This 2021 collection from Odham and Blackwell compiles every play and poem attributed to William Shakespeare. The volume contains thirty-eight dramas, ranging from the political assassinations in Julius Caesar to the magical occurrences in The Tempest. It includes the complete cycle of one hundred and fifty-four sonnets and several long narrative poems. Within these pages, readers find specific narratives concerning the Prince of Denmark’s indecision, the fatal rivalry between the Montagues and Capulets, and the psychological descent of Macbeth following a regicide.
Students of literature and theater practitioners use this edition to analyze early modern English syntax and dramatic structure. It serves as a primary reference for those studying iambic pentameter or the shift from revenge tragedies to pastoral comedies. Readers gain a direct understanding of how Elizabethan social hierarchies, legal systems, and military conflicts influenced sixteenth-century storytelling. By finishing this volume, one acquires a technical vocabulary of literary devices and a chronological perspective on the development of theatrical performance and poetic form.
Insights from The Complete Works of Shakespeare
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”
King Lear is terrifying because it shows how fast status vanishes. One day you are a king. The next you are screaming at a storm in a field.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.”
Prospero throwing his staff away at the end of The Tempest feels like a surrender. He finally realized that controlling people isn't the same as being loved.
“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado are the only couple that actually makes sense. They trade insults because honesty is better than fake poetry.
“And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, I am determined to prove a villain.”
Richard III is the most honest villain in history. He tells you exactly how he will ruin you and then you watch him do it.
- Published
- 2021
- Publisher
- Odham and Blackwell
- ISBN
- 9781719599399
- Language
- EN
Quotes by William Shakespeare
More →There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Hamlet
What's past is prologue.
The Tempest
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Julius Caesar
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