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The complete works of William Shakespeare, comprising his plays and poems, with a history of the stage, a life of the poet, and an introduction to each play: the text of the plays corrected by the manuscript emendations contained in the recently discovered folio of 1632

Print Book, English, [©1855]
G.F. Cooledge and Brother, New York, [©1855]
Biographies
lxxix, [1], 986 pages frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, facsimile 25 cm
5809802
Preface
History of the English drama and stage to the time of Shakespeare
Life of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's will
Introduction to the plays
Dedication [inserted in the folio of 1632] / John Heminge and Henry Condell
To the great variety of readers / John Heminge and Henry Condell
Commendatory verses
Tempest
Two gentlemen of Verona
Merry wives of Windsor
Measure for measure
Comedy of errors
Much ado about nothing
Love's labour's lost
Midsummer night's dream
Merchant of Venice
As you like it
Taming of the shrew
All's well that ends well
Twelfth night
Winter's tale
King John
King Richard II
King Henry IV, part 1
King Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
King Henry VI, part 1
King Henry VI, part 2
King Henry VI, part 3
King Richard III
King Henry VIII
Troilus and Cressida
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Hamlet
King Lear
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline
Pericles
Poems and sonnets
Notes to the emendations
Facsimile of Collier's Emendations ... End-papers contain extracts regarding Collier's annotated folio, etc. The history of the stage, life, etc., are abridged from Collier's edition, 1844