Shakespeare’s plays ranked

1. Richard III

2. Titus Andronicus

3. (tie)

The Tempest

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Measure for Measure

The Comedy of Errors

Much Ado About Nothing

Love’s Labour’s Lost

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Merchant of Venice

As You Like It

The Taming of the Shrew

All’s Well That Ends Well

Twelfth Night

The Winter’s Tale

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

The Two Noble Kinsmen

King John

Richard II

Henry IV, Part 1

Henry IV, Part 2

Henry V

Henry VI, Part 1

Henry VI, Part 2

Henry VI, Part 3

Henry VIII

Troilus and Cressida

Coriolanus

Timon of Athens

Julius Caesar

Macbeth

Hamlet

King Lear

Othello

Antony and Cleopatra

Cymbeline

38. Romeo and Juliet