Shakespeare born

Shakespeare comes to London

Shakespeare begins career as playwright with *The Comedy of Errors*

*Richard III* acted - Shakespeare

*Venus and Adonis* - Shakespeare

*Rape of Lucrece* - Shakespeare

*A Midsummer Night's Dream* acted - Shakespeare

*Romeo and Juliet* acted - Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Falstaff plays acted - Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry V; Merry Wives of Windsor.

*Merchant of Venice* acted - Shakespeare

Shakespeare's "joyous comedies": Much Ado about Nothing; As You Like It; Twelfth Night.

Julius Caesar acted - Shakespeare

Globe theater built: used by Shakespeare's company.

The Passionate Pilgrim - miscellany containing some of Shakespeare's poems.

Hamlet acted - Shakespeare

Shakespeare's "bitter comedies": Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure acted

Othello acted - Shakespeare

Macbeth and King Lear acted - Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatara acted - Shakespeare

Shakespeare's tragicomedies: Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest acted

Sonnets (written earlier) - Shakespeare

Shakespeare returns to Stratford

Shakespeare death