The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

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Nobody else, unless you believe the wild theories …more Yes, this is the whole thing. Nobody else, unless you believe the wild theories that say it was all secretly the work of Sir Francis Bacon I don't. Are there line numbers? Sam There are many, many editions of Shakespeare's complete works, and lots of them have line numbers, but some of them don't.

If you absolutely need an …more There are many, many editions of Shakespeare's complete works, and lots of them have line numbers, but some of them don't. If you absolutely need an edition that has line numbers then may I suggest the Norton edition of Shakespeare's complete works? It is the whole shebang with line numbers, helpful explanatory essays, and extensive annotations and textual notes. The binding leaves a little to be desired though, so you are making a little bit of a trade off for the breadth of content, so if you want a lovely leather bound one then you might have to do a bit of research.

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Lists with This Book. I plan to read many Shakespeare plays this summer. It might take me a few years to do it, but I shall get there eventually! View all 8 comments. Have I read this book? Only part of it. Even so, why argue about that rating? See bottom of review for a list of the plays in order What follows is little more than the GoodReads description of the edition pictured. But I feel I can do that, since I wrote the description.

This tome includes all 37 of Shakespeare's plays, as well as his poems and sonnets. It was produced "for college students in the hope that it will help them to understand, appreciate, and enjoy the works for themselves. It is not i Have I read this book? It is not intended for the scholar Introductory Material 90 pages: The Universality of Shakespeare 2.

Records of the Life of Shakespeare 3. The Elizabethan Playhouse 6. The Study of the Text 7. The Development of Shakespeare's Art 8. Shakespeare and the Critics 9. Shakespearean Scholarship and Criticism Plates: Generally in order of writing. Each play has its own Introduction Footnotes at the bottom of the columns. This makes them both handy and unobtrusive. Liked by this reader. Appendices follow The Poems: I don't know how it compares with other editions of Shakespeare's works. It is the one I have. Here are Shakespeare's 37 plays, in the order presented in this edition.

This is the best guess at the time the edition was printed of the order in which they were written, when on my no-longer-young journey I read the play, and links to my review. It will take several years for this quest to be completed. The Comedy of Errors 6. The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus 7. The Two Gentlemen of Verona 9.

Love's Labor's Lost The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet The Merchant of Venice The Life of King Henry the Fifth Twelfth Night; or What You Will The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark The Merry Wives of Windsor The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice Measure For Measure The Tragedy of King Lear The Tragedy of Macbeth The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra The Tragedy of Coriolanus Timon of Athens The Winter's Tale The Once and Future King T.

White's Arthurian fantasy Random review: Understanding Power Noam Chomsky Previous library review: The world as stage Bill Bryson View all 23 comments. Mar 22, Manny rated it it was amazing Shelves: Celebrity Death Match Special: The Complete Works of Shakespeare versus Deep Learning Ubergeek Andrej Karpathy had the bright idea of training a recurrent neural network on the complete works of Shakespeare.

It produces remarkably good output for an algorithm which not only knows nothing about Shakespeare, but can't even tell a noun from a verb!

Here is the first of the two samples he gives: Alas, I think he shall be come approached and the day When little srain would be attain'd into bein Celebrity Death Match Special: Alas, I think he shall be come approached and the day When little srain would be attain'd into being never fed, And who is but a chain and subjects of his death, I should not sleep. They are away this miseries, produced upon my soul, Breaking and strongly should be buried, when I perish The earth and thoughts of many states. Well, your wit is in the care of side and that. They would be ruled after this chamber, and my fair nues begun out of the fact, to be conveyed, Whose noble souls I'll have the heart of the wars.

Come, sir, I will make did behold your worship. The examples are impressive: View all 15 comments. Feb 08, Vanessa J. It all ended so fast. I feel like it's just January, but look at the calendar - it's December! You surely remember earlier in the year when I said I had put a challenge for myself.

This was the Shakespeare Challenge, in which I had to read all the works known by William Shakespeare. I finally read them all! It started in January. I was bored and I didn't know what to read. One day I went to the library and checked out a book that contained 4 of Shakespeare's best plays. I read it and It all ended so fast. I read it and soon after I told myself I needed to read more of his works. Thus, I got another book: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

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The task of reading Shakespeare's works was not as difficult or tedious as it seems to be. It took me long because I was most of the time busy and didn't have time to read, so I read them in-between classes and studying.

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To my surprise, I loved some of the plays, others disturbed me, and others made me laugh out loud. The first plays I read were the most popular ones, and were the ones I enjoyes the most. The tragedies worked better for me than the comedies, with the exception of Romeo and Juliet, which I did not despise but didn't love either. About the historical plays, I can say they were harder to read because the tone was more serious and they were not meant to entertain, but they were worth reading all the same.

