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What did William Shakespeare write?

William Shakespeare wrote an impressive body of work, including:

Plays:

* Comedies:

* A Midsummer Night's Dream

* As You Like It

* The Merchant of Venice

* Twelfth Night

* Much Ado About Nothing

* The Taming of the Shrew

* The Comedy of Errors

* Love's Labour's Lost

* All's Well That Ends Well

* Measure for Measure

* The Merry Wives of Windsor

* Tragedies:

* Hamlet

* Romeo and Juliet

* Macbeth

* King Lear

* Othello

* Antony and Cleopatra

* Julius Caesar

* Coriolanus

* Titus Andronicus

* Histories:

* Richard III

* Henry IV, Part 1 & 2

* Henry V

* Richard II

* Henry VI, Part 1, 2, & 3

* King John

* Henry VIII

* Problem Plays:

* Troilus and Cressida

* All's Well That Ends Well

* Measure for Measure

* Timon of Athens

Poetry:

* Sonnets: 154 sonnets

* Long Poems:

* Venus and Adonis

* The Rape of Lucrece

* A Lover's Complaint

Other:

* The Phoenix and the Turtle (a short poem)

It's important to note that some scholars debate the authorship of certain works attributed to Shakespeare. However, the above list represents the most widely accepted canon of his writings.

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