What was William shakespeares first play?

Answer 1

Nobody is really sure which is Shakespeare's first play. The only thing we can say for sure is that it was written at some time before his second play was written. Candidates include The Comedy of Errors (which has a form and plot borrowed from classical sources which he never used again), the first part of Henry VI, the second part of Henry VI, Love's Labour's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Titus Andronicus.

The first reference to Shakespeare in the context of theatre is by Robert Greene in 1592 and includes a reference to the Henry VI Part III line "a tyger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide" which makes the Henry VI plays the first ones we hear about from other people.

Lists of Shakespeare's plays in chronological order are not complete shots in the dark, as we have records of publication, and sometimes performance to help us guess when they were written. This is not an exact science, however. Shakespeare may well have written an even earlier play which was so bad it was chucked out, or extensively rewritten later on. He may have been a contributor to a play mostly written by an older, established playwright (this was how new playwrights got their feet wet mostly). Although we can say with reasonable certainty which plays were not Shakespeare's first, to try to name the one play which was first would have to be almost completely guesswork.

Answer 2

Nobody is really sure which is Shakespeare's first play. The only thing we can say for sure is that it was written at some time before his second play was written. Candidates include The Comedy of Errors (which has a form and plot borrowed from classical sources which he never used again), the first part of Henry VI, the second part of Henry VI, Love's Labour's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Titus Andronicus.

The first reference to Shakespeare in the context of theatre is by Robert Greene in 1592 and includes a reference to the Henry VI Part III line "a tyger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide" which makes the Henry VI plays the first ones we hear about from other people.

Lists of Shakespeare's plays in chronological order are not complete shots in the dark, as we have records of publication, and sometimes performance to help us guess when they were written. This is not an exact science, however. Shakespeare may well have written an even earlier play which was so bad it was chucked out, or extensively rewritten later on. He may have been a contributor to a play mostly written by an older, established playwright (this was how new playwrights got their feet wet mostly). Although we can say with reasonable certainty which plays were not Shakespeare's first, to try to name the one play which was first would have to be almost completely guesswork.

Answer 3

Nobody is really sure which is Shakespeare's first play. The only thing we can say for sure is that it was written at some time before his second play was written. Candidates include The Comedy of Errors (which has a form and plot borrowed from classical sources which he never used again), the first part of Henry VI, the second part of Henry VI, Love's Labour's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Titus Andronicus.

The first reference to Shakespeare in the context of theatre is by Robert Greene in 1592 and includes a reference to the Henry VI Part III line "a tyger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide" which makes the Henry VI plays the first ones we hear about from other people.

Lists of Shakespeare's plays in chronological order are not complete shots in the dark, as we have records of publication, and sometimes performance to help us guess when they were written. This is not an exact science, however. Shakespeare may well have written an even earlier play which was so bad it was chucked out, or extensively rewritten later on. He may have been a contributor to a play mostly written by an older, established playwright (this was how new playwrights got their feet wet mostly). Although we can say with reasonable certainty which plays were not Shakespeare's first, to try to name the one play which was first would have to be almost completely guesswork.

Answer 4

Nobody is really sure which is Shakespeare's first play. The only thing we can say for sure is that it was written at some time before his second play was written. Candidates include The Comedy of Errors (which has a form and plot borrowed from classical sources which he never used again), the first part of Henry VI, the second part of Henry VI, Love's Labour's Lost, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Titus Andronicus.

The first reference to Shakespeare in the context of theatre is by Robert Greene in 1592 and includes a reference to the Henry VI Part III line "a tyger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide" which makes the Henry VI plays the first ones we hear about from other people.

Lists of Shakespeare's plays in chronological order are not complete shots in the dark, as we have records of publication, and sometimes performance to help us guess when they were written. This is not an exact science, however. Shakespeare may well have written an even earlier play which was so bad it was chucked out, or extensively rewritten later on. He may have been a contributor to a play mostly written by an older, established playwright (this was how new playwrights got their feet wet mostly). Although we can say with reasonable certainty which plays were not Shakespeare's first, to try to name the one play which was first would have to be almost completely guesswork.