Table of Contents

Introduction
Contemporary Allusions to Shakespeare
Commendatory Poems and Prefaces (1599-1640)
1: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
2: The Taming of the Shrew
3: The First Part of the Contention of the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster (2 Henry VI)
4: The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York and the Good King Henry the Sixth (3 Henry VI)
5: The First Part of Henry the Sixth
6: The Most Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
7: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
8: Venus and Adonis
9: The Rape of Lucrece
10: The Reign of King Edward the Third
11: The Comedy of Errors
12: Love's Labour's Lost
13: Love's Labour's Won: A Brief Account
14: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
15: The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
16: A Midsummer Night's Dream
17: The Life and Death of King John
18: The Comical History of The Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice
19: The History of Henry the Fourth (1 Henry IV)
20: The Merry Wives of Windsor
21: The Second Part of Henry the Fourth (2 Henry IV)
22: Much Ado About Nothing
23: The Life of Henry the Fifth
24: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
25: As You Like It
26: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
27: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
28: Troilus and Cressida
29: Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint'
30: Various Poems
31: Sir Thomas More
32: Measure for Measure
33: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
34: The Life of Timon of Athens
35: The History of King Lear: The Quarto Text
36: The Tragedy of Macbeth
37: The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
38: All's Well That Ends Well
39: Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Reconstructed Text
40: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
41: The Winter's Tale
42: The Tragedy of King Lear: The Folio Text
43: Cymbeline, King of Britain
44: The Tempest
45: Cardenio: A Brief Account
46: All Is True (Henry VIII)
47: The Two Noble Kinsmen
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About the Author

Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare series. He is Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham. Gary Taylor (PhD Cambridge) is Professor in the English Department at the University of Alabama. He has published widely on Shakespeare, editing and the relationship of race and ethnicity to the history of literatures in English. John Jowett is Associate General Editor of
the Oxford Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, Co-Editor of the Oxford Complete Works of William Shakespeare and co-author of Shakespeare Reshaped 1606-23 (Clarendon Press). He has recently completed
an edition of Richard III. His research interests include bibliography, editing and textual criticism, Renaissance theatre culture and print culture and Shakespeare's contemporary dramatists, especially Middleton. William Montgomery - biography unavailable

Reviews

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