The Complete Works Of Shakespeare
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few names in the history of human civilization carry the weight and wonder of William Shakespeare's, and The Complete Works of Shakespeare places the full breadth of his genius between two covers. This landmark anthology gathers all 37 plays — from the soaring tragedies of Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, to the effervescent comedies of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night, through the sweeping history plays chronicling the wars of English kings — alongside the complete Sonnets and longer narrative poems, presenting readers with an unrivalled portrait of the Elizabethan and Jacobean world. Shakespeare's works stand as the supreme achievement of the English language, illustrating with unmatched psychological acuity the full spectrum of human experience: love and jealousy, ambition and guilt, justice and mercy, mortality and redemption. His verse — by turns lyrical, savage, tender, and sublime — has shaped every strand of Western literature that followed, and no serious library is complete without it. Whether you are encountering these works for the first time or returning to them as a lifelong devotee, this definitive collection serves as both an essential reference and an inexhaustible source of discovery, leaving one ever-curious as to which line, which scene, which character might resonate most profoundly on the next reading.
Author: William Shakespeare
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Spring Books
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few names in the history of human civilization carry the weight and wonder of William Shakespeare's, and The Complete Works of Shakespeare places the full breadth of his genius between two covers. This landmark anthology gathers all 37 plays — from the soaring tragedies of Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, to the effervescent comedies of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night, through the sweeping history plays chronicling the wars of English kings — alongside the complete Sonnets and longer narrative poems, presenting readers with an unrivalled portrait of the Elizabethan and Jacobean world. Shakespeare's works stand as the supreme achievement of the English language, illustrating with unmatched psychological acuity the full spectrum of human experience: love and jealousy, ambition and guilt, justice and mercy, mortality and redemption. His verse — by turns lyrical, savage, tender, and sublime — has shaped every strand of Western literature that followed, and no serious library is complete without it. Whether you are encountering these works for the first time or returning to them as a lifelong devotee, this definitive collection serves as both an essential reference and an inexhaustible source of discovery, leaving one ever-curious as to which line, which scene, which character might resonate most profoundly on the next reading.