| Title | Year written | First publications | Performances | Authorship notes |
| Henry IV, Part 1 | Likely early to mid 1590s | First published in a 1598 quarto by Andrew Wise | Though 1 Henry IV was almost certainly in performance by 1597, the earliest recorded performance was on 6 March 1600, when it was acted at Court before the Flemish Ambassador. Other Court performances followed in 1612 and 1625. | |
| Henry IV, Part 2 | 1597–1599 | First published in a quarto in 1600 by Valentine Simms | Philip Henslowe's diary records a performance of a Henry VI on 3 March 1592, by the Lord Strange's Men. Thomas Nashe refers in 1592 to a popular play about Lord Talbot, seen by "ten thousand spectators at least" at separate times. | |
| Henry V | 1599 | Published in a "bad quarto" in 1600 by Thomas Millington and John Busby; reprinted in "bad" form in 1603 and 1619, it was published fully for the first time in the First Folio. | A tradition, impossible to verify, holds that Henry V was the first play performed at the new Globe Theatre in the spring of 1599; the Globe would have been the "wooden O" mentioned in the Prologue. In 1600 the first printed text states that the play had been performed "sundry times", though the first recorded performance was on 7 January 1605, at Court. | |
| Henry VI, Part 1 | 1588–1592 | First published in the First Folio | Philip Henslowe's diary records a performance of a Henry VI on 3 March 1592, by the Lord Strange's Men. Thomas Nashe refers in 1592 to a popular play about Lord Talbot, seen by "ten thousand spectators at least" at separate times. | There is stylistic evidence that Part 1 is not by Shakespeare alone, but co-written by a team with three or more unknown playwrights. |
| Henry VI, Part 2 | 1590–1591 | A version was published in 1594, and again in 1600 and 1619 ; the last as part of William Jaggrd's False Folio. | See notes for Henry VI, Part I above. Parts I and III of Henry VI are known to have been playing in 1592, and it is assumed part 2 was presented at the same times. | |
| Henry VI, Part 3 | 1590–1591 | A version was published in 1594, and again in 1600 and 1619 ; the last as part of William Jaggrd's False Folio. | Performed before 1592, when Robert Greene parodied one of the play's lines in his pamphlet A Groatsworth of Wit. See notes for Part II and I above. | |
| Henry VIII | | | A fire destroyed the Globe Theatre during a performance of this play on 29 June 1613, as recorded in several contemporary documents. While some modern scholars believe the play was relatively new. | Thought to be a collaboration between Shakespeare and John Fletcher, due to the style of the verse. Shakespeare is thought to have written Act I, scenes i and ii; II, ii and iv; III, ii, lines 1–203 ; V, i. |
| King John | 1595–1598 | | First known performance at Covent Garden Theatre on 26 February 1737 but doubtlessly performed as early as the 1590s. | |
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| Richard III | Around 1593. | First published in a quarto in 1597. | | |
| Edward III | 1592 or 1593 | Cuthbert Burby, quarto editions in 1596 and 1599. | | Generally considered a collaboration with John Fletcher, but there is still no agreement upon the collaborators. |
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