When were Shakespearean plays performed and published?

Answer 1

"Finally published" means published for the last time. I think we can be confident that they will remain in print as long as there is print.

If you mean "When were they first published?" it depends on the play. The first Shakespeare play to be published was Titus Andronicus in 1593. Others were published individually from time to time throughout his lifetime. In 1623 a volume of collected plays was published, called the First Folio, which was the first publication of many of the plays including Julius Caesar and Macbeth. The last Shakespeare play to be published was The Two Noble Kinsmen, which was published for the first time in 1634.

Answer 2

Shakespeare's plays have been published at various times in various places. But if you want to know when they were first published, some of them were published as seperate plays during Shakespeare's lifetime whereas others were not published until they were included in the collection called the First Folio. Some of the plays that were published in his lifetime include Romeo and Juliet (1597), Hamlet (1603), Henry VI Part 2 (1594), Henry VI Part 3 (1595), Henry V (1600), Henry IV Part 1 (1598), Henry IV Part 2 (1600), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600), Much Ado About Nothing (1600), RichardII (1597), Richard III (1597), Titus Andronicus (1594), Troilus and Cressida (1609), The Merchant of Venice (1600), King Lear (1608), Love`s Labour's Lost (1598)and Pericles (1609). These were all published in Quarto format. A quarto version of Othello appeared in 1622 and the following year The First Folio included all of the plays now accepted as Shakespeare's with the exception of The Two Noble Kinsmen which was not published until 1634. All of these plays were published in London, England by various publishers, and they have, of course, been published almost continuously since.

Answer 3

Shakespeare's plays were printed long after they were performed, much longer in the case of unpopular plays. The first to be printed was Titus Andronicus in 1594, but we know that Henry VI Part 3 was performed before 1592, and there are documented performances of Henry VI (not clear which part) in March 1591.

Answer 4

Some 19 of them were printed at various times during his lifetime in small format single play form which are called Quartos. Sometimes the same play was printed more than once in Shakespeare's lifetime (Titus Andronicus, Henry VI Part 2, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, for example). The first collection of Shakespeare's plays is called the First Folio and was printed in 1623. Since then they have been printed over and over and over, pretty much continuously.

Answer 5

Shakespeare's plays have been performed from the early 1590's to the present day with only one important break (from 1642 to 1660). They have been published from 1594 (the first Quarto of Titus Andronicus) to the present day.

Answer 6

He had two of his plays published in 1594: Titus Andronicus and Henry VI Part 2. They were both published anonymously.