Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, all numbered (such as Sonnet 18), the long poems Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and The Phoenix and the Turtle, and 38 plays. The plays are traditionally divided into the histories (King John, Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III and Henry VIII), the tragedies (Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, and Othello), and the comedies (All's Well that Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, Pericles Prince of Tyre, Troilus and Cressida, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Much Ado about Nothing)
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The word Gordon does not appear in Macbeth or any of Shakespeare's works.
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His first literary success was his poem Venus and Adonis.