The Complete Dramatic and Poetical Works of William Shakespeare · With a Summary Outline of the Life of the Poet, and a Description of His Most Authent by Shakespeare, William -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Preface General Introduction by Jonathan Bate

Shakespeare Our Perennial Contemporary Shakespeare’s Debut: The “Upstart Crow” The Back Story: Shakespeare of Stratford The Playhouses Plague and Poetry The Lord Chamberlain’s Man The Ensemble at Work “Dangerous Matter”: Politics and Religion The King’s Man The Great Feast of Languages Cult and Heresy The First Folio Restored

User’s Guide Preliminary Pages of the First Folio Foreword by Michael Boyd, Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company Comedies

The Tempest The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Merry Wives of Windsor Measure for Measure The Comedy of Errors Much Ado About Nothing Love’s Labour’s Lost A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Merchant of Venice As You Like It The Taming of the Shrew All’s Well That Ends Well Twelfth Night, or What You Will The Winter’s Tale

Histories

Tragedies

The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida The Tragedy of Coriolanus The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet The Life of Timon of Athens The Tragedy of Julius Caesar The Tragedy of Macbeth The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark The Tragedy of King Lear The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra The Tragedy of Cymbeline

Plays Not in the First Folio

Poems and Sonnets

Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece To the Queen “Let the Bird of Loudest Lay” (also known as “The Phoenix and Turtle”) Shakespeare’s Sonnets

A Scene for Sir Thomas More Charts

Acknowledgments Acknowledgments for Illustrations/Photographs Index of Plays and Poems Other Books by This Author