William Shakespeare Plays
William Shakespeare wrote approximately 39 plays. It is believed that there were several plays that he did not write completely alone.
Many of his plays were made into screen adaptations. See a complete list here.
Many would consider all of his play’s masterpieces and trying to come up with a top 10 list is of course objective. But here at Shakespearesonnets.com, we thought it would be fun to have a go at it. Here are our picks for the top 10 Shakespeare plays and why we chose them.
We can put his plays into three categories. Comedies, histories, and tragedies.
Below is a list plays by category
Comedies
All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter’s Tale
Tragedies
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Histories
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III