William Shakespeare, the complete works : illustrated.
- New York : Avenel, N.J. : Gramercy Books ; Distributed by Outlet Book Co., c1975.
- 1227 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
"Previously published under the title The complete works of William Shakespeare"--T.p. verso.
The Complete Arden Shakespeare Collector's Edition contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, including The Two Noble Kinsmen, which has only recently been widely accepted as partly written by Shakespeare, and also the Poems and Sonnets. The play and verse texts are edited by leading academics, in the light of current scholarship on the different versions of the text available. Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the three Arden Shakespeare General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to twentieth-century readers.