Vintage Complete Works Of William Shakespeare Wordsworth Blue PB Drama Poetry

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Pre-owned vintage Wordsworth Editions softcover in clean, used condition. Blue and cream covers show light to moderate shelf and handling wear with surface scuffs, a few small marks and mild edge and corner rubbing. Spine shows light handling wear and the binding remains firm, with no loose or detached pages. Page edges display uniform age toning and some small handling marks but are even and intact. Interior pages are lightly toned but clean and legible throughout, free from writing, highlighting, underlining, tears or loose leaves. Item includes the single paperback volume only; no supplementary materials are included.

Author: William Shakespeare

Title: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Format: Vintage Wordsworth Editions softcover compilation

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Publication details: Wordsworth Editions Limited edition first published in 1996, reproducing the Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, text of Shakespeare's works.

Language: English

Original language: English

Genre: Drama; poetry; world literature & classics

Narrative type: Fictional dramatic works and poems presented in play-text format with stage directions and line numbers.

Country of origin: United Kingdom

Intended audience: Young adult and adult readers, students and general enthusiasts of Shakespearean drama and poetry.

Topics: Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, tragic and comic drama, English history plays, romantic tragedy, political intrigue, power and kingship, friendship and family conflict, pastoral comedy and narrative poetry.

Type: Single-volume unabridged collection bringing together Shakespeare's complete plays, sonnets and longer narrative poems in one reference edition.

Contents: Includes the full texts of the histories (such as the three parts of King Henry the Sixth, King Richard the Third and King John), comedies (including The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It and Twelfth Night), major tragedies (Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and others), together with Shakespeare's Sonnets and his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.

Details: Thick medium-format paperback with blue and cream patterned covers featuring a framed black-and-white portrait of Shakespeare on the front, white and silver title lettering, and a blue spine and back cover carrying series information and blurb; printed on cream paper with clear black serif type.

Illustrations: Includes a frontispiece and cover portrait of Shakespeare and small decorative devices around the title pages; interior text otherwise presented in a traditional double-column layout.

Features: Based on the highly regarded Shakespeare Head Press Oxford edition and arranging the plays in broadly chronological order of composition, this volume offers an affordable unabridged reference for study, performance preparation or general reading, with dramatis personae lists, act and scene divisions and stage directions clearly marked.

ISBN: 978-1-85326-895-3

Keywords: Complete Works of William Shakespeare Wordsworth Editions Shakespeare Head Press Oxford edition vintage blue paperback plays sonnets poems drama poetry English classics book.

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