List of Shakespeare's works

This article is about standardized titles of Shakespeare's works. For related articles, please see William Shakespeare's works (disambiguation).

This table lists various standard forms of the titles of Shakespeare's works.

Folger Editions	Hamnet*	Cat. vol. no.**	Cat. abbrev.***
All's Well That Ends Well	All's well that ends well	1	AllsWell
Antony and Cleopatra	Antony and Cleopatra	2	Ant.
As You Like It	As you like it	3	AYLI
The Comedy of Errors	Comedy of errors	4	Com.Err.
Coriolanus	Coriolanus	5	Cor.
Cymbeline	Cymbeline	6	Cymb.
Hamlet	Hamlet	7	Ham.
Julius Caesar	Julius Caesar	8	Jul.Caes.
Henry IV, Part 1	King Henry IV. Part 1	9	1Hen.IV
Henry IV, Part 2	King Henry IV. Part 2	10	2Hen.IV
Henry V	Henry V	11	Hen.V
Henry VI, Part 1	King Henry VI. Part 1	12	1Hen.VI
Henry VI, Part 2	King Henry VI. Part 2	13	2Hen.VI
Henry VI, Part 3	King Henry VI. Part 3	14	3Hen.VI
Henry VIII	King Henry VIII	15	Hen.VIII
King John	King John	16	John
King Lear	King Lear	17	Lear
Richard II	King Richard II	18	Rich.II
Richard III	King Richard III	19	Rich.III
Love's Labor's Lost	Love's labour's lost	20	L.L.L.
Macbeth	Macbeth	21	Mac.
Measure for Measure	Measure for measure	22	Meas.
The Merchant of Venice	Merchant of Venice	23	Merch.
The Merry Wives of Windsor	Merry wives of Windsor	24	M.W.
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Midsummer night's dream	25	M.N.D.
Much Ado About Nothing	Much ado about nothing	26	Mu.Ad.
Othello	Othello	27	Oth.
Pericles	Pericles	28	Per.
Romeo and Juliet	Romeo and Juliet	29	Rom.
The Taming of the Shrew	Taming of the shrew	30	Shrew
The Tempest	Tempest	31	Temp.
Timon of Athens	Timon of Athens	32	Tim.
Titus Andronicus	Titus Andronicus	33	Tit.
Troilus and Cressida	Troilus and Cressida	34	Troil.
Twelfth Night	Twelfth night	35	T.N.
Two Gentlemen of Verona	Two gentlemen of Verona	36	2Gent.
The Winter's Tale	Winter's tale	37	Wint.T.
	Poems	38	Poems
	Sonnets	39	Sonnets
Two Noble Kinsmen	Two noble kinsmen	40	2 Nob.

* These forms come from the Library of Congress Authorities, so are the same across all American library collections.
** For call numbers created by Folger catalogers when individual volumes in sets of Shakespeare's collected works weren't numbered by the publisher.
*** For "PROMPT" call numbers created by Folger catalogers.

Standard Shortened Forms of Shakespeare's Play Titles

All’s Well That Ends Well	All’s Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors	Comedy
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part 1	1 Henry IV
Henry IV, Part 2	2 Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1	1 Henry VI
Henry VI, Part 2	2 Henry VI
Henry VI, Part 2	3 Henry VI
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear	Lear
Love’s Labor’s Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure	Measure
The Merchant of Venice	Merchant
The Merry Wives of Windsor	Wives
A Midsummer Night’s Dream	Dream
Much Ado About Nothing	Much Ado
Othello
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew	Shrew
The Tempest	Tempest
Titus Andronicus	Titus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona	Two Gentlemen
Two Noble Kinsmen	Kinsmen
The Winter’s Tale	Winter’s Tale