List of Comedies By William Shakespeare
The plays are here according to the order in which they are given in the First Folio of 1623. Plays marked with an asterisk (*) are now commonly referred to as the 'romances'. Plays marked with two asterisks (**) are sometimes referred to as the 'problem plays'.
- All's Well That Ends Well**
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Measure for Measure**
- The Merchant of Venice**
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre* (not included in the First Folio)
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest*
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Two Noble Kinsmen* (not included in the First Folio)
- The Winter's Tale*
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