William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Collector's Library Editions in Colour) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190571677X ISBN 13: 9781905716777

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2009

Synopsis

This title includes more than five hundred full colour illustrations by Sir John Gilbert. It features the Complete Works, reset using the famous Shakespeare Head text. All of Shakespeare's works in one volume. It also includes Shakespeare's world been captured by the titan of Victorian illustration, Sir John Gilbert RA. Gilbert's illustrations sensitively hand-coloured by Barbara Frith, one of Britain's finest colourists, whose work has won widespread acclaim. This sumptuous volume contains biographies of Shakespeare and Sir John Gilbert. It is presented in page size 270mm X 210mm; 726 pages; printed laminated case and dustjacket.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190571677X
• ISBN 13: 9781905716777
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Gilbert Sir John
• Number of pages: 726