How many plays did Shakespeare write?
FROM: http://shakespeare.about.com/od/studentr… The general consensus is that Shakespeare wrote thirty-seven plays (see list below). However, no one can know for certain because of the inexact documentation at the time the plays were first being organized and published. If we include The Two Noble Kinsmen and two lost plays attributed to Shakespeare, Cardenio and Love’s Labour’s Won, then we could say he wrote, either alone or in collaboration, forty plays. Moreover, in the last few years many critics have begun to reassess a play called Edward III, currently grouped with a collection of eleven other plays known as the Shakespeare Apocrypha. Edward III bears striking similarities to Shakespeare’s early histories. Another play, Sir Thomas More has also been under debate. Handwriting analysis has led scholars to believe that Shakespeare revised parts of Sir Thomas More, but, like Edward III
Shakespeare is thought to have written at least 37 plays. In the First Folio edition of his plays; published by two of his colleagues in 1623, only seven years after he died, 35 plays are listed. ‘Pericles’ and ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’, which are absent from the list, are generally agreed to be by Shakespeare. A lost play, ‘Cardenio’, is sometimes ascribed to him and he also contributed some scenes to ‘Sir Thomas More’.
William Shakespeare is known as the father of English literature who wrote more than 37 plays, 154 sonnets, 2 narrative poems and two “lost plays”. First Folio published his 36 plays except ‘Cardenio’ and ‘Loves Labours Won’ (that were supposed to be lost) in 1623. Lets have a glance over the plays he composed.
