Complete Works of William Shakespeare

[Joseph]

For the Shakespeare lover on your list. I have one of these. It's nice.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/barne...

[Everyman]

The price is certainly right, but I understand that it's just the text without any footnotes or line numbers. That may make it hard for anybody to really use unless they really know their Elizabethan English,. I have a copy without any notes my father left me, beautifully leather bound in three volumes, but I seldom look at because it is raw text. Frankly, I think most readers would be better off with a complete edition which does have basic notes. I have both the Riverside (Bevington, ed.) and the Yale complete Shakespeares, and both are quite good.

(I also have individual copies of all the plays, sometimes in several editions, which I use for general reading, but I keep a complete S by my desk for consulting so I don't have to go get an individual play when I want to check something.)