The works of Shakespeare : the text carefully restored according to the first editions, with introductions, notes original and selected, and a life of the poet
Criticism, interpretation, etc
11 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 18 cm
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v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor ; Twelfth night
v. 2. Measure for measure ; Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer night's dream ; Love's labour's lost
v. 3. Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; All's well that ends well ; Taming of the shrew
v. 4. Winter's tale ; Comedy of errors ; Macbeth ; King John
v. 5. King Richard II ; King Henry IV ; Henry V
v. 6. King Henry VI
v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Troilus and Cressida
v. 8. Timon of Athens ; Coriolanus ; Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra
v. 9. Cymbeline ; Titus Andronicus ; Pericles ; King Lear
v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello
v. 11. Life of Shakespeare. Historical sketch of the English drama before Shakespeare. Poems
Based on the Chiswick edition of 1826, reproducing even the wood cuts; the text and notes by Singer being revised. (Preface)
Same setting of type as Crosby & Nichols' edition published in 1863
Frontispiece based on the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare