William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Forum for Modern Languages remains the mo,st distinctive, and in many ways the best, one-volume Shakespeare currently available and will not be easily replaced.

Brian Vickers, Times Literary Supplement beautifully produced

Andrew Murphy, Around the Globe Pound for pound the most consistently interesting and provocative edition of Shakespeare ever published.

Independent Oxford has launched- the ballistic image does seem apt- a second single volume version of its revolutionary edition, which first excited and outraged Shakespeareans in 1986. Oxford's Complete Works has a solid, traditional look but explodes into cutting-edge controversy inside.

<br>Stanley Wells is Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham, the Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Vice-Chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Gary Taylor is Professor in the English Department at the University of Alabama. John Jowett is Associate General Editor of the Oxford Collected Works of Thomas Middleton and co-author of Shakespeare Reshaped 1606-23. William Montgomery works for the Guardian newspaper.<br>

Introduction; Contemporary Allusions to Shakespeare; Commendatory Poems and Prefaces (1599-1640); 1. The Two Gentlemen of Verona; 2. The Taming of the Shrew; 3. The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI); 4. The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI); 5. The First Part of Henry the Sixth; 6. The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus; 7. The Tragedy of King Richard the Third; 8. Venus and Adonis; 9. The Rape of Lucrece; 10. The Reign of King Edward the Third; 11. The Comedy of Errors; 12. Love's Labour's Lost; 13. Love's Labour's Won: A Brief Account; 14. The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; 15. The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; 16. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 17. The Life and Death of King John; 18. The Comical History of The Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice; 19. The History of Henry the Fourth (1 Henry IV); 20. The Merry Wives of Windsor; 21. The Second Part of Henry the Fourth (2 Henry IV); 22. Much Ado About Nothing; 23. The Life of Henry the Fifth; 24. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar; 25. As You Like It; 26. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; 27. Twelfth Night, or What You Will; 28. Troilus and Cressida; 29. Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint'; 30. Various Poems; 31. Sir Thomas More; 32. Measure for Measure; 33. The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice; 34. The Life of Timon of Athens; 35. The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text; 36. The Tragedy of Macbeth; 37. The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra; 38. All's Well That Ends Well; 39. Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Reconstructed Text; 40. The Tragedy of Coriolanus; 41. The Winter's Tale; 42. The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text; 43. Cymbeline, King of Britain; 44. The Tempest; 45. Cardenio: A Brief Account; 46. All Is True (Henry VIII); 47. The Two Noble Kinsmen; Select Glossary