Table of Contents
Praise
Title Page
Copyright Page
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A USER’S GUIDE TO THE COMPLETE WORKS
THE LANGUAGE OF SHAKESPEARE
CONTEMPORARY ALLUSIONS TO SHAKESPEARE
COMMENDATORY POEMS AND PREFACES (1599-1640)
THE COMPLETE WORKS
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
The Taming of the Shrew
THE FIRST PART OF THE CONTENTION - (2 HENRY VI)
The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster
RICHARD DUKE OF YORK - (3 HENRY VI)
The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth
HENRY VI PART ONE
The First Part of Henry the Sixth
TITUS ANDRONICUS
The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
RICHARD III
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
VENUS AND ADONIS
Venus and Adonis
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE
The Rape of Lucrece
EDWARD III
The Reign of King Edward the Third
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
The Comedy of Errors
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
Love’s Labour’s Lost
LOVE’S LABOUR’S WON - A BRIEF ACCOUNT
RICHARD II
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
ROMEO AND JULIET
The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
KING JOHN
The Life and Death of King John
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice
1 HENRY IV
The History of Henry the Fourth
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
The Merry Wives of Windsor
2 HENRY IV
The Second Part of Henry the Fourth
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Much Ado About Nothing
HENRY V
The Life of Henry the Fifth
JULIUS CAESAR
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
AS YOU LIKE IT
As You Like It
HAMLET
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
TWELFTH NIGHT
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
Troilus and Cressida
SONNETS AND ‘A LOVER’S COMPLAINT’
Sonnets
A Lover’s Complaint
VARIOUS POEMS
Various Poems
SIR THOMAS MORE
NOTE ON SPECIAL FEATURES OF PRESENTATION
The Book of Sir Thomas More
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Measure for Measure
OTHELLO
The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice
THE HISTORY OF KING LEAR - THE QUARTO TEXT
The History of King Lear
TIMON OF ATHENS
The Life of Timon of Athens
MACBETH
The Tragedy of Macbeth
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
All’s Well That Ends Well
PERICLES
A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre
CORIOLANUS
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
THE WINTER’S TALE
The Winter’s Tale
THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR - THE FOLIO TEXT
The Tragedy of King Lear
CYMBELINE
Cymbeline, King of Britain
THE TEMPEST
The Tempest
CARDENIO - A BRIEF ACCOUNT
ALL IS TRUE - (HENRY VIII)
All Is True
THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN
The Two Noble Kinsmen
FURTHER READING
A SELECT GLOSSARY
INDEX OF FIRST LINES OF SONNETS
Martin Droeshout’s engraving of Shakespeare, first published on the title-page of the First Folio (1623)
To the Reader
This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver had a strife
With nature to outdo the life.
O, could he but have drawn his wit
As well in brass as he hath hit
His face, the print would then surpass
All that was ever writ in brass!
But since he cannot, reader, look
Not on his picture, but his book.
BEN JOHNSON
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