Play Titles and Abbreviations

All’s Well that Ends Well AW
Antony and Cleopatra AC
As You Like It AYL
The Comedy of Errors CE
Coriolanus Cor
Cymbeline Cym
Hamlet Ham
Henry IV, Part 1 1H4
Henry IV, Part 2 2H4
Henry V H5
Henry VI, Part 1 1H6
Henry VI, Part 2 2H6
Henry VI, Part 3 3H6
Henry VIII H8
Julius Caesar JC

King John KJ
King Lear KL
Love’s Labour’s Lost LLL
Macbeth Mac
Measure for Measure MM
The Merchant of Venice MV
The Merry Wives of Windsor MW
A Midsummer Night’s Dream MND
Much Ado About Nothing MA
Othello Oth
Pericles Per
Richard II R2

Richard III R3
Romeo and Juliet RJ
The Taming of the Shrew TS
The Tempest Tem
Timon of Athens Tim
Titus Andronicus TA
Troilus and Cressida TC
Twelfth Night TN
The Two Gentlemen of Verona TGV
The Two Noble Kinsmen TNK
The Winter’s Tale WT

Sonnets Son
Folio F
Quarto Q

This list follows the DSG Stylesheet for Manuscripts (undated), available at: https://shakespearegesellschaft.de/wp-content/uploads/Style-Sheet-SHJB.pdf
Only the proposed abbreviation for Titus Andronicus was changed from ‘Tit’ to ‘TA’ –for obvious reasons.