Complete works

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An authoritative, modernized edition of the complete works of the great Elizabethan dramatist offers the complete texts of every comedy, tragedy, and history play, along with key facts about each work, a plot summary, major roles, sources, textual history, glossaries, and other helpful textual notes.

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Full title :Complete works / William Shakespeare ; edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen ; chief associate editor, Héloïse Sénéchal.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.
Edition:Modern Library ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Modern Library
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

Notes

At head of title: The RSC Shakespeare.

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:lxv, 2485 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780679642954, 0679642951
oclc:ocn995294942
LC Classification:PR2755
Dewey Decimal:822.33J

General introduction / Jonathan Bate -- Shakespeare our perennial contemporary -- Shakespeare's debut : the "Upstart crow" -- The black story : Shakespeare of Stratford -- The playhouses -- Plague and poetry -- The Lord Chamberlain's Men -- The ensemble at work -- "Dangerous matter" : politics and religion -- The King's man -- The great feast of languages -- Cult and heresy -- The first Folio restored -- Foreword / Michael Boyd -- William Shakespeare : complete works, with introductions and "key facts" / Jonathan Bate

Comedies -- The tempest -- The two gentlemen of Verona -- The merry wives of Windsor -- Measure for measure -- The comedy of errors -- Much ado about nothing -- Love's labour's lost -- A midsummer night's dream -- The merchant of Venice -- As you like it -- The taming of the shrew -- All's well that ends well -- Twelfth night, or, What you will -- The winter's tale

Histories -- The life and death of King John -- The life and death of King Richard the Second -- The first part of Henry the Fourth, with the life and death of Henry surnamed Hotspur -- The second part of Henry the Fourth, containing his death and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth -- The life of Hen…