William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

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William Shakespeare Stanley Wells (Stanley Wells is former Director of the Shakespeare Institue, University of Birmingham)

William Shakespeare

The Complete Works

William Shakespeare, Stanley Wells (Stanley Wells is former Director of the Shakespeare Institue, University of Birmingham), Gary Taylor (Gary Taylor is Director of the Hudson Strode Programme in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama) , John Jowett (Dr John Jowett is reader of Shakespeare Studies in the English department of the University of Birmingham)

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Oxford University Press
01 July 2005

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Shakespeare plays; Anthologies (non-poetry)

A compact edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. It combines impeccable scholarship with beautifully written editorial material and a user-friendly layout of the text. Also included is a foreword, list of contents, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, glossary, consolidated bibliography and index of first lines of Sonnets.

By: William Shakespeare
Edited by: Stanley Wells (Stanley Wells is former Director of the Shakespeare Institue University of Birmingham), Gary Taylor (Gary Taylor is Director of the Hudson Strode Programme in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama), John Jowett (Dr John Jowett is reader of Shakespeare Studies in the English department of the University of Birmingham), William Montgomery (William Montgomery works for the Guardian Newspaper)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 243mm, Width: 182mm, Spine: 53mm
Weight: 2g
ISBN: 9780199267170
ISBN 10: 0199267170
Publication Date: 01 July 2005
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Contemporary Allusions to Shakespeare Commendatory Poems and Prefaces (1599-1640) 1: The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2: The Taming of the Shrew 3: The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI) 4: The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI) 5: The First Part of Henry the Sixth 6: The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus 7: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third 8: Venus and Adonis 9: The Rape of Lucrece 10: The Reign of King Edward the Third 11: The Comedy of Errors 12: Love's Labour's Lost 13: Love's Labour's Won: A Brief Account 14: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second 15: The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet 16: A Midsummer Night's Dream 17: The Life and Death of King John 18: The Comical History of The Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice 19: The History of Henry the Fourth (1 Henry IV) 20: The Merry Wives of Windsor 21: The Second Part of Henry the Fourth (2 Henry IV) 22: Much Ado About Nothing 23: The Life of Henry the Fifth 24: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar 25: As You Like It 26: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 27: Twelfth Night, or What You Will 28: Troilus and Cressida 29: Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint' 30: Various Poems 31: Sir Thomas More 32: Measure for Measure 33: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice 34: The Life of Timon of Athens 35: The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text 36: The Tragedy of Macbeth 37: The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra 38: All's Well That Ends Well 39: Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Reconstructed Text 40: The Tragedy of Coriolanus 41: The Winter's Tale 42: The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text 43: Cymbeline, King of Britain 44: The Tempest 45: Cardenio: A Brief Account 46: All Is True (Henry VIII) 47: The Two Noble Kinsmen Select Glossary

Reviews for William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

`This new edition has an extremely helpful introductory essay on 'The Language of Shakespeare' by David Crystal, a User's Guide and a list of suggested further reading. That which was good is now even better.' Contemporary Review