A cheat sheet for works of the Bard of Avon, with approximate years of each piece.
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Nobody knows Shakespeare's date of birth
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Shakespeare had seven siblings - Joan, Margaret, Gilbert, Joan II, Anne, Richard and Edmund
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Shakespeare married 26 year old Anne Hathaway when he was 18
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Shakespeare had three children - Hamnet, Susanna and Judith
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There are no living descendants of Shakespeare
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Shakespeare was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets
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Two plays, Love's Labour's Won and Cardenio, are known to have been lost to time, with as many as 20 more estimated to have been lost
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Richard II and King John are the only two plays written entirely in verse
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All's Well That Ends Well
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1604-1605
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As You Like It
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1599-1600
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The Comedy of Errors
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1594
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Love's Labour's Lost
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1594-1595
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Measure for Measure
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1603-1604
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The Merchant of Venice
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1596-1598
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
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1597-1598
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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1595
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Much Ado About Nothing
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1598-1599
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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1607
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The Taming of the Shrew
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1590-1594
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The Tempest
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1610-1611
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Twelfth Night
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1601
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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1589-1591
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
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1613
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The Winter's Tale
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1609-1610
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Shakespeare's sonnets
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Pre-1609
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Venus and Adonis
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1592-1593
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The Rape of Lucrece
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1594
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The Passionate Pilgrim
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1599
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The Phoenix and the Turtle
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1601
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A Lover's Complaint
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1609
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The Life and Death of King John
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1596
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Richard II
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1595
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Henry IV, Part 1
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1596-1597
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Henry IV, Part 2
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1596-1599
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Henry V
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1599
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Henry VI, Part 1
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1591
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Henry VI, Part 2
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1591
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Henry VI, Part 3
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1591
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Richard III
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1592
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Henry VIII
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1613
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Antony and Cleopatra
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1606-1607
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Coriolanus
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1605-1608
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Cymbeline
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1610-1611
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Hamlet
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1599-1602
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Julius Caesar
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1599
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King Lear
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1603-1606
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Macbeth
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1603-1607
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Othello
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1603
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Romeo and Juliet
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1591-1595
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Timon of Athens
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1605
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Titus Andronicus
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1588-1593
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Troilus and Cressida
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1602
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Phrase
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From
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Green-eyed monster
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Othello
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In a pickle
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The Tempest
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The world is your oyster
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The Merry Wives Of Windsor
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Catch a cold
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Cymbeline
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It's all Greek to me
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Julius Caesar
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Love is blind
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The Merchant Of Venice
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Wild goose chase
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Romeo and Juliet
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A heart of gold
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Henry V
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Break the ice
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The Taming Of The Shrew
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Laughing stock
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The Merry Wives Of Windsor
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Wear your heart on your sleeve
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Othello
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Dogs of war
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Julius Caesar
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Method to his madness
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Hamlet
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