As for the poems, they were good too. They were beautiful, and this is said by someone who is not used to read poetry. I tell you, this challenge is one of the best I've put to myself. For next year, I'm not sure if I'll put more aside the Goodreads one because of my studies, but I certainly will read more classics for example something by Jane Austen. Apr 23, midnightfaerie is currently reading it.

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

I understand now why I have such a hard time reading Shakespeare. It's not that it's hard to understand. There are enough translations and self help guides to get you through the plot of any of the plays. And once I started reading and translating, I started to get the hang of it, and had fewer words and phrases that I had to look up. No, it's not that. Simply put, it's a play, and not meant to be read. I know there are some who might disagree with me, however, that's my opinion.

I revel in the I understand now why I have such a hard time reading Shakespeare. I revel in the complacency of description and plays don't have it. It is just dialogue. There is nothing to tell you infinitely how a character is feeling or what they're thinking. There's nothing to tell you how the set looks besides a sometimes small minimalist description. There is nothing to tell how a character looks, are they beautiful? Yes, I understand you can infer many of these things from the dialogue which is what you're supposed to do, but to me, there is great room for interpretation, unlike a book, which will describe it for you.

Also, after doing a little reading on Shakespeare and the republishing of his works, it seems there are many different conflicting sources of original text, which is why you often find various works with different scripts. I truly believe that Shakespeare meant these to be seen on stage, not read from a page. It's where his genius is best seen and appreciated. That being said, I plan to read each play, then watch a movie rendition of each one. I would also like to list the reasons here that Shakespeare's works are classics instead of going into the same points repeatedly as I review each work.

They are classics, I can't dispute it, whether or not I enjoy each individual play or not. And I do believe this is the first time that an author has gotten 8 out of 10 of my Definitions for a Classic. He's been around through the ages and I have no doubt we'll be acting out his plays on the moon. His stories will pull you in every time. They focus on the aspects of human nature that we all can relate to, so you care about the outcome of the characters. He has an unusual literary style that has made him popular throughout history. New Style of Writing: Now I'm stretching it with this one, I know, because anyone who has studied literature knows Shakespeare wasn't the first to use Iambic Pentameter, however I believe he was the first to make it popular.

You ask anyone to tell you the first author that comes to mind when you say Iambic Pentameter and they're not going to say Chaucer, they're going to say Shakespeare. There isn't a person on the planet who doesn't know who Shakespeare is. To say his works are controversial is an understatement. The amount of times he's been banned is enough to put him in this category. The reasons for his censorship are diverse but range from vulgarity, to sex, to politics, to excessive use of freedom. Underlying themes run rampant throughout his works and offer a wide variety of human conditions.

Anything from betrayal and love to honour and glory can be seen in his works.

Shakespeare has had influence in every aspect of society from helping to shape the English language It's all greek to me and tongue-tied - said to have added over words to the English language to politics. Dangers of introducing foreign politics into a city ClassicsDefined.



View all 6 comments. So far, I've read about three pages, or to the end of scene one and what I understand is that while I can barely understand the language, I can get the general gist of what's going on or at least I think I can. There are many instances where God is Got, better is petter, brings is prings, very is fery, good is goot, and w is left off the beginning of a couple of words, all of which makes for confusing and slow reading.

I think I understand what was being discussed in scene one - Shallow has accused Falstaff of assault, breaking and entering and poaching of his deer - but it was a little difficult to pull that information out of all those difficult and misspelt words. Professor Bate's who is the scholar running the course comment that Elizabethan's weren't concerned with spelling is certainly proven correct by the writing in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Is he just being spiteful? Or is he delusional enough to really believe that they 'gave him good eyes'? I really had trouble with the language throughout the play and had to refer to SparkNotes at least once a page. I could see where the dialogue might be funny, but I think it might work better as an acted out play rather than a read one.

I feel like I would have enjoyed The Merry Wives of Windsor a lot more if I had been able to imagine what was happening in the scene better. Our next play to study is A Midsummer Night's Dream. This is one of the plays I studied at school, I think I was in year 10 literature, so about I remember enjoying it and the movie with Calista Flockhart and Kevin Kline, also the Balanchine ballet.

I think I might have to make a concerted effort to get my hands on one or both of these, watching the action really does help my comprehension of the dialogue. Having read it before and seen the movie surely made a difference and "Yay! A movie of this week's play, Henry V , is proving more difficult to acquire.

No luck with my pay tv service, iTunes, Hoyts Kiosk, or my library system. I've heard the quote "Once more unto the breach, my dear friends PopSugar Reading Challenge: View all 3 comments. Please note, this is a review of this particular edition of the "Complete Works of William Shakespeare" from For reviews of various individual plays by Shakespeare, please see my shelves. The top edge of the volume is gilt-edged. It has a soft cover with a burgundy leatherette finish, and gold lettering, plus a gold embossed design o Please note, this is a review of this particular edition of the "Complete Works of William Shakespeare" from It has a soft cover with a burgundy leatherette finish, and gold lettering, plus a gold embossed design of the Shakespeare Coat of Arms.

