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A compact edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. It combines impeccable scholarship with beautifully written editorial material and a user-friendly layout of the text. Also included is a foreword, list of contents, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, glossary, consolidated bibliography and index of first lines of Sonnets. - ;A compact edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. It combines impeccable scholarship with beautifully written editorial material and a user-friendly layout of the text. Also included is a foreword, list of contents, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, glossary, consolidated bibliography and index of first lines of Sonnets. - ;remains the mo,st distinctive, and in many ways the best, one-volume Shakespeare currently available and will not be easily replaced. - Forum for Modern Languages;beautifully produced - Brian Vickers, Times Literary Supplement;Pound for pound the most consistently interesting and provocative edition of Shakespeare ever published. - Andrew Murphy, Around the Globe;Oxford has launched- the ballistic image does seem apt- a second single volume version of its revolutionary edition, which first excited and outraged Shakespeareans in 1986. Oxford's Complete Works has a solid, traditional look but explodes into cutting-edge controversy inside. - Independent. Intro -- CONTENTS -- ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- A USER'S GUIDE TO THE COMPLETE WORKS -- THE LANGUAGE OF SHAKESPEARE -- CONTEMPORARY ALLUSIONS TO SHAKESPEARE -- COMMENDATORY POEMS AND PREFACES -- THE COMPLETE WORKS -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1589-91) -- The Taming of the Shrew (1590-1) -- The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (1590-1) -- The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (1591) -- The First Part of Henry the Sixth (1592) -- The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus (1592) -- The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (1592-3) -- Venus and Adonis (1592-3) -- The Rape of Lucrece (1593-4) -- The Reign of King Edward the Third (1594) -- The Comedy of Errors (1594) -- Love's Labour's Lost (1594-5) -- Love's Labour's Won (1595-6): A Brief Account -- The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (1595) -- The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (1595) -- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595) -- The Life and Death of King John (1596) -- The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice (1596-7) -- The History of Henry the Fourth (1596-7) -- The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597-8) -- The Second Part of Henry the Fourth (1597-8) -- Much Ado About Nothing (1598-9) -- The Life of Henry the Fifth (1598-9) -- The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (1599) -- As You Like It (1599-1600) -- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1600-1) -- Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1601) -- Troilus and Cressida (1602) -- Sonnets (1593-1603) and 'A Lover's Complaint' (1603-4) -- Various Poems (1593-1616) -- The Book of Sir Thomas More (1603-4) -- Measure for Measure (1603-4 -- adapted 1621) -- The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (1603-4) -- The History of King Lear (1605-6): The Quarto Text.
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