William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of
Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and
Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as
A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and
As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness.
This volume is a reprint of the highly regarded Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in the chronological order – as far as may be ascertained – in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's
Sonnets, as well as his longer poems
Venus and Adonis and
The Rape of Lucrece.
