Narrative and dramatic sources of Shakespeare

v. 1. Early comedies. Poems. Romeo and Juliet.

v. 2. The comedies, 1597-1603.

v. 3. Earlier English history plays: Henry VI. Richard III. Richard II.

v. 4. Later English history plays: King John. Henry IV. Henry V. Henry VIII.

v. 5. The Roman plays: Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Coriolanus.

v. 6. Other "classical" plays: Titus Andronicus. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Pericles. Prince of Tyre.

v. 7. Major tragedies: Hamlet. Othello. King Lear. Macbeth.

v. 8. Romances: Cymbeline, The winter's tale of the tempest.