The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Library Collection)
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A towering monument of world literature, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare gathers every play, sonnet, and poem produced by the greatest dramatist in the English language, spanning genres from soaring tragedy to razor-sharp comedy and sweeping history. The tragedies — among them Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear — chronicle the catastrophic downfall of complex, deeply human figures brought low by ambition, jealousy, and fate, while the comedies, including A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night, illustrate Shakespeare's unmatched gift for wit, wordplay, and romantic entanglement. The history plays reconstruct the turbulent reigns of English monarchs with both political acuity and dramatic urgency, and the 154 sonnets present an intimate meditation on love, time, beauty, and mortality that remains as emotionally resonant today as when first written. Shakespeare's language — simultaneously elevated and viscerally immediate — rewards both the casual reader and the devoted scholar, making this volume an inexhaustible treasury of human insight. No personal library is truly complete without this definitive collection of works that have shaped literature, theater, and culture across four centuries.
Author: William Shakespeare
Format: Hardback
Published: 2007, Wordsworth Library Collection
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A towering monument of world literature, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare gathers every play, sonnet, and poem produced by the greatest dramatist in the English language, spanning genres from soaring tragedy to razor-sharp comedy and sweeping history. The tragedies — among them Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear — chronicle the catastrophic downfall of complex, deeply human figures brought low by ambition, jealousy, and fate, while the comedies, including A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night, illustrate Shakespeare's unmatched gift for wit, wordplay, and romantic entanglement. The history plays reconstruct the turbulent reigns of English monarchs with both political acuity and dramatic urgency, and the 154 sonnets present an intimate meditation on love, time, beauty, and mortality that remains as emotionally resonant today as when first written. Shakespeare's language — simultaneously elevated and viscerally immediate — rewards both the casual reader and the devoted scholar, making this volume an inexhaustible treasury of human insight. No personal library is truly complete without this definitive collection of works that have shaped literature, theater, and culture across four centuries.