Author(s): William Shakespeare

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The superb Jubilee Set, complete 8 volume set in two slip cases – set in Baskerville by Oxford University Press – printed at the Bath press on Caxton wove paper and bound by them in Oxford Library Buckram.A revised edition of the 1988 issue with corrections. Some of the frontispiece engravings have been reprinted, while others have been redesigned. Issued in two four-volume green titled slip-cases. The paper sides are illustrated with designs by Richard Shirley Smith.

BONUS ITEM 1: Shakespeare’s Life and World

BONUS ITEM 2: Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth.

Tragicomedies: Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, Two Noble Kinsmen.

Comedies: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, All s Well That Ends Well.

Early Comedies: Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Love s Labour s Lost, A Midsummer Night s Dream.

Classical Plays: Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus.

Histories I: King John, Richard II, Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two, Henry V.

Histories II: Henry VI, Part One, Henry VI Part Two, Henry VI Part Three, Richard III.

Romances: Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII.

All are fine copy. Second and Third printing.