wonderful
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This book represents a wonderful opportunity to enjoy shakesperare for those whose mother tongue is not english. The effort put in the edition is clearly shown form the very first page, also the introductory notes on each play.
However, I would have liked to find longer and deeper comments on the plays and footnotes really on their footpage, rather than at the very end of the book, that makes it more complicated to follow.
However, it can be recommended to anyone who likes literature in the original.
Shakespeare has and will always be a pleasure to read
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The complete works of the lord, our god.
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This breathtaking read, the complete works of my hero and Lord William Shakespeare. In a truly breathtaking read the Lord places all his works, making this the bible for all avid Shakespeare fans, as so many of them are. Its all there in front of you waiting to be copied out and memorised. Only the Lord could produce work like this. I BELIEVE in Shakespeare. I LOVE Shakespeare. Please buy this book and save yourselves. This is NO.1 of the 126,458 books I have read and copied out. Praise Shakespeare. Buy his FULL WORKS for hours of reading pleasure. Skip school, work, homework, anything just to read it, reading Shakespeare is a fine excuse to miss these things. It worked for me. Buy it at this very reasonable price and then you need make no excuses to keep it and copy it out. I believe in William Shakespeare and his miracle powers. Do You?
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classic
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though this is a heavy book, the plays are classic and this ensure that this book is a worthy investment. Will be read time and time again and can be appreciated by all ages. This is an excellent purchase if you are planning on studying English at any point as you can guarantee Shakespear will come up at some point of any english course. It has a helpful glossary to explain certain words.
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Outstanding!
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When I received the Complete Works of William Shakespeare for my birthday from my Great Aunt I was initially intimidated by a combination of its size, bulk and the plethora of footnotes present on a given page. I pondered: When would I ever actually use such a mammoth text?, and resolved to keep it on the shelf as a symbol of my cultured self! However one day, upon returning from my school, I was appalled to realise that I had forgotten my edition of "Much Ado About Nothing" and had an exam on it the following day. In desperation I searched for notes and passages on the Internet but, alas, with no tangible results. Suddenly I remembered the Complete works of William Shakespeare and hauled it down with much doubt in my mind. I scanned the frightfully long table of contents without enthusiasm and turned my page to Act 1 Scene 1. Upon scanning the first couple of scenes I was immediately struck by the concise, intelligent and informative footnotes which seemed to compel me onwards rather than provide for a halting reading of the play as did my personal edition of the play. The added text by the authors and editors provided me with a substantial analysis of the key themes of the play and even gave instances in which each underlying theme is revealed in the actions and lines of the characters. I came into the testing room confident the next day and scored top marks in my class for our test (which included, paraphrasing, analysing key themes and an in class five paragraph essay). I am so impressed by this collection that I no longer bother to bring Shakespeare home with me from school as this edition provides me with a more than sufficient, if not generally more thorough, presentation of each of his works. I highly recommend this excellent collection.
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Essential
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Shakespeare's works have received more commentary than the Bible, and, like the Bible, represent the core of the Western canon. There is a remarkable, uncanny universalism about the writing- it does not confine itself one place, people or time. Perhaps Shakespeare's most remarkable quality is that he managed to convey human thought in a way that had not been expressed before, and in a way that has not been expressed since. Everything we want to say, but cannot find the words for, is here. The Bard anticipated our thoughts at every turn, and the audience fully feels the emotions and experiences of the characters. His contemporary Ben Jonson suggested that Shakespeare was 'Not for an age but for all time'- it is a claim that has held true. Like the work Homer, Dante and Tolstoy (among others) there are words and ideas here that broke new literary ground, and form the heart of a nation's culture. Essential.
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