works of William Shakespeare

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body of work literary corpus

The works of William Shakespeare are a foundational body of English literature whose plays and poems profoundly shaped the development of drama, poetry, and the English language.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Shakespearean canon	16
works of William Shakespeare canonical	2
Shakespeare plays	1
Shakespeare's poems	1
Shakespearean history plays	1
Shakespearean plays	1
Shakespearean theatrical canon	1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	body of work ⓘ literary corpus ⓘ
approximateNumberOfPlays	about 39 ⓘ
approximateNumberOfSonnets	154 ⓘ
canonicalStatus	Western literary canon ⓘ
creator	William Shakespeare ⓘ
genre	drama ⓘ poetry ⓘ
includesWork	A Lover's Complaint ⓘ A Midsummer Night's Dream ⓘ All’s Well That Ends Well ⓘ surface form: All's Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra ⓘ As You Like It ⓘ Coriolanus ⓘ Cymbeline ⓘ Hamlet ⓘ Henry IV, Part 1 ⓘ Henry IV, Part 2 ⓘ Henry V (play) ⓘ surface form: Henry V Henry VI, Part 1 ⓘ Henry VI, Part 2 ⓘ Henry VI, Part 3 ⓘ Julius Caesar ⓘ King John of England ⓘ surface form: King John King Lear ⓘ Love's Labour's Lost ⓘ Macbeth ⓘ Measure for Measure ⓘ Much Ado About Nothing ⓘ Othello (play) ⓘ surface form: Othello Pericles, Prince of Tyre ⓘ Richard III of England ⓘ surface form: Richard III Romeo and Juliet ⓘ Sonnets ⓘ The Comedy of Errors ⓘ The Merchant of Venice ⓘ The Merry Wives of Windsor ⓘ The Phoenix and the Turtle ⓘ The Rape of Lucrece ⓘ The Taming of the Shrew ⓘ The Tempest ⓘ The Winter's Tale ⓘ Timon of Athens ⓘ Titus Andronicus ⓘ Troilus and Cressida ⓘ Twelfth Night ⓘ The Two Gentlemen of Verona ⓘ surface form: Two Gentlemen of Verona Venus and Adonis ⓘ
influenced	English drama ⓘ English language ⓘ English poetry ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
period	English Renaissance ⓘ surface form: Elizabethan era Stuart period ⓘ surface form: Jacobean era

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Early Modern English → exemplifiedBy → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

Desdemona (character) → fictionalUniverse → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Shakespearean canon

The Merry Wives of Windsor → partOf → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

this entity surface form: Shakespearean canon

Bardolph → fictionalUniverse → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

this entity surface form: Shakespearean history plays

Ariel → partOf → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

this entity surface form: Shakespearean canon

Hamlet (stage performances) → isMajorPartOf → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

this entity surface form: Shakespearean theatrical canon

Life of William Shakespeare → isAbout → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

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Hamlet → includedIn → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

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The Taming of the Shrew → includedIn → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

this entity surface form: Shakespearean canon

The Yale Shakespeare → basedOn → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

Timon of Athens → literaryCanon → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Shakespearean canon

Cedric Hardwicke → performedIn → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

this entity surface form: Shakespearean plays

The Two Gentlemen of Verona → partOf → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

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Henriad → partOf → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

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Sir Hugh Evans → literaryCanon → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

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Elsinore Castle → partOfFictionalUniverse → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

this entity surface form: Shakespearean canon

Henry Condell → sourceOfInformationAbout → works of William Shakespeare ⓘ

this entity surface form: Shakespearean canon