, poems, and texts at Poets.org Shakespeare's Words the online version of the best-selling glossary and language companion Shakespeare and Music Shakespeare's Will from The National Archives

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Discovering Literature: Shakespeare at the British Library