Complete Works: The Complete Works - Hardcover

Shakespeare, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517092948 ISBN 13: 9780517092941

Publisher: Random House Value Publications, 2002

Synopsis

No home library would be complete without this fine collection of all of William Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

About this title

Review:

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)

About the Author:

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564. The date of his birth is not known but is traditionally 23 April, St George's Day. Aged 18, he married a Stratford farmer's daughter, Anne Hathaway. They had three children. Around 1585 William joined an acting troupe on tour in Stratford from London, and thereafter spent much of his life in the capital. A member of the leading theatre group in London, the Chamberlain's Men, which built the Globe Theatre and frequently performed in front of Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare wrote 36 plays and much poetry besides. He died in 1616.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Value Publications
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0517092948
• ISBN 13: 9780517092941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1227