William Shakespeare is one of the most famous and prolific writers in the history of English. His plays include perennial classics like "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "Macbeth," "The Tempest," "Julius Caesar," and "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and he coined many now-common expressions and words. Here is an overview of Shakespeare's impressive legacy.

Tragedies
Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Timon of Athens, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus

Comedies
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well that Ends Well, Pericles Prince of Tyre, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest

Histories
Richard III, Richard II, King John, Henry VIII, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V

Poetry
The Sonnets, A Lover's Complaint, The Rape of Lucrece, Venus and Adonis, Funeral Elegy by W.S.

Popular expressions
Bated breath (The Merchant of Venice)
To be-all and the end-all (Macbeth)
To beggar description (Antony and Cleopatra)
We have seen better days (As You Like It)
A blinking idiot (The Merchant of Venice)
Brave new world (The Tempest)
Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet)
Cruel to be kind (Hamlet)
A dish fit for the Gods (Julius Caesar)
He hath eaten me out of house and home (Henry IV Part 2)
Foregone conclusion (Othello)
Laid on with a trowel (As You Like It)
Neither rhyme nor reason (The Comedy of Errors)
Short shrift (Richard III)
Sterner stuff (Julius Caesar)
Too much of a good thing (As You Like It)
A tower of strength (Richard III)
Wild-goose chase (Romeo and Juliet)