The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Volume III: Tragedies (The ^AOxford Shakespeare) - Softcover

Shakespeare, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198182740 ISBN 13: 9780198182740

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1994

Synopsis

This is the complete set of Shakespeare's tragedies taken from the First Folio of 1623. The plays include: Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus; The First Part of Henry the Sixth; The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI); Hamlet; Henry V; Henry VIII; The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text; Julius Caesar; King Lear: The Folio Text; King Lear: The Quarto Text; Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus; Othello; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus; The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra; The Tragedy of Coriolanus; The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; The Tragedy of Julius Caesar; The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text; The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; The Tragedy of King Richard the Third; The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice; and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI).

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

An appealing collection of the great tragedies of Shakespeare, these plays express the full force of his dramatic and psychological insight, exploring the fatal flaws that lead to the fall of the mighty from good fortune. The hesitant vengefulness of Hamlet; the vain selfishness of Lear; the irrational jealousy of Othello; the cunning destructiveness of Iago; the romantic impulsiveness of Romeo; the murderous ambition of Lady Macbeth--all of these characters are burned into the collective psyche of world culture.

From the Back Cover:

Just why the history of Rome was so important to the Elizabethans, and how and to what ends Shakespeare imaginatively deployed that history, will be made a little clearer in the course of this introduction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0198182740
• ISBN 13: 9780198182740
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Wells Stanley, Taylor Gary, Jowett John