莎士比亚是英国文艺复兴时期杰出的戏剧家和诗人，代表作有四大悲剧《哈姆雷特》《奥赛罗》《李尔王》《麦克白》，喜剧《威尼斯商人》等和一百多首十四行诗。是“英国戏剧之父”，本·琼斯称他为“时代的灵魂”，马克思称他为“人类最伟大的天才之一”。被赋予了“人类文学奥林匹克山上的宙斯”。本书收录了莎士比亚的著名戏剧作品和诗歌作品。

In this volume the plays are arranged in the chronological order of their composition. Naturally, no claim to finality is made in a subject so beset with difficulties, but the sequence may be taken as fairly representing the general results of recent research. The time-honoured division into Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, dating from the First Folio and since universally followed, has been abandoned, in the belief that there were room and need for an edition that should enable readers to approach the body of the plays, not as a static monument of achievement, but as a vital and growing organism revealing the evolution of the poet’s personality and genius.

THE PLAYS

The First Part of 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 of 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

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Troilus and Cressida

Ali’s Well That Ends Well

Measure for Measure

Othello, the Moor of Venice

Macbeth

King Lear

Antony and Cleopatra

Coriolanus

Timon of Athens

Pericles

Cymbeline

The Winter’s Tale

The Tempest

King Henry the Eighth

THE POEMS

Venus and Adonis

Lucrece

Sonnets

A Lover’s Complaint

The Passionate Pilgrim

Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

The Phoenix and Turtle

The Glossary