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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare : with a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected

Print Book, English, 1857
Phillips, Sampson, and Company, Boston, 1857
8 volumes : portrait ; 24 cm
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v. 1. Life of Shakspeare. New facts regarding the life of Shakspeare. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth night ; Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing
v. 2. Midsummer night's dream ; Love's labour's lost ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew
v. 3. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV, part 1
v. 4. King Henry IV, part 2 ; Henry V ; King Henry VI
v. 5. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida ; Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus
v. 6. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles
v. 7. King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
v. 8. Venus and Adonis ; The rape of Lucrece ; Sonnets. Illustration of the sonnets. A lover's complaint ; The passionate pilgrim ; Verses among the additional poems to Chester's Love's martyr (1601). Illustrations of A lover's complaint, The passionate pilgrim, &c. Supplementary notice to the poems. Supplementary notice to the Roman plays
Edited by Oliver W.B. Peabody; based on Singer's edition, "carefully compared" with the folio of 1623; with the life by Dr. Symmons, revised, and "New facts regarding the life of Shakspeare", by Collier
Vol. 8 has title: The poetical works of William Shakespeare
Same setting of type as the edition published by Phillips, Sampson & Co. in 1854