How many plays did William Shakespeare write before the midsummer nights dream?

Answer 1

Uncounted numbers. Romeo and Juliet was written in 1595 or so. All the Greek plays were written before that, and all the Roman ones, and the medieval mystery and morality plays. There were even a lot of English plays which we know of which were written earlier, like Gorbaduc, or Gammer Gurton's Needle, or Ralph Roister Doister, or Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, or Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, or anything written by Marlowe. Shakespeare himself wrote a number of plays before Romeo and Juliet, although we cannot be exactly sure how many, because there is no record of the exact order in which they were written.

Answer 2

Nobody knows exactly what order Shakespeare wrote his plays, and, indeed, we are not really sure whether we know all the plays he wrote. Approximately, Macbeth was written after Shakespeare had written about half to two-thirds of his plays.

Answer 3

Different scholars have placed the plays in different orders, so Romeo and Juliet could be the twelfth or the fifth or anywhere in between. We cannot be sure.

Answer 4

6

Answer 5

3