The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Israel Gollancz William Shakespeare [0]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(1564-1616)
Contents
The Plays
HENRY VI, PART 2
HENRY VI, PART 3
HENRY VI, PART 1
RICHARD III
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
TITUS ANDRONICUS
TAMING OF THE SHREW
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
ROMEO AND JULIET
RICHARD II
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
KING JOHN
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
HENRY IV, PART I
HENRY IV, PART II
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
HENRY V
JULIUS CAESAR
AS YOU LIKE IT
TWELFTH NIGHT
HAMLET
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
OTHELLO
KING LEAR
MACBETH
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
CORIOLANUS
TIMON OF ATHENS
PERICLES
CYMBELINE
THE WINTER'S TALE
THE TEMPEST
HENRY VIII
THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN
The Lost Plays
LOVE'S LABOUR'S WON
CARDENIO
DOUBLE FALSEHOOD
The Sources
LIST OF THE PLAYS’ SOURCES
The Apocryphal Plays
ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM
THE BIRTH OF MERLIN
KING EDWARD III
LOCRINE
THE LONDON PRODIGAL
THE PURITAN
THE SECOND MAIDEN'S TRAGEDY
SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE
THOMAS LORD CROMWELL
A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY
SIR THOMAS MORE
FAIR EM
MUCEDORUS
THE MERRY DEVIL OF EDMONTON
EDMUND IRONSIDE
THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK
VORTIGERN AND ROWENA
The Adaptations
TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE by Charles and Mary Lamb
The Poetry
THE SONNETS
VENUS AND ADONIS
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE
THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE
A LOVER'S COMPLAINT
The Apocryphal Poetry
TO THE QUEEN
A FUNERAL ELEGY FOR MASTER WILLIAM PETER
SONNETS TO SUNDRY NOTES OF MUSIC
The Criticism
PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE AND NOTES ON PLAYS by Samuel Johnson
NOTES TO COMEDIES by Samuel Johnson
NOTES TO TRAGEDIES by Samuel Johnson
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE Edited by D. Nichol Smith
A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE by Algernon Charles Swinburne
SHAKESPEARE by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS by William Hazlitt
TESTIMONY OF THE SONNETS AS TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYS AND POEMS by Jesse Johnson
ON SHAKESPEARE by Leo Tolstoy
Extracts from WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by Victor Hugo
SHAKESPEARE'S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE WORKING CLASSES by Ernest Crosby
A LETTER by George Bernard Shaw
The Biographies
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR by Nicholas Rowe
SHAKESPEARE: HIS LIFE, ART, AND CHARACTERS by Henry Norman Hudson
LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by Sir Sidney Lee
SHAKESPEARE'S LOST YEARS IN LONDON by Arthur Acheson
THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM SHAKESPEARE WROTE by Charles Dudley Warner
Shakespeare’s Last Will and Testament
Glossary of Elizabethan Language
Delphi Classics 2011
Version 4
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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The Plays
Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon
HENRY VI, PART 2
This history play is believed by many scholars to be Shakespeare’s first play, having been written in 1591, and it was only titled Part II following the production of a prequel two years later. This play focuses on the King Henry's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, the death of his trusted adviser Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, the rise of the Duke of York and the inevitability of armed conflict. As such, the play culminates with the opening battle of the war - the First Battle of St Albans.
Although the Henry VI trilogy was not written in chronological order, the three plays are often grouped together with Richard III to form a tetralogy covering the entire Wars of the Roses saga, from the death of Henry V in 1422 to the rise to power of Henry VII in 1485. The success of these plays firmly established Shakespeare's reputation as a playwright.