Vintage The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare Vol 1 HC 1953 Drama Illus

Condition: Acceptable | Vintage illustrated hardcover with heavily worn dust jacket (creasing, tears, chips at spine/edges/corners). Red boards rubbed. Page edges tanned with scattered foxing. Interior clean and legible; bin

Author: William Shakespeare; editors W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright.

Title: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume One.

Format: English-language vintage hardcover in dust jacket, book club edition published by Nelson Doubleday, Inc., Garden City, New York.

Publication details: copyright 1953; printed in the United States of America; texts arranged in chronological order with introductions to each play adapted from the Shakespearean primer of Professor Dowden.

Genre and topic: drama, poetry and world literature; complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and narrative poems in a mid-twentieth-century reading and reference edition.

Contents and structure: Volume One includes tragedies, comedies and histories such as Titus Andronicus, the Henry VI trilogy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest and King Henry VIII, followed by narrative poems and sonnets plus a glossary.

Approach and features: plays presented in compact double-column pages with dramatis personae lists, act and scene divisions, introductions outlining dates, themes and historical context, and occasional textual notes.

Illustrations: line drawing frontispiece of the Globe Theatre and an illustrated dust jacket depicting the theatre and surrounding buildings.

Intended audience: young adults and adult readers, students, teachers and Shakespeare enthusiasts seeking a classic collected edition for study, performance preparation or leisure reading.

Identifiers: vintage Nelson Doubleday Complete Works of William Shakespeare book club edition, printed in U.S.A. 1953.

Keywords: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Volume One Nelson Doubleday 1953 vintage drama poetry plays hardcover dust jacket illustrated book.