similarities to medieval romance literature. Among the features of these plays are a redemptive plotline with a happy ending, and magic and other fantastic elements. Canonical plays Except where noted, the plays below are listed, for the thirty-six plays included in the First Folio of 1623, according to the order in which they appear there, with two plays that were not included (Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Two Noble Kinsmen) being added at the end of the list of comedies and Edward III at the end of the list of histories. Comedies The Tempest LR The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Merry Wives of Windsor Measure for Measure PP The Comedy of Errors Much Ado About Nothing Love's Labour's Lost A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice PP As You Like It The Taming of the Shrew All's Well That Ends Well PP Twelfth Night The Winter's Tale LR PP Pericles, Prince of Tyre LR FF The Two Noble Kinsmen LR FF Histories 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 Richard III Henry VIII Edward III FF Tragedies Troilus and Cressida PP Coriolanus Titus Andronicus Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens PP Julius Caesar Macbeth Hamlet King Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline LR Note: Plays marked with LR are now commonly referred to as the "late romances". Plays marked with PP are sometimes referred to as the "problem plays". The three plays marked with FF were not included in the First Folio. Dramatic collaborations Like most playwrights of his period, Shakespeare did not always write alone, and a number of his plays were collaborative, although the exact number is open to debate. Some of the following attributions, such as for The Two Noble Kinsmen, have well-attested contemporary documentation; others, such as for Titus Andronicus, remain more controversial and are dependent on linguistic analysis by modern scholars. Cardenio (a lost play or one that survives only as a later adaptation, Double Falsehood) – Contemporaneous reports suggest that Shakespeare collaborated with John Fletcher. Cymbeline – The Yale Shakespeare suggests that a collaborator may have been responsible for parts or all of act III, scene 7, and act V, scene 2 Edward III – Brian Vickers concluded that the play was 40% Shakespeare and 60% Thomas Kyd. Henry VI, Part 1