Not many people know that William Shakespeare received a Coat of Arms from the English Government, to signify that he and his family were now a part of the upper class. Unfortunately, since he did not have a son to carry on the honour, the Coat of Arms was not carried on through the family name. Here is a copy of the Shakespeare Coat of Arms: The motto is in medieval French: This volume is clearly intended to be a useful compact volume of Shakespeare's complete works.

It can be held in one hand, and is comfortable to handle, considering it that it contains so many works. The frontispiece shows an engraving of "The Stratford Shakespeare": The print, as one would expect, is quite small, but comparatively clear. The "special introductory matter" mentioned, consists of an introduction by St. There are also just a few double spread colour plates on glossy paper. There is also a painting by Daniel Maclise, a portrait painter and popular illustrator to Dickens's works, and one by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, who specialised in classical subjects, particularly of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire.

Since there are only eight of them, they are sadly not very noticeable in a volume of over pages, but they are attractive to come across in context: Holman Hunt This must have been quite an attractive volume originally. It is still a nice one to have, as it presents all the works in a way which is quick to refer to.

It is nicer than an average modern "Complete Shakespeare" volume, and easier to use too. It has some history, but is still not my first choice for ease of reading each individual play. However, it was my first introduction to Shakespeare, as I found it in a church jumble sale for a few pennies when I was a child. I remember the occasion well, being convinced I had found a very important work - a real bargain! It therefore has some sentimental value for me personally. I seem to remember there was a yellow-gold silken ribbon bookmark attached at the top As today is 23rd April , and the quatercentenary, years of Shakespeare's death, it seemed a good time to have a look at my oldest book by him, even though it is not yet quite a hundred years old.

However, if you would like to read my review of a particular play by William Shakespeare, please see my shelves for these. What an exquisite edition of one of the greatest works in the Western canon. Armed with an authoritative editorial team, Professor Jonathan Bate has reworked all of Shakespeare's plays, as well as his poems. The footnotes are extensive and cover all meanings of words including the more salacious ones that many school texts leave out , while also providing informative historical and contextual information. This edition seeks to give us every word attributed to Shakespeare although, as it points What an exquisite edition of one of the greatest works in the Western canon.

This edition seeks to give us every word attributed to Shakespeare although, as it points out at length, we can't really know what he wrote: Any work of the Bard's is distorted in some way. Shakespeare Collection Boxed Set. Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Is this feature helpful? Thank-you for your feedback.

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Showing of reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Little conflicted about my star-rating: I had bought this for my Year 10 high school kid - a lot of time was spent by me going through sections of this book and distilling it into smaller, more easily "digestible" parcels of information. Nice enough to have everything in one book. Has a table of contents, plays arranged more or less chronologically, though there is no line numbering every 5, 10, 20 lines or whatever although the top of the pages indicate the range of lines shown.

My biggest problem is with the printing itself, and I don't know if that would be specific to my copy of the book or to all book. There are spots where too much ink was injected, and spots where there's not enough ink to the point where I have to look up online a word that has 3 of its 5 letters completely missing, ruining the point of having a book in the first place. There are also a number of noticeable typos, with France becoming "Ftance" and Bianca becoming "Lianca". What a great way to read and understand a Shakespeare play.

I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was a fast read. No Fear puts the original text on one side of the page and the opposite page has the modern language translation. There is no need to review Romeo and Juliet itself, for that it is surely a world classic that most people have heard of. I think that this Oxford Edition has very thoroughly researched introductory notes and footnotes.

While it is always good to consider juxtaposing the interpretations put forth in this edition with those in others and of course, your own interpretations for time to time , I am glad that my high school English class chose to use this one as the standard. One person found this helpful. This is just one of the volumes from this set of various collected works and my review is the same for all of them -- love the complete and unabridged collection -- awesome introductions -- beautiful books to look at -- the outer box is also gorgeous -- the print is a little smaller than most books but still crystal clear and clean.

If those words don't send chills up your spine then you are a Philistine. Great version of the play - copious clever and detailed notes. Single column reading and the notes are on the page they reference. My favourite Shakespeare play. Arden editions provide brilliant introductions, thorough notes, and other useful resources. A great version for students of English Literature and dramaturges.

My binding is tight and perfectly stitched, and the many many designs cleanly printed on the ivory matte paper. See all reviews. Want to see more reviews on this item? Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Track your recent orders Use Your Account to view or change your orders. Visit the Help Desk.