This volume collects the complete writings of William Shakespeare (1564–1616, Wikipedia):
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COMEDIES
The Comedy of Errors
The Taming of the Shrew
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Love’s Labor’s Lost
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Much Ado about Nothing
As You Like It
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
The History of Troilus and Cressida
All’s Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
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HISTORIES
The First Part of Henry the Sixth
The Second Part of Henry the Sixth
The Third Part of Henry the Sixth
The Tragedy of Richard the Third
The Life and Death of King John
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
The First Part of Henry the Fourth
The Second Part of Henry the Fourth
The Life of Henry the Fifth
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
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TRAGEDIES
The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
The Tragedy of King Lear
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
The Life of Timon of Athens
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ROMANCES
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Cymbeline
The Winter’s Tale
The Tempest
The Two Noble Kinsmen
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POEMS
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
Sonnets
A Lover’s Complaint
The Passionate Pilgrim
The Phoenix and Turtle
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The texts follow the 1974 Riverside edition of his complete works, which should explain why some of the apocryphal plays are not included while a few poems which are not from Shakespeare’s hand are.
The formatting has been corrected and reflects the difference between prose and verse sections in his plays by using justified and left-aligned text. Fonts are embedded for small caps, spaced characters, and engraved headings.
From the myriads of illustrations for Shakespeare plays I went with the engravings John Boydell commissioned for his Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, an ambitious project initiated in 1786 resulting in a gallery of paintings, a folio of engraved prints, and an illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s works. I have included 150 pictures at the end of the scenes they illustrate, each noting the names of the painter and the engraver. The cover of this volume uses William Leney’s engraving of John Downman’s painting for As You Like It, act I, scene II.
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