The complete works
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Author
Contributions
- Wells, Stanley W., 1930- - Contributor
- Taylor, Gary, 1953- - Contributor
Publication
1988 - Clarendon Press, Oxford, England
Language
English
Word Count
318,500 words, Guess
Page Count
1,274 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3703324M
- ISBN-100198711905
- OCLC Control Number40330133
- Internet Archivecompleteworks0000shak_f2s3
- Library of Congress Control Number2003270613
and 2 more
- LibraryThing2480465
- Goodreads286636
Classifications
- DDC822.3/3
- LCCPR2754 .W45 1988b
- LCCPR2754.W45 1994
Description
Contains (order varies by edition): **Comedies** The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew The Comedy of Errors Love¿s Labour¿s Lost A Midsummer Night¿s Dream The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor [Much Ado About Nothing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362691W) As You Like It Twelfth Night, or What You Will Troilus and Cressida Measure for Measure All¿s Well That Ends Well The Two Noble Kinsmen **Histories** The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI) The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI) The First Part of Henry the Sixth The Tragedy of King Richard the Third The Tragedy of King Richard the Second The Life and Death of King John The History of Henry the Fourth (1 Henry IV) The Second Part of Henry the Fourth The Life of Henry the Fifth All Is True (Henry VIII) **Tragedies** Titus Andronicus The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of [Romeo and Juliet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362705W/Romeo_and_Juliet) The Tragedy of Julius Caesar The Tragedy of [Hamlet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15203981W/Hamlet), Prince of Denmark The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice The Life of Timon of Athens The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text The Tragedy of King Lear: A Conflated Text The Tragedy of Macbeth The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra The Tragedy of Coriolanus **Romances** Pericles, Prince of Tyre The Winter¿s Tale Cymbeline, King of Britain [Tempest](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362699W) **Poetry** Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece The Sonnets and ¿A Lover¿s Complaint¿ Various Poems **Lost Plays** Love¿s Labour¿s Won: A Brief Account Cardenio: A Brief Account
Description
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, published in 1986, is an entirely fresh edition of Shakespeare in which the original documents have been re-examined in every detail and edited according to the most up-to-date findings of textual scholarship. There is an informative General Introduction and a glossary, along with a brief introduction to each work, providing essential background. The Complete Oxford Shakespeare brings the modern reader closer to Shakespeare's plays as they were first acted than has ever before been possible.
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- The Oxford Shakespeare
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