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Order these Shakespeare plays by the year each was first written or performed. Place all 38 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.
38
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Lives per run
release years and dates
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How Shakespeare plays is played
Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.
This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.
What's in the deck
28 of the 38 cards you could be dealt, plus 10 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona Early comedy of love and friendship
- The Taming of the Shrew Comedy of Petruchio and Katherina
- Henry VI, Part 2 History of the Wars of the Roses
- Henry VI, Part 1 History of the Hundred Years' War
- Richard III History of a hunchbacked usurper
- The Comedy of Errors Farce of two sets of twins
- Love's Labour's Lost Comedy of a king's broken vow
- Romeo and Juliet Tragedy of star-crossed lovers
- Richard II History of a deposed king
- King John History of a contested crown
- The Merchant of Venice Comedy with a pound of flesh
- Henry IV, Part 1 History introducing Falstaff
- Much Ado About Nothing Comedy of Beatrice and Benedick
- Henry V History of Agincourt
- As You Like It Comedy in the Forest of Arden
- Hamlet Tragedy of a Danish prince
- The Merry Wives of Windsor Comedy featuring Falstaff
- Troilus and Cressida Problem play set at Troy
- Othello Tragedy of jealousy and Iago
- All's Well That Ends Well Problem comedy of Helena
- King Lear Tragedy of a king and three daughters
- Macbeth Tragedy of a Scottish usurper
- Antony and Cleopatra Tragedy of Rome and Egypt
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre Romance of a wandering prince
- Coriolanus Tragedy of a Roman general
- Cymbeline Romance of ancient Britain
- The Tempest Romance of Prospero's island
- Henry VIII History of a Tudor king
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