The works of William Shakespeare : the Cambridge text : with historical and analytical prefaces, comments, critical and explanatory notes, glossaries, life of Shakespeare, history of the early English drama and a complete index : illuminated
William Shakespeare (Author), Israel Gollancz (Contributor, Editor), Richard Grant White (Contributor, Editor), Henry Norman Hudson (Contributor, Editor), Edward Dowden (Contributor, Editor), Georg Brandes (Contributor, Editor), William Carew Hazlitt (Contributor, Editor), C. H. Herford (Contributor, Editor), Jameson (Contributor, Editor), Evangeline M. O'Connor (Author, Contributor), University Society (U.S.) (Copyright holder), International Shakespearean Society (Publisher)
Print Book, English, 1901
Warwick edition View all formats and editions
The International Shakespearean Society, [New York], 1901
plays (performing arts compositions)
13 volumes : color frontispieces, illustrations, color plates ; 21 cm
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Volume one: The tempest. The merry wives of windsor. A midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost
Volume two: Measure for measure . Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. As you like it
Volume three: Merchant of Venice. Two gentlemen of Verona. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night
Volume four: The taming of the shrew. The winter's tale. Hamlet
Volume five: Cymbeline. King John. Troilus and Cressida
Volume six: Romeo and Juliet. King Richard II. King Lear
Volume seven: Antony and Cleopatra. Othello. Henry IV, part I
Volume eight: Henry IV, part II. Henry V. Henry Vi, part I
Volume nine: Henry VI, part II. Henry VI, part II. Richard III
Volume ten: Coriolanus. Henry VIII. Macbeth
Volume eleven: Titus Andronicus. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. Pericles
Volume twelve: Life of Shakespeare. Poems and sonnets
Volume thirteen: Index to the works of Shakespeare
Title from comprehensive title page issued in each volume. Plays paged individually
The International Shakespearean Society was likely related to the University Society, an organization based in New York
"Warwick edition. In thirteen volumes. Limited to one thousand registered sets, of which this is number ..."--Comprehensive title page verso
Frontispieces are hand-colored lithographs
Volume thirteen title continues: " ... giving references by topics to notable passages and significant expressions, brief histories of the plays, geographical names and historical incidents, mention of all characters and sketches of important ones, together with explanations of allusions and obscure and obsolete words and phrases / by Evangeline M. O'Connor."
Index to the works of Shakespeare was originally published in by D. Appleton in 1887 (Appleton published an edition of Shakespeare's works in the same year, a twelve-volume set also called the "Warwick edition")