CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

List of illustrations

General Editors’ preface

Introduction

Why Shakespeare?

Shakespeare: the life

Shakespeare and the theatre

Shakespeare in print

Shakespeare’s reading and reading Shakespeare

Afterlife

Shakespeare’s Sonnets

A Lover’s Complaint

Edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones

Venus and Adonis

Lucrece

The Passionate Pilgrim

‘The Phoenix and Turtle’

Edited by F.T. Prince

All’s Well That Ends Well

Edited by G.K. Hunter

Antony and Cleopatra

Edited by John Wilders

As You Like It

Edited by Agnes Latham

The Comedy of Errors

Edited by R.A. Foakes

Coriolanus

Edited by Philip Brockbank

Cymbeline

Edited by J.M. Nosworthy

Hamlet

Edited by Harold Jenkins

Julius Caesar

Edited by David Daniell

King Henry IV, Part 1

Edited by A.R. Humphreys

King Henry IV, Part 2

Edited by A.R. Humphreys

King Henry V

Edited by T.W. Craik

King Henry VI, Part 1

Edited by Edward Burns

King Henry VI, Part 2

Edited by Ronald Knowles

King Henry VI, Part 3

Edited by A.S. Cairncross

King Henry VIII

Edited by Gordon McMullan

King John

Edited by E.A.J. Honigmann

King Lear

Edited by R.A. Foakes

King Richard II

Edited by Peter Ure

King Richard III

Edited by Antony Hammond

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Edited by H.R. Woudhuysen

Macbeth

Edited by Kenneth Muir

Measure for Measure

Edited by J.W. Lever

The Merchant of Venice

Edited by John Russell Brown

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Edited by Giorgio Melchiori

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Edited by Harold F. Brooks

Much Ado About Nothing

Edited by A.R. Humphreys

Othello

Edited by E.A.J. Honigmann

Pericles

Edited by F.D. Hoeniger

Romeo and Juliet

Edited by Brian Gibbons

The Taming of the Shrew

Edited by Brian Morris

The Tempest

Edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan

Timon of Athens

Edited by H.J. Oliver

Titus Andronicus

Edited by Jonathan Bate

Troilus and Cressida

Edited by David Bevington

Twelfth Night

Edited by J.M. Lothian and T.W. Craik

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Edited by Clifford Leech

The Two Noble Kinsmen

Edited by Lois Potter

The Winter’s Tale

Edited by J.H.P. Pafford

Bibliography

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