Anthologies, Shakespeare, Poetry, English Literature 

Set in clear, easy-to-read type, this budget, slim, lightweight volume is a favourite study text with students. It also features a glossary of obsolete words and words which vary from their ordinary established meaning. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), the greatest English dramatist and poet, was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a number of other poems. His plays have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. This volume contains the complete dramatic works of the literary genius whose work has enthralled audiences since Elizabethan times. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. In his works you will find tragedy, comedy, history, romance, fantasy, horror and a vast range of human experience that is still poignant in modern times. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians worshipped him. In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. Today, his plays remain extremely popular and are continually studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world. - from Amzon



V. 1. The tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Measure for measure --

v. 2. The comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost ; A midsummer night's dream --

v. 3. The merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; The taming of the shrew ; All's well that ends well --

v. 4. Twelfth night ; The winter's tale ; Cymbeline --

v. 5. Life and death of King John ; The tragedy of King Richard II ; The first part of King Henry IV --

v. 6. The second part of King Henry IV ; The life of King Henry V ; The first part of King Henry VI --

v. 7. The second part of King Henry VI ; The third part of King Henry VI ; The tragedy of King Richard III --

v. 8. Famous history of the life of King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; The tragedy of Coriolanus --

v. 9. The tragedy of Titus Andronicus ; The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ; The tragedy of Timon of Athens ; The tragedy of Julius Cæsar --

v. 10. The tragedy of Macbeth ; The tragedy of Hamlet ; The tragedy of King Lear --

v. 11. The tragedy of Othello ; The tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra ; The tragedy of Pericles --

v. 12. Life of Shakespeare ; Venus and Adonis, etc. ; Rape of Lucrece ; Sonnets.