The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works : The Complete Works (Paperback)

Preface; J.Bate.- General Introduction; J.Bate.- A User's Guide.- Preliminary pages of the First Folio.- Foreword; M.Boyd, Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company.- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: COMPLETE WORKS.- For each play.- Individual introduction by Jonathan Bate.- On-page footnote gloss which explains unfamiliar or obsolete words and classical, biblical or contemporary references where WS assumes audience knowledge.- Appendices of any significant passages that are not in First Folio.- 'Key Facts' box with: plot summary, major roles, date, linguistic medium, sources, textual notes.- COMEDIES.- The Tempest.- The Two Gentlemen of Verona.- The Merry Wives of Windsor.- Measure for Measure.- The Comedy of Errors.- Much Ado about Nothing.- Love's Labour's Lost.- A Midsummer Night's Dream.- The Merchant of Venice.- As You Like It.- The Taming of the Shrew.- All's Well that Ends Well.- Twelfth Night, or What You Will.- The Winter's Tale.- HISTORIES.- The Life and Death of King John.- The Life and Death of King Richard the Second.- The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry surnamed Hotspur.- The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, containing his Death and the Coronation of King Henry the Fifth.- The Life of Henry the Fifth.- The First Part of Henry the Sixth.- The Second Part of Henry the Sixth, with the Death of the Good Duke Humphrey.- The Third Part of Henry the Sixth, with the Death of the Duke of York.- The Tragedy of Richard the Third, with the Landing of Earl Richmond and the Battle at Bosworth Field.- The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth.- TRAGEDIES.- The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida.- The Tragedy of Coriolanus.- The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus.- The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.- The Life of Timon of Athens.- The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.- The Tragedy of Macbeth.- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.- The Tragedy of King Lear.- The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice.- The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra.- The Tragedy of Cymbeline.- PLAYS NOT IN THE FIRST FOLIO.- Pericles, Prince of Tyre, by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins.- The Two Noble Kinsmen, by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher.- POEMS AND SONNETS.- Venus and Adonis.- The Rape of Lucrece.- 'Let the bird of loudest lay' (also known as 'The Phoenix and Turtle').- 'To the Queen'.- Shakespeare's Sonnets.- A Scene from Sir Thomas More.- (Introduction, transcription and modernized text by Eric Rasmussen).- CHARTS.- Shakespeare's Works: A Conjectural Chronology.- Kings and Queens of England: from the History Plays to Shakespeare's Lifetime.- The Houses of Lancaster and York: A Genealogy.- The history behind the histories: a chronology.- The history behind the tragedies: a chronology.- Alphabetical Index of Plays and Poems