Date Written Date Range First Published

Shakespeare’s plays

(conjectures of the best editors) (composition / performance)

Timon of Athens 1606 1598 - ? 1623

Pericles Prince of Tyre 1607 1598 - 1608 1609

Coriolanus 1608 1598 - ? 1623

Cymbeline 1609 1598 - 1611 1623

A Winter's Tale 1610 1598 - 1611 1623

The Tempest 1611 1610 - 1611 1623

Henry VIII 1613 1612 - 1613 1623

Time, as Chorus

Polixenes, King of BohemiaFlorizel, his sonArchidamus, a Bohemian LordAn Old Shepherd, reputed father of PerditaClown, his sonServant to the Old ShepherdAutolycus, a rogueMopsa, shepherdess.Dorcas, shepherdess.

Leontes, King of SiciliaMamillius, his sonHermione, Queen to LeontesPerdita, daughter to Leontes and HermionePaulina, wife to AntigonusEmilia, a lady attending on the QueenOther Ladies, attending on the QueenCamillo, Sicilian LordAntigonus, Sicilian LordCleomenes, Sicilian LordDion, Sicilian LordOther Sicilian LordsSicilian GentlemenOfficers of a Court of JudicatureGaolerA Mariner

1) POLIXENES su FLORIZEL (1.2, 167-169; T555)He makes a July's day short as December,And with his varying childness cures in meThoughts that would thick my blood.

2) MAMILLUS alla madre HERMIONE (2.1, 25-26; T583)A sad tale's best for winter: I have oneOf sprites and goblins.

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3) AUTOLYCUS singing (4.3,1-12; T659)

When daffodils begin to peer,With heigh! the doxy over the dale,Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,Are summer songs for me and my aunts,While we lie tumbling in the hay.

1) LEONTES a MAMILLUS (1.2,186-189; T557)

Go, play, boy, play: thy mother plays, and IPlay too, but so disgraced a part, whose issueWill hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour Will be my knell.

2) PAULINA a EMILIA (2.2,29-35; T601)

I dare be swornThese dangerous unsafe lunes i' th’king,beshrew them!He must be told on't, and he shall: the officeBecomes a woman best; I'll take't upon me:If I prove honey-mouth'd let my tongue blisterAnd never to my red-look'd anger beThe trumpet any more.

3) LEONTES (2.3, 39-41; T607)What noise there, ho?

PAULINA No noise, my lord; but needful conferenceAbout some gossips for your highness.

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1) CLOWN a AUTOLYCUS (4.3,39-45; T663)what will this sister of mine do with rice? But my fatherhath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays iton. She hath made me four and twenty nose-gays forthe shearers, three-man-song-men all, and very goodones; but they are most of them means and bases; butone puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms tohorn-pipes.

2) FLORIZEL a CAMILLO (4.4,522-525; T709)Very nobly

Have you deserved: it is my father's musicTo speak your deeds, not little of his careTo have them recompensed as thought on.

3) PAULINA alla statua di HERMIONE (5.4,98 segg.; T771)Music, awake her; strike! (music) 'Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach;Strike all that look upon with marvel. […]

You perceive she stirs:Start not; her actions shall be holy asYou hear my spell is lawful: do not shun herUntil you see her die again; for thenYou kill her double.

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