William Shakespeare : The Complete Works (Illustrated) (Phoenix Classics)

William Shakespeare : The Complete Works (Illustrated) (Phoenix Classics)

This volume collects the complete writings of William Shakespeare, <u><b>newly updated</b></u>, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!<br />William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness. This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.<br /><br />Content :<br /><br />COMEDIES<br />The Comedy of Errors<br />The Taming of the Shrew<br />The Two Gentlemen of Verona<br />Love’s Labor’s Lost<br />A Midsummer Night’s Dream<br />The Merchant of Venice<br />The Merry Wives of Windsor<br />Much Ado about Nothing<br />As You Like It<br />Twelfth Night, or What You Will<br />The History of Troilus and Cressida<br />All’s Well That Ends Well<br />Measure for Measure<br /><br />HISTORIES<br />The First Part of Henry the Sixth<br />The Second Part of Henry the Sixth<br />The Third Part of Henry the Sixth<br />The Tragedy of Richard the Third<br />The Life and Death of King John<br />The Tragedy of King Richard the Second<br />The First Part of Henry the Fourth<br />The Second Part of Henry the Fourth<br />The Life of Henry the Fifth<br />The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth<br /><br />TRAGEDIES<br />The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus<br />The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet<br />The Tragedy of Julius Caesar<br />The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark<br />The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice<br />The Tragedy of King Lear<br />The Tragedy of Macbeth<br />The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra<br />The Tragedy of Coriolanus<br />The Life of Timon of Athens<br /><br />ROMANCES<br />Pericles, Prince of Tyre<br />Cymbeline<br />The Winter’s Tale<br />The Tempest<br />The Two Noble Kinsmen<br /><br />POEMS<br />Venus and Adonis<br />The Rape of Lucrece<br />Sonnets<br />A Lover’s Complaint<br />The Passionate Pilgrim<br />The Phoenix and Turtle