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I don't normally do this kind of thing, but a relative has sent me a quiz, as i have been in the Shakespeare industry for many years.
Cryptic clue to a Shakespeare play -
'Julian, Anne, Dick, George and Timmy the dog'.
I have no idea.
Remember, an example of the clueing is 'Lizzie's raincoat' (=Macbeth).
Yet also Edward III is definitely one of the other answers, which is def not a fully accepted member of the canon.

A wild guess, Henry V - a very famous five? (I'm sure you recognised Enid Blyton's characters).

Mmm, I suppose he is the most famous king five, but that's weak. even more than than the Macbeth one!
How about this one-
Creatively, it's Volvo, Vauxhall. Rolls Royce. Ford and Jaguar -after a second commercial break.

PS I've never seen any Shakespeare plays, but I assume Henry V is one of the most widely-known. That assumption is because I had heard of it!

Amazed to hear that Malone, I assumed you were the ultimate polymath!

Lumen, I don't mind if my random thought is wide of the mark - it's always good to try!

Your 'Creatively, it's Volvo...' looks like merely a string of words to me, sorry!

I did Macbeth and Hamlet at school, decades ago - 'did' meaning read, discussed, sat exams on... I've never been tempted to revisit any of it!

Maybe it's Will's lost play 'The Car Industry'...
Actually there is a 'lost play, Cardenio. But can't see how that works either.

Well, I've loved Shakespeare all my life (since I was 10 or so, anyway!), seen most of them multiple times, except the more boring history ones, learned ten lines every Sunday for decades and I still can't make any sense of the car one.
The other is pretty ropey, too

Thanks Rosalind! As You Like It does appear in the quiz, which is good for you; and so do Loves Labours Lost and Romeo and Juliet, which don't actually include Rosalind, but very nearly, as I'm sure you know.

Rosalind, lovely to hear of your enthusiasm - and just as well with your name. Although I'm not a fan of the plays, I do like some of Shakespeare's verse (oh, and many of the quotes from the plays).