NTLEMEN OF VERONA (1591)--_The Shepherdess Felismena_ in
George of Montmayor's _Diana_.
COMEDY OF ERRORS (1591)--_Menaechmi_ of Plautus and earlier play.
ROMEO AND JULIET (1591)--Italian romance in Painter's _Palace of
Pleasure_ and Broke's _Romeus and Juliet_.
HENRY VI. 1, 2, and 3 (1592)--Retouched old plays, probably with Marlowe.
RICHARD III. (1592-3)--Holinshed's _Chronicle_.
RICHARD II. (1593-4?)-- do.
TITUS ANDRONICUS (1594)--Probably chiefly by Kyd, retouched.
KING JOHN (1594)--Old play retouched.

SECOND PERIOD--1596-1601-2
MERCHANT OF VENICE (1594)--Italian novels, _Gesta Romanorum_, and
earlier plays.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (1595)--North's _Plutarch_, Chaucer, Ovid.
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (1595)--Painter's _Palace of Pleasure_.
TAMING OF THE SHREW (1596?)--Old play retouched, and _Supposes_ of
G. Gascoigne, Shakespeare's in part only.
HENRY IV. 1 and 2 (1597?)--Holinshed and earlier play.
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (1597-8)--Italian novels (?).
HENRY V. (1599).
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1599)--Partly from Italian.
AS YOU LIKE IT (1599)--Lodge's _Rosalynde, Euphues' Golden Legacie_.
TWELFTH NIGHT (1599)--B. Riche's _Apolonius and Silla_.

THIRD PERIOD--1602-1608
JULIUS CAESAR (1601)--North's _Plutarch_.
HAMLET (1601-2)--Belleforest's _Histoires Tragiques_.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (1603?)--Probably Chaucer's _Troilus and
Cresseide_ and Chapman's _Homer_.
OTHELLO (1604)--Cinthio's _Hecatommithi_.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE (1604?)--Cinthio's _Epithia_.
MACBETH (1605-6?)--Holinshed.
LEAR (1606)-- do.
TIMON OF ATHENS (1607?)--_Palace of Pleasure_ and Plutarch written
with G. Wilkins (?) and W. Rowley (?).
PERICLES (1607-8)--Gower's _Confessio Amantis_, with G. Wilkins (?).
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (1608)--North's _Plutarch_.
CORIOLANUS (1608)-- do.

FOURTH PERIOD--1608-1613
CYMBELINE (1610-11?)--Holinshed and _Ginevra_ in Boccaccio's
_Decamerone_.
WINTER'S TALE (1610-11)--Green's _Dorastus and Fawnia_.
TEMPEST (1611?)--S. Jourdain's _Discovery of the Bermudas_.
HENRY VIII. (1612-13)--Draft by S. completed by Fletcher and
perhaps Massinger.

POEMS
VENUS AND ADONIS (1593).
RAPE OF LUCRECE (1594).
SONNETS (1591-94?).

The evidence as to chronology is three-fold--(1) External, such as
entries in registers of Stationers' Company, contemporary references, or
details as to the comp