Set in clear, easy-to-read type, this budget, slim, lightweight volume
is a favourite study text with students. It also features a glossary of
obsolete words and words which vary from their ordinary established
meaning. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), the greatest English
dramatist and poet, was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. His surviving works
consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a
number of other poems. His plays have been translated into every major
language and are performed more often than those of any other
playwright. This volume contains the complete dramatic works of the
literary genius whose work has enthralled audiences since Elizabethan
times. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day,
but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the
nineteenth century. In his works you will find tragedy, comedy, history,
romance, fantasy, horror and a vast range of human experience that is
still poignant in modern times. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed
Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians worshipped him. In the
twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by
new movements in scholarship and performance. Today, his plays remain
extremely popular and are continually studied, performed and
reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the
world.