Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Some editions include The Two Noble Kinsmen, a collaboration with John Fletcher, and some do not. Image File history File links Wikisource-logo. ... The original Wikisource logo. ... William Shakespeare (National Portrait Gallery), in the famous Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Two Noble Kinsmen is a play written in 1613 by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare in collaboration. ... John Fletcher (1579-1625) was a Jacobean playwright. ...
The Complete Works form one of the two books (the other being the Bible) "given" to guests on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, so that they cannot choose it. In their 2006/7 season the Royal Shakespeare Company committed to the performance of the Complete Works in a single year. In 1987 Adrian Hilton acquired a Guinness World Record for reciting the Complete Works non-stop, enduring 5 days without sleep. This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library of Congress. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme. ... Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. ... Adrian Hilton (born 10 January 1964) is a British Conservative politician who gained media attention during the 2005 general election. ... The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ...
References
Best, Michael. Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria. (Accessed 11/29/06) http://ise.uvic.ca/
The University of Victoria is providing proofread versions of the plays and poems. For all the plays (except Pericles) they have now on site quarto and/or folio versions. They intend to provide, in addition, modern edited versions, with annotations. Right now, just three plays and one of the poems have been so provided.
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Fifth Edition, David Bevington, ed. Longman, 2003.
After a useful introduction, provides well-glossed, conservatively-edited versions of each play, preceded by an informative essay, and with auxiliary matter (dating, text versions, sources, etc.) in appendices. The typeface is clean and good-sized, nor is the book unwieldy.
The Riverside Shakespeare, Heather Dubrow, William T. Liston, Charles H. Shattuck, G. Blakemore Evans, Joseph Jay Tobin, Herschel Baker, Anne Barton, Frank Kermode, Harry Levin, Hallett Smith, Marie Edel, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Long the standard, it boasts a glittering array of editors.
External links
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - plain vanilla text at Project Gutenberg.
King John | Richard II | Henry IV, Part 1 | Henry IV, Part 2 | Henry V | Henry VI, part 1 | Henry VI, part 2 | Henry VI, part 3 | Richard III | Henry VIII
All that is known of Shakespeare's youth is that he presumably attended the Stratford Grammar School, and did not proceed to Oxford or Cambridge.
Seven years later Shakespeare is recognized as an actor, poet and playwright, when a rival playwright, Robert Greene, refers to him as "an upstart crow" in A Groatsworth of Wit.
Shakespeare entertained the king and the people for another ten years until June 19, 1613, when a canon fired from the roof of the theatre for a gala performance of Henry VIII set fire to the thatch roof and burned the theatre to the ground.
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