Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Some editions include several works which were not completely of Shakespeare’s authorship (collaborative writings), such as The Two Noble Kinsmen, a collaboration with John Fletcher, Pericles, Prince of Tyre or Edward III.This is the one and only illustrated … illustrated edition of a complete Shakespeare collection including everything that ever made by the great writer William Shakespeare.
The greatest works in all of English literature in one book.
This Book contains Shakespeare’s complete plays and complete poems in a new, easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate format.
*The illustrations are in TRAGEDIES and HISTORIES parts of the collection.
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Shakespeare’s use of words, and the thinking behind them, can be absolutely astonishing. He wrote all his life. He never had a day job. By the time he was 40 he was a master of his craft.
As an English major in college nothing thrilled me quite as much as having an entire semester of nothing but Shakespeare. Started my love affair with his writing at the tender age of eleven…Hamlet…goosebumps, tears, and writhing anger! Best present ever was on my 16th birthday receiving The Complete Work of William Shakespeare. He and his works…Sheer Genius!
I love his comedies best but King Lear is one of my favourites too.
How do you review William Shakespeare??!!! I’ve had this book for over 40 years!!!! Could probably use a real re-print.
There is a reason that through the years and centuries this author has become a classic. His plays are continuing to be performed on stage and in movies. Add to the plays his sonnets are included. He is a great wordsmith!
From histories to romances to comedies with jokes that hide in the word choices, all of Shakespeare’s plays lend themselves to societal representations and the dreams of what humans think life could be like.
I’ve always found it a bit difficult to define my relationship with The Bard. I can’t say I luuuurve him, but I’m more than just a fan. I’m enamored, though, of the way he plays with words. In Two Gentlemen From Verona (I think) in Act I there’s a craftsman in the village, and one of the lead characters asks what he is. “I am a mender of bad soles,” says our craftsman. I got a giggle out of that one. He could have been saying he was a “mender of bad souls”–a priest. I once started a project to update one of his plays (can’t remember which one) into the modern vernacular. I think I was thirteen or so. I don’t know what happened to the project, but I do remember it was fun. And, I’ll say my interest in Shakespeare saved my butt during my criminal law class. The professor (who I think was trying to embarrass me–they’re like that) had me stand up in front of the whole class and analyze Othello as a murder case. Because I knew the play well, I rattled off who got charged with what and why. I got some serious brownie points from the prof for pulling off that one.
Enough of memory lane. I suppose that in the end, I simply find Shakespeare to be, if nothing else, enjoyable. His works cover such a range–romances, tragedies, comedies, and so on. I tend to gravitate toward the lighter stuff, though–Midsummer’s Night Dream, rather than King Lear. I gotta be in the mood for Lear, you know? And like I said, I do love his jokes. I tell those who might have the interest but who have never read him to take him slowly, at least at first. Unless, of course, you’re fluent in Elizabethan English.