Among Shakespeare’s masterpieces, the most acclaimed nowadays is “Romeo and Juliet,” a tragic love story of two young people who are separated by their feuding families’ past, and “Hamlet,” the story of a Danish prince entangled in love, betrayal, and revenge, who learns of a family secret.

Shakespeare’s other works include:

• historical dramas dealing with events in English history - “King John,” “Henry IV,” “Henry VI,” “Henry VIII,” “Richard II,” and “Richard III.”;
• comedies: “Comedy of Errors,” “Taming of the Shrew,” “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” “As You Like It,” “Twelfth Night, or What You Will,” “Measure for Measure,” “The Winter’s Tale,” “The Tempest,” “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” “Cymbeline,” “Two Noble Kinsmen,” “All’s Well that Ends Well,”;
• tragedies: “Titus Andronicus,” “Julius Caesar,” “Hamlet,” “Othello,” “King Lear,” “Macbeth,” “Coriolanus,” “Antony and Cleopatra,” “Timon of Athens.”