The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Annotated): Shakespeare complete works annotated with more than 100 essays, critical studies, and lectures

by William Shakespeare

This collection covers his works from Shakespeare sonnets to his great tragedies and great comedies. Plus 100+ essays!THE COMEDIESA MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAMALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELLAS YOU LIKE ITLOVE’S LABOUR’S LOSTMEASURE FOR MEASUREMUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHINGTHE COMEDY OF ERRORSTHE MERCHANT OF VENICETHE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSORTHE TAMING OF THE SHREWTHE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONATHE TWO NOBLE KINSMENTWELFTH OR, WHAT YOU WILLTHE ROMANCESCYMBELINEPERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRETHE TEMPESTTHE WINTER’S TALETHE TRAGEDIESANTONY AND CLEOPATRAMACBETHOTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICETHE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENSTHE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUSTHE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARKTHE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESARTHE TRAGEDY OF KING LEARTHE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIETTHE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUSTHE HISTORIESKING JOHNKING HENRY THE EIGHTHKING RICHARD THE THIRDTHE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING RICHARD THE SECONDTHE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTHTHE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTHTHE LIFE OF KING HENRY VTHE FIRST PART OF HENRY THE SIXTHTHE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTHTHE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTHTHE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDATHE POETICAL WORKSTHE SONNETSA LOVER’S COMPLAINTTHE PASSIONATE PILGRIMTHE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLEVENUS AND ADONISTHE RAPE OF LUCRECEThis Shakespeare complete collection also includes analysis of the context of his times, his biography, the plot themes and characters, Shakespeare criticism, and so much more!

An Outline Of Shakespeare's LifeEnglish Drama Before ShakespeareThe Elizabethan TheaterShakespeare's Nondramatic WorksThe Sequence Of Shakespeare's PlaysShakespeare's Development As A DramatistThe Chief Sources Of Shakespeare's PlaysHow Shakespeare Got Into PrintThe Plays Of The First Period — Imitation And ExperimentSecond Period—Comedy And HistoryThird Period—TragedyFourth Period—Romantic Tragi-ComedyFamous Mistakes And Delusions About ShakespeareThe Substance Of Shakespearean TragedyConstruction In Shakespeare's TragediesEvents Before The Opening Of The Action In Hamlet.Where Was Hamlet At The Time Of His Father's Death?The Player's Speech In Hamlet.Hamlet's Apology To Laertes.The Exchange Of Rapiers.The Duration Of The Action In Othello.The 'Additions' To Othello In The First Folio.

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Published June 10, 2021

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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".