Shakespeare: The Complete Collection

by William Shakespeare

This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!

The Comedies:

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


The Romances:

Cymbeline
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Tempest
The Winter's Tale


The Tragedies:

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


The Histories:

The Life and Death of King John
The Life and Death of King Richard the Second
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
The first part of King Henry the Fourth
The second part of King Henry the Fourth
The Life of King Henry V
The first part of King Henry the Sixth
The second part of King Henry the Sixth
The third part of King Henry the Sixth
The Life of King Henry the Eighth


The Poetical Works:

The Sonnets
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
A Lover's Complaint
The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis
The Phoenix and the Turtle
The Passionate Pilgrim

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

5889 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1623

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

[Tamara · Rating 3 out of 5]

i am rating the book here, not Shakespeare's plays and sonnets; the book is an adequate collection, worth the $4 i paid for it, but there are far better collections out there, with lots of notes, annotations, and explanations.

Especially the plays, if you aren't used to seeing them performed, doing a cold read as offered here won't be enough to give you the sense of them.

I just wanted a dump book i could have on the kindle, which this book quite fits.

[Lian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Classic, what's not to love?

[Maddy M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really puts things in perspective. I was glad I read this while at Tufts. For example, if you're dating a mime who is cheating on you with another mime the entire time (emotionally, physically(?), definitely spiritually) you might be upset ... but at least you're not trying to avenge your father who was killed by your uncle who then married your mother and inadvertently ends up killing her while attempting to kill you after you accidentally caused your fiancee to commit suicide.

See what I mean?


Huge Caliban fan as well.

[William Schram · Rating 5 out of 5]

I finally finished reading all of this book. It took me a while, considering I started reading it sometime at the beginning of 2022. The plays varied in quality, with some being brilliant and memorable and others being mediocre. None of the plays deserved less than three stars for a rating.

The book is in kindle format, so it was easy to carry.

I enjoyed the book. Thanks for reading my review, and see you next time.

[Dr. Elena Rodriguez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Forever the Bane of my existence while simultaneously being some of the most beautiful words I've ever read

[Scheherazade · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read it.

[Eve · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sublime.

[Dick Friedman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great to have these all in one place for such a low price, but I may now look for an annotated version (to say nothing of an audiobook that will allow me to listen along).