The Complete Works
Published on 1. October 1988
Book
Hardback
1324 pages
978-0-19-811747-6 (ISBN)
Description
"William Shakespeare: the Complete Works", first published in 1986, is presented here in a compact format. This new edition re-examines the original documents and includes recent findings of textual scholarship. The works are given in chronological order, original titles have been restored and the canon has been rethought permitting the inclusion of "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and some generally unfamiliar short poems. "King Lear" is printed both as Shakespeare originally wrote it and as he revised it some years later. Other plays, too, are based on what new research has identified as Shakespeare's revised, more theatrical text. Stage directions have been reconsidered in the light of the plays' original staging, and spelling and punctuation have been modernized. Stanley Wells has written the general introduction and an introduction to each individual work. He and Gary Taylor are the general editors while each of the four editors has undertaken prime responsibility for certain works.
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Edition
Compact ed
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
frontispiece, 17 halftones on text paper
ISBN-13
978-0-19-811747-6 (9780198117476)
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Content
Contemporary allusions to Shakespeare. Commendatory poems and prefaces. "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"; "The Taming of the Shrew"; "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 Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus"; "The First Part of Henry the Sixth"; "The Tragedy of King Richard the Third"; "Venus and Adonis"; "The Rape of Lucrece"; "The Comedy of Errors"; "Love's Labour's Lost"; "Love's Labour's Won" - a brief account; "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; "The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet"; "The Tragedy of King Richard the Second"; "The Life and Death of King John"; "The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice"; "The History of Henry the Fourth" ("1 Henry IV")"; "The Merry Wives of Windsor"; "The Second Part of Henry the Fourth"; "Much Ado About Nothing"; "The Life of Henry the Fifth"; "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar"; "As You Like It"; "The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark"; "Twelfth Night, or What You Will"; "Troilus and Cressida"; sonnets and "A Lover's Complaint"; various poems; "Sir Thomas More" - passages attributed to Shakespeare; "Measure for Measure"; "The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice"; "All's Well That Ends Well"; "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 Macbeth"; "The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra"; "Pericles Prince of Tyre" - a reconstructed text; "The Tragedy of Coriolanus"; "The Winter's Tale"; "Cymbeline King of Britain"; "The Tempest"; "Cardenio" - a brief account; "All is True" ("Henry VIII"); "The Two Noble Kinsmen".