William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

by Shakespeare, William; Wells, Stanley; Taylor, Gary; Jowet, John; Montgomery, William

• ISBN13: 9780198711902
• ISBN10: 0198711905
• Edition: Pamphlet
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The new Oxford edition of Shakespeare's complete works reconsiders everydetail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. Thenature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon andchronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuationare modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as anilluminating and informative General Introduction. OUP and Shakespeare's GlobeTheatre this year embark on an official partnership to celebrate the plays bothin print and performance -- this reissued and rejacketed edition of the completeworks underscores the commitment.

Author Biography

Stanley Wells Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Vice-Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, he is also Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham Gary Taylor is Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama John Jowett is Lecturer in English at the University of Glasgow William Montgomery is a Shakespeare scholar with a D.Phil from the University of Oxford

Table of Contents

Alphabetical List of Contents	xi
List of Illustrations	xiii
General Introduction	xv
Contemporary Allusions to Shakespeare	xl
Commendatory Poems and Prefaces	xliii
THE COMPLETE WORKS
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	1	(24)
The Taming of the Shrew	25	(30)
The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI)	55	(36)
The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI)	91	(34)
The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus	125	(28)
The First Part of Henry the Sixth	153	(30)
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third	183	(40)
Venus and Adonis	223	(14)
The Rape of Lucrece	237	(20)
The Comedy of Errors	257	(22)
Love's Labour's Lost	279	(30)
Love's Labour's Won: A Brief Account	309	(2)
A Midsummer Night's Dream	311	(24)
The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet	335	(32)
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second	367	(30)
The Life and Death of King John	397	(28)
The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice	425	(28)
The History of Henry the Fourth (I Henry IV)	453	(30)
The Merry Wives of Windsor	483	(26)
The Second Part of Henry the Fourth	509	(32)
Much Ado About Nothing	541	(26)
The Life of Henry the Fifth	567	(32)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar	599	(28)
As You Like It	627	(26)
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	653	(38)
Twelfth Night, or What You Will	691	(24)
Troilus and Cressida	715	(34)
Sonnets and `A Lover's Complaint'	749	(28)
Various Poems	777	(8)
Sir Thomas More: Passages Attributed to Shakespeare	785	(4)
Measure for Measure	789	(30)
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice	819	(36)
All's Well That Ends Well	855	(28)
The Life of Timon of Athens	883	(26)
The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text	909	(34)
The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text	943	(32)
The Tragedy of Macbeth	975	(26)
The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra	1001	(36)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Reconstructed Text	1037	(28)
The Tragedy of Coriolanus	1065	(36)
The Winter's Tale	1101	(30)
Cymbeline, King of Britain	1131	(36)
The Tempest	1167	(24)
Cardenio: A Brief Account	1191	(2)
All is True (Henry VIII)	1193	(32)
The Two Noble Kinsmen	1225	(32)
Select Glossary	1257	(16)
Index of First Lines of the Sonnets	1273