The History of King Lear or The Tragedy of King Lear, first printed in 1607–08, exists in two different texts, which are often published on facing pages or combined into one text.
The composition of The Tragedy of Macbeth followed and is usually dated at 1606. At the same time, Shakespeare was writing his sequel to Julius Caesar, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, probably 1607–08, is thought to be a collaboration between Shakespeare and George Wilkins.
With Coriolanus in 1608, Shakespeare again finds his source in Roman history.
After 1610, Shakespeare left London and returned to Stratford and semi-retirement. But he continued to write plays, with The Winter's Tale (1609–11), Cymbeline, King of Britain (1609–10), and The Tempest (1611) largely composed in Stratford.
Shakespeare's life as a playwright concluded with his creation of All Is True or, as it was also known, The Famous History of the Life of Henry the Eighth (1613) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613–14).
