Complete Works Ultimate Collection

by William Shakespeare, Darryl Marks (Foreword), William Hazlitt

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10 Unique Painted Illustrations created for this collectionHistorical & Literary Context Notes Incl. Biography and Explanation of Apocryphal PlaysComplete Works of Shakespeare Plus BonusesRead on to Learn More

William Shakespeare Complete Works Ultimate CollectionThis is the world’s best Shakespeare collection, including the most complete set of Shakespeare’s works available plus many bonus materials.

ShakespeareShakespeare is the first name we think of when we think of English literature. His works have an absolutely timeless quality.

The ‘Must-Have’ CollectionIn this irresistible collection you get a full set of Shakespeare’s work, including not only all his plays, poetry, annotations and commentaries on those, but also his rare, hard-to-find Apocryphal Plays.

Apocryphal PlaysThe Apocryphal Plays were not as widely published as Shakespeare’s well-known works, not included in the famous ‘First Folio’.

As a result, they are extremely sought-after and electrifying argument rage over them.



The Famous Commentaries

This ultimate collection also contains some of the most famous commentaries on Shakespeare’s works, from some of the most celebrated literature experts in

Samuel Johnson - Known as the most quoted man after Shakespeare, Johnson’s famous ‘Preface to Shakespeare’ is one of The authorities on The Bard.

William Hazlitt - Hazlitt is considered one of the great essayists of the English language. His in depth analysis, Characters Of Shakespeare’s Plays, explores each play and its players.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The writer who reignited the literary world’s appreciation of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare BiographiesThis collection also included 2 full length

Life Of Shakespeare By Sidney Lee

A Study In Shakespeare By Algernon Charles Swinburne

BonusesIn addition, you also receive in this



Life of Shakespeare – A quick biography about Shakespeare’s intriguing life



Apocryphal Explanation - Commentary about the fascinating Apocryphal Plays

10 Unique Painted Illustrations created specially for this collection, incl. Paintings of Othello, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet

Get It NowThis is the best Shakespeare collection you can get, so get it now and start enjoying and being inspired by his world.

All Shakespeare's Works Loves Labours Lost

Merchant Of Venice

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Tempest

Twelfth Night

Henry VI Pt I, II & III

Richard III

Romeo & Juliet

Coriolanus

Titus Andronicus

Julius Caesar

Genres: Classics, Poetry, Plays, Literature, Fiction, Shakespeare

1706 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 14, 2010

About the author

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI and I of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".

Reviews

[Keith]

My reviews of the complete works of William Shakespeare:

The Plays, in Marjorie Garber’s chronological order:
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Taming of the Shrew
Titus Andronicus
Henry VI Part 1
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 3
Richard III
The Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Richard II
King John
The Merchant of Venice
Henry IV Part 1
Henry IV Part 2
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado About Nothing
Henry V
Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Troilus and Cressida
Measure for Measure
Othello
All’s Well That Ends Well
Timon of Athens
King Lear
Macbeth
Antony and Cleopatra
Pericles
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
The Winter’s Tale
The Tempest
Henry VIII (All Is True)
The Two Noble Kinsmen

The Poems:
Venus and Adonis (1593)
The Rape of Lucrece (1594)
The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601)
The Sonnets (1609)
A Lover’s Complaint (1609)




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Citation:
Shakespeare, W. (2010). William Shakespeare complete works ultimate collection (D. Mark, Ed.; Kindle Edition). Everlasting Flames Publishing. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

Title: William Shakespeare Complete Works Ultimate Collection
Author(s): William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Year: 2010
Genre: Fiction - Poetry & Plays
Page count: 1,706 pages
Date(s) read: 1/1/25 - 11/12/25 ***************************************************************************

[Ian · Rating 5 out of 5]

A master of the English language. Says so much with so few words and with such feeling. No one before or after has surpassed him in the manipulation of the English language.

I've had this book on my bedside table since I purchased it around 1995 and it has been there ever since and I've moved home at least 3 times. I do not feel that I will never finish this book as each time I return to it, I gain a new insight into what was being said because as I mature, my understanding of what was written matures.

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

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