List of Shakespeare's plays, for reference. So we can know what he wrote before and after 1599.
From
wikipedia.
(Dates in parentheses indicate the date of first publication only.)
* 1590 (1598) Henry VI, Part I
Stationers' Register on 25 February 1598.
* 1590 (1594) Henry VI, Part II
* 1590 (1595) Henry VI, Part III
Parodied by Robert Greene in 1592.
* 1592 (1602) Richard III
In Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays.
* 1592 (1623) Comedy of Errors
If this is the same as the play entitled "The Night of Errors," it was performed on 28 December 1594. Probably the "errors" in Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays.
* 1593 (1594) Titus Andronicus
According to the first published edition it was performed by a company that folded in early 1593. In 1594 Philip Henslowe referred to it as a "new" play. In Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays.
* 1593 (1623) Taming of the Shrew
* 1594 (1623) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
In Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays. The work may have been based on Bartholomew Yong's translation of Montemayor's Diana, which was done in 1583 but not published until 1598.
* 1594 (1598) Love's Labour's Lost
In Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays.
* 1594 (1597) Romeo and Juliet
In Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays.
* 1595 (1597) Richard II
In Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays.
* 1595 (1600) A Midsummer Night's Dream
In Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays.
* 1596 (1622) King John
In Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays.
* 1596 (1600) The Merchant of Venice
Recorded at Stationers' Register on 22 July 1598. In Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays.
* 1597 Henry IV, Part I
In Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays.
* 1594-1597 (1603?) Love's Labour's Won
In Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays. In Christopher Hunt's August 1603 booklist. A lost play.
* 1598 (1600) Henry IV, Part II
* 1599 (1600) Henry V
Chorus expresses hope for the Earl of Essex's Irish expedition of 1599.
* 1599 (1623) Julius Caesar
Mentioned by Thomas Platter in 1599.
* 1599 (1600) Much Ado About Nothing
* 1599 (1623) As You Like It
Stationers' Register in August 1600
* 1597-1600 (1602) The Merry Wives of Windsor
* 1601 (1603) Hamlet
Stationers' Register in July 1602 describes it as “lately acted.”
* 1602 (1623) Twelfth Night
* 1602 (1609) Troilus and Cressida
Stationers' Register in February 1603.
* 1603 (1623) All's Well That Ends Well
No contemporary reference.
* 1603 (1622) Othello
Performed November 1604.
* 1603-06 (1608) King Lear
Stationers' Register in November 1607.
* 1603-06 (1623) Macbeth
* 1603 (1623) Measure for Measure
Court records show it was performed December 1604.
* 1606 (1623) Antony and Cleopatra
Stationers' Register in May 1608.
* 1607 (1623) Coriolanus
* 1607 (1623) Timon of Athens (probably revised by Thomas Middleton)
* 1608 (1609) Pericles Prince of Tyre (probably revised by George Wilkins)
Stationers' Register in May 1608.
* 1609 (1623) Cymbeline
* 1610 (1623) The Winter's Tale
* 1611 (1623) The Tempest
* 1612 (1623) Henry VIII (probably written in collaboration with John Fletcher)
Was performed on 29 June 1613, when the Globe Theatre burnt down.
* 1612 (1728) Cardenio (written in collaboration with John Fletcher)
Was performed in 1613. Published only in an adaptation by Lewis Theobald entitled Double Falshood; essentially a lost play.
* 1612 (1634) The Two Noble Kinsmen (written in collaboration with John Fletcher).
The following plays have been attributed to Shakespeare but are in fact of different or uncertain authorship:
* 1592-1595 (1844) Sir Thomas More
Originally written by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle, and heavily revised perhaps ten years later by Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker and (perhaps) William Shakespeare, whose writing has been tentatively identified as "Hand D" in the manuscript.
* 1600 (1600) Sir John Oldcastle
Philip Henslowe's diary records it was actually written by Anthony Munday, Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye and Robert Wilson in collaboration.
* 1604 (1605) The London Prodigal
Acted by Shakespeare's company and published under his name, but the style is not his.
* 1605 (1608) A Yorkshire Tragedy
Acted by Shakespeare's company and published under his name, but the style is not his. More probably by Thomas Middleton.