Harold Bloom's List of Shakespeare's Masterpieces.

"Shakespeare has some two dozen masterpieces among his thirty-nine plays..." 

"twenty-four of which are masterpieces."

The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night Romeo and Juliet Macbeth

Hamlet Othello All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure Richard III

Titus Andronicus Julius Caesar King Lear Antony and Cleopatra Henry IV, part 1 The Winter's Tale Henry V Henry VI, part 2

According to Bloom, Shakespeare's first great play was Love's Labour's Lost; he therefore excludes Titus Andronicus, The Taming of the Shrew and The Comedy of Errors, among other early works, from the list of masterpieces. See his Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human for more. —KevinMyers 04:20, 8 December 2009 (UTC)