My Shakespeare Plays

My visit to Stratford-Upon-Avon in September to see the RSC production of Coriolanus was the penultimate play to see from Shakespeare's First Folio. There are 36 in all. I actually didn't start keeping the tickets until 1988 and I had seen a few before then. So this is the list so far in chronological order. It does, however, include Pericles and Two Noble Kinsmen that do not appear in the First Folio.

So there is now only one more to see: Henry VIII (listed by the RSC to be performed in due course). Edward III isn't in the First Folio or in my book of Complete Works, nor in my father's The Works of William Shakespeare dated 1930. It is not on the schedule of all the Shakespeare plays that the RSC announced in 2013. It may have been written by someone else entirely and hardly ever performed. The last time was in 2002 at the Gielgud Theatre.

With regard to Henry VIII, the authorship of the play is in some doubt. John Fletcher may have written some lines. But it was included in the first folio of 1623 so is on my list to see.

The Merchant of Venice   28th May 1988        The Barbican Theatre, London
                                            20th August 2015    Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

Hamlet   22nd October 1988   The Phoenix Theatre, London
                8th March 1993        The Barbican Theatre, London

Twelfth Night    13th April 1991          The Playhouse Theatre, London
                            30th October 2014     Watford Palace Theatre

Richard 11     15th January 2000        Royal Shakespeare Theatre,  Stratford (The Other Place)
                        7th January 2016         The Barbican Theatre, London

Henry IV Part 1     18th July 2000     Royal Shakespeare Theatre,  Stratford 

Henry IV Part 11   9th August 2000   Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

Henry V          12th September 2000    Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

Henry VI Part 1     30th December 2000   The Swan Theatre, Stratford

Henry VI Part 11   30th December 2000   The Swan Theatre, Stratford

Henry VI Part 111  30th December 2000   The Swan Theatre, Stratford

Richard 111         24th May 2001   The Young Vic, London

Julius Caesar      5th September 2001      Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
                             10th August 2017          Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

The Tempest       28th January 2003       The Old Vic, London
                             5th August 1989          The Barbican Theatre, London

Titus Andronicus      8th October 2003     Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

Romeo and Juliet      25th May 2004        Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

Comedy of Errors     4th October 2005    Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

King Lear           6th December 2007        New London Theatre
                             (Also in 1963 - Aldwych Theatre, London)   

Love's Labour's Lost    13th November 2008    Rose Theatre, Kingston-Upon-Thames

Taming of the Shrew     10th July 2008     Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford   

Othello          26th February 2009     Oxford Playhouse

The Winter's Tale         30th Jun 2009     Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford
                                        2nd March 2017    Oxford Playhouse

Troilus and Cressida     26th August 2009       The Globe Theatre, London

Measure for Measure    8th April 2010     The Almeida, London

Antony and Cleopatra      19th August 2010    Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

Merry Wives of Windsor    17th November 2010     Milton Keynes Theatre

All's Well That Ends Well    19th July 2011       The Globe Theatre, London

Macbeth         24th August 2011        Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

Timon of Athens      14th August 2012       The National Theatre, London (Olivier Theatre)

King John       5th September 2012      The Swan Theatre, Stratford

Two Gentlemen of Verona        15th April 2013     Bristol Tobacco Factory

As You Like It     21st August 2013      The Swan Theatre, Stratford

A Midsummer Night's Dream          11th September 2014     Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury

Much Ado About Nothing      20th October 2014      Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

Pericles             14th April 2016     The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London

Cymbeline           27th July 2016     The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

Two Noble Kinsmen         21st September 2016   Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford

Coriolanus        28th September 2017     Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford