Merchant of Venice. - Repositories

XX INTROD UCTION
time revising old plays and turning old stories into
new plays of his own. Below is given a list ^ of the
plays in the approximate order of their composition.
1. PRE-SHAKESPEARIAN GROUP.
(^Touched by Shakespeare.)
Titus Andronicus (1588-90).2
1 Henry VI. (1590-91).
2. EARLY COMEDIES.
Love's Labour's Lost (1590).
Comedy of Errors (1591).
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1592-93).
Midsummer Night's Dream (1593-94).
3. MARLOWE-SHAKESPEARE GROUP : EARLY HISTORY.
2 and 3 Henry VI. (1591-92).
Richard III. (1593).
4. EARLY TRAGEDY.
Romeo and Juliet (? two dates, 1591, 1596-97).
6. MIDDLE HISTORY.
Richard IL (1594).
King John (1595).
6. MIDDLE COMEDY.
Merchant of Venice (1596).
1 From Dowden's Shakespeare Primer.
2 Sidney Lee (Life of Shakespeare) says that Titus Andronicus
was composed soon after 1692.