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)
Nouns
accused
addiction
alligator
amazement
anchovies
assassination
backing
bandit
bedroom
bump
buzzers
courtship
critic
dauntless
dawn
design
dickens
discontent
embrace
employer
engagements
excitements
exposure
eyeball
fixture
futurity
glow
gust
hint
immediacy
investments
kickshaws
leapfrog
luggage
manager
mimic
misgiving
mountaineer
ode
outbreak
pageantry
pedant
perusal
questioning
reinforcement
retirement
roadway
rumination
savagery
scuffles
shudders
switch
tardiness
transcendence
urging
watchdog
wormhole
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Verbs
besmirch
bet
blanket
cake
cater
champion
compromise
cow
denote
deracinate
dialogue
dislocate
divest
drug
dwindle
elbow
enmesh
film
forward
gossip
grovel
hobnob
humour
hurry
impedes
jet
jig
label
lapse
lower
misquote
negotiate
numb
pander
partner
petition
puke
rant
reword
secure
submerge
swagger
torture
unclog
Adjectives
aerial
auspicious
baseless
beached
bloodstained
blushing
circumstantial
consanguineous
deafening
disgraceful
domineering
enrapt
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epileptic
equivocal
eventful
fashionable
foregone
frugal
generous
gloomy
gnarled
hush
inaudible
invulnerable
jaded
juiced
lackluster
laughable
lonely
lustrous
madcap
majestic
marketable
monumental
nervy
noiseless
oscene
olympian
premeditated
promethean
quarrelsome
radiance
rancorous
reclusive
remorseless
rival
sacrificial
sanctimonious
softhearted
splitting
stealthy
traditional
tranquil
unmitigated
unreal
varied
vaulting
viewless
widowed
worthless
yelping
Adverbs
importantly
instinctively
obsequiously
threateningly
tightly
trippingly
unaware
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