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What was in Shakespeare?

William Shakespeare's work includes sonnets, plays, and long narrative poems. Some titles include:

_Sonnets:_

_• Sonnet 18 - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

• Sonnet 29 - "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes."

• Sonnet 55 - "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments ."_

_Plays:_

* _Romeo and Juliet_ (tragedy, c. 1595)_

* _Julius Caesar_ (tragedy, c. 1599)_

* _Hamlet_ (tragedy, c. 1603)_

* _Othello_ (tragedy, c. 1604)_

* _King Lear_ (tragedy, c. 1605–1606)_

* _Macbeth_ (tragedy, c. 1606)_

* _Anthony and Cleopatra_ (tragedy, c. 1606–1607)_

* _Coriolanus_ (tragedy, c. 1607–1608)_

* _Timon of Athens_ (tragedy, c. 1607–1608)_

* _Cymbeline_ (romance, c. 1609–1610)_

* _The Tempest_ (romance, c. 1610–1611)_

_Long Narrative Poems:_

-_ Venus and Adonis_ (1593)_

- _The Rape of Lucrece_ (1594)_

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