1895 The Works of William Shakespeare

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The 'Henry Irving Shakespeare', complete in eight volumes, and in the publisher's original decorative cloth bindings.

The complete works of Shakespeare, with notes and introductions to each play by British playwright F. A. Marshall and other Shakespearian scholars. 

Henry Irving was a Victorian English stage actor who established himself as representative of English classical theatre, becoming the first actor to be awarded a knighthood in 1895. 

Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume and further vignette illustrations throughout. Four plates to volume I, four to volume II, four to volume III, four to volume IV, four to volume V, three to volume VI, three to volume VII. Collated, complete.

Volume I - Love's Labour's Lost, The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet, King Henry VI - Part I. With a general introduction by Edward Dowden, professor of English Literature at the University of Dublin. 

Volume II - King Henry VI - Part II and Part III, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Richard II.

Volume III - King Richard III, King John, Merchant of Venice, King Henry IV - Part I and Part II

Volume IV - King Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

Volume V - All's Well that Ends Well, Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth 

Volume VI - Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, King Lear 

Volume VII - Timon of Athens, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, The Winter's Tale

Volume VIII - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, King Henry VIII, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Poems. With an index of subjects treated in the notes.