While Shakespeare work is so widely known and biographies and criticism so abundant that a brief sketch can only be redundant, it is useful to be reminded that through the work of the eighteenth-century British literary history and criticism establishment, Shakespeare had by the later part of the century attained the status of the most exemplary of British writers, a national treasure and incontestable proof of Britain's supposed cultural superiority over the rest of the world. Dramatic productions include Henry VI, parts 1, 2, and 3 (c. 1589-1592), Richard III (c. 1591-1592), The Comedy of Errors (c. 1592-1594), Titus Andronicus (1594), The Taming of the Shrew (1594), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1594), Love's Labor's Lost (c. 1594-1595), King John (c. 1594-1596), Richard II (c. 1595), Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595-1596), A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-1596), The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596-1597), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597), Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598-1599), Henry V (1599?), Julius Caesar (1599), As You Like It (c. 1599-1600), Hamlet (c. 1600-1601), Twelfth Night (1601-1602?), Troilus and Cressida (c. 1601-1602?), All's Well That Ends Well (c. 1602-1603), Measure for Measure (1604), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606), Timon of Athens (c. 1605-1608), Macbeth (1606), Antony and Cleopatra (c.1606-1607), Pericles (c. 1606-1608), Coriolanus (c. 1607-1608), Cymbeline (1609), The Winter's Tale (1611), The Tempest (1611), Cardenio, probably by Shakespeare and John Fletcher (c. 1612-1613), Henry VIII, by Shakespeare and possibly John Fletcher (1613), and The Two Noble Kinsmen, by Shakespeare and John Fletcher (1613). Non-dramatic verse includes his sonnets, which were published in 1609; Venus and Adonis (1593), The Rape of Lucrece (1594), and The Phoenix and Turtle (1601).