The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness.

This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.

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Library Journal Review

This reprint of Peter Alexander's 1951 edit of the whiz from Stratford's Complete Works includes the full text of Shakespeare's total output, along with a new intro by Peter Ackroyd, a quickie biography, a primer on Shakespearean theater by Anthony Burgess, a 2500-word glossary, a list of related web sites, and more goodies. It's a lot for the money, but note that the type size is tiny! (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.