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and = Q. Ed = that/as
    128.14 thy fingers = Ed. Q = their fingers. MS = youre fingers thy lips = Q. MS = youre lipes
    129.11 and proved a = Ed. Q = and proud and
    132.2 torment = Q. Ed = torments 6 the east = Ed. Q = th’East
    136.14 lovest = Q. Ed = lov’st
    138.12 to have = O1. Q = t’haue
    140.13 belied = Ed. Q = be lyde
    144.6 side = O1. Q = sight 9 fiend
spelled
finde
in
Q
    145.2, 9, 13 ‘I hate’
speechmarks
= Ed 14 ‘not you’
speechmarks
= Ed.
    146.2 [] these = Ed. Q = My sinful earth.
Alternate
Ed = Fool’d by those/Starv’d by the/Hemmed with these/Gull’d by these/Feeding these/Spoiled by these/Seiged by these
    148.8 ‘no’
speechmarks
= Ed. Q = all mens: no
    151.14 ‘love’
speechmarks
= Ed
    152.14 so = Ed. Q = fo
    153.8 strange = Q
(
strang
)
. Ed = strong 14 eyes = Ed. Q = eye
“A LOVER’S COMPLAINT”
    Q = Quarto text of 1609
    Ed = a correction introduced by a later editor
    7 sorrow’s = Ed. Q = sorrowes 14 lattice = Ed. Q = lettice 37 beaded = Ed. Q = bedded 51 gave = Q. Ed = ’gan 80 O, one = Q (O one). Ed = Of one 102 May = Q. Ed = March 118 Came = Ed. Q = Can 135 in it put = Q. Ed = put it in 161 wits = Q. Ed = wills 182 woo = Ed. Q = vovv 198 pallid = Q (palyd). Ed = pald 204 hair = Ed. Q = heir 228 Hallowed = Ed. Q = Hollowed 241 Paling = Ed. Q = Playing 251 immured = Ed. Q = enur’d 252 procured = Ed. Q = procure 260 nun = Ed. Q = Sunne 261 ay = Ed. Q = I 270 kindred, fame = Ed. Q = kindred fame 271 peace = Q. Ed = proof 293 O = Ed. Q = Or 305 swooning = Ed. Q = sounding 308 swoon = Ed. Q = sound

SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS: A CHRONOLOGY
1589–91
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Arden of Faversham
(possible part authorship)
1589–92
The Taming of the Shrew
1589–92
?
Edward the Third
(possible part authorship)
1591
The Second Part of Henry the Sixth
, originally called
The First Part of the Contention betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster
(element of co-authorship possible)
1591
The Third Part of Henry the Sixth
, originally called
The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York
(element of co-authorship probable)
1591–92
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1591–92 perhaps revised 1594
The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
(probably co-written with, or revising an earlier version by, George Peele)
1592
The First Part of Henry the Sixth
, probably with Thomas Nashe and others
1592/94
King Richard the Third
1593
Venus and Adonis
(poem)
1593–94
The Rape of Lucrece
(poem)
1593–1608
Sonnets
(154 poems, published 1609 with “A Lover’s Complaint,” a poem of disputed authorship)
1592–94/1600–03
Sir Thomas More
(a single scene for a play originally by Anthony Munday, with other revisions by Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, and Thomas Heywood)
1594
The Comedy of Errors
1595
Love
’
s Labour
’
s Lost
1595–97
Love
’
s Labour
’
s Won
(a lost play, unless the original title for another comedy)
1595–96
A Midsummer Night
’
s Dream
1595–96
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
1595–96
King Richard the Second
1595–97
The Life and Death of King John
(possibly earlier)
1596–97
The Merchant of Venice
1596–97
The First Part of Henry the Fourth
1597–98
The Second Part of Henry the Fourth
1598
Much Ado about Nothing
1598–99
The Passionate Pilgrim
(20 poems, some not by Shakespeare)
1599
The Life of Henry the Fifth
1599
“To the Queen” (epilogue for a court performance)
1599
As You Like It
1599
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
1600–01
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
(perhaps revising an earlier version)
1600–01
The Merry Wives of Windsor
(perhaps revising version of 1597–99)
1601
“Let the Bird of Loudest Lay” (poem, known since 1807 as “The Phoenix and Turtle” (turtledove))
1601
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1601–02
The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida
1604
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
1604
Measure for Measure
1605
All
’
s Well that Ends Well
1605
The Life of Timon of Athens
, with Thomas Middleton
1605–06
The Tragedy of King Lear
1605–08
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