Complete Works of Shakespeare, The, Portable Edition

The discipline's most student-friendly Shakespeare anthology is now available in a Portable Edition: a boxed set of four portable, paperback volumes organized by genre.     This convenient new format features all the content of the hardcover original, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5e, in four paperbacks packaged in a slipcase.  The four separate genre volumes can also be purchased on their own for use in specialized courses.     A balanced editorial approach, a highly respected editor, and proven apparatus combine to make Bevington’s the most accessible Complete Works available.  A prestigious editorial board provides state-of-the-art scholarship and interpretative balance on each play.  In-depth historical coverage helps students understand the cultural context behind each play, without dictating their reading of it.  Extensive notes and glosses give students the support they need to understand Elizabethan language and idiomatic expressions.

Table of Contents:
Preface   General Introduction The Comedies The Histories The Tragedies The Romances and Poems   Life in Shakespeare’s England London Theaters and Dramatic Companies Shakespeare’s Life and Work Shakespeare’s Language: His Development as a Poet and Dramatist Shakespeare Criticism The Comedies The Comedy of Errors Love’s Labor’s Lost The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Taming of the Shrew A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Merchant of Venice Much Ado About Nothing The Merry Wives of Windsor As You Like It Twelfth Night; or, What You Will All’s Well That Ends Well Measure for Measure  Troilus and Cressida The Histories The First Part of King Henry the Sixth The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth The Tragedy of King Richard the Third    The Life and Death of King John The Tragedy of King Richard the Second    The First Part of King Henry the Fourth    The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth    The Life of King Henry the Fifth The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth  The Tragedies Titus Andronicus Romeo and Juliet Julius Caesar    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark    Othello, the Moor of Venice    King Lear    Macbeth Timon of Athens   Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus The Romances Pericles Cymbeline The Winter’s Tale The Tempest The Two Noble Kinsmen The Poems Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece The Phoenix and Turtle A Lover’s Complaint Sonnets    Appendix 1: Canon, Dates, and Early Texts Appendix 2: Sources Appendix 3: Shakespeare in Performance    The Royal Genealogy of England   Maps   Bibliography: Suggestions for Reading and Research   Textual Notes   Glossary: Shakespearean Words and Meanings of Frequent Occurrence   Index

About the Author :
David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and in English Language & Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967.