WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness. This volume is a reprint of the highly regarded Shakespeare Head Press edition,and it presents all the plays in the chronological order - as far as may be ascertained-in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets and his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.

THE PLAYS

THB FIRST PART OP KING HENRY THE SIXTH                              

THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH                        

THE THIRD PART OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH

KING RICHARD THE THIRD

TITUS ANDRONICUS

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

LOVE’S LABOUR'S LOST

ROMEO AND JULIET

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

KING JOHN

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

KING RICHARD THE SECOND

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

THE FIRST PART OP KING HENRY THE FOURTH

THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE

  FOURTH

KING HENRY THe FIFTH

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

JULIUS CAESAR

AS YOU LIKE IT

TWBLIfTH NIGHT; OR.WHAT YOU WILL

HAMLET, PRINCE OP DENMARK

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WHLL

MEASURE POR MEASURE

OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE

MACBETH

KING LEAR

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

CORIOLANUS

TIMON OF ATHENS

PERICLES

CYMBBLINS

THE WINTER'S TALE

THE TEMPEST

KING HENRY THE EIGHTH

THE PORMS

VENUS AND ADONIS

LUCRECR

SONNETS

A LOVER'S COMPLAINT

THu PASSIONATE PILGRIM

SONNETS TO SUNDRY NOTES OP MUSIC

THS PHOENIX AND TURTLE

THE GLOSSARY