The Beauties of Shakespear: Volume I

by William Dodd (Editor), William Shakespeare (Contributor)

ACE 0714625280 (ISBN13: 9780714625287)

Selections from:
All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter’s Tale
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet

264 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 2015

About the author

Rev. Dr. William Dodd, LL.D. (Law, Cambridge University, 1766; M.A., Cambridge U., 1759; B.A., Mathematics (Wrangler), Clare College, Cambridge, 1749/50), was an Anglican clergyman and writer known as the Macaroni Parson for his extravagant lifestyle.

He eventually forged a bond in an effort to clear his debts, was caught, convicted, and, despite a public campaign that included the support of Samuel Johnson for a Royal pardon, became the last person to be hanged at Tyburn for forgery.