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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS- Apprentice Plays: the 3 Henry VI plays (1590-92), Titus Andronicus (1593), The Comedy of Errors (1590), Richard III (1592-93), and The Taming of the Shrew (ca. 1594). Romantic Comedies: The Two Gentleman of Verona (1594), Love's Labours Lost (1594), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1596), The Merchant of Venice (1596-97), Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), As You Like It (1599-1600), and Twelfth Night (1599-1600). History Plays: Richard II (1595-96), Henry IV Parts I & II (1597-98), Henry V (1598-99), and King John (1596-97). Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet (1595-96), Julius Caesar (1599-1600), Hamlet (1600-01), Othello (1603-04), King Lear (1605-06), Macbeth (1606), and Antony and Cleopatra (1607). Problem Plays or Bitter Comedies: Troilus and Cressida (1602), All's Well That Ends Well (1602-04), and Measure for Measure (1604). Romances: Pericles (uncertain date), Cymbeline (1609), The Winter's Tale (1610), and The Tempest (1611). CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'S PLAYS- Tamburlaine the Great (1587-88), The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (1588-89), and The Jew of Malta (around 1590). BEN JONSON'S PLAYS- Every Man in His Humour (1598), a comedy, Cynthia's Revels (1600), a mythological satire, The Poetaster (1601), Volpone, or the Fox (1605), a satiric comedy, Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (1609), a comedy, The Alchemist (1610), a satire, Bartholomew Fair (1614), Sejanus (1603), a Roman tragedy, and Catiline (1611), a Roman tragedy.