This single-volume edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare includes commissioned introductions to each of the plays and poems by a team of academics, including John Jowett and Philip Hobsbaum, with a textual introduction by the Shakespearean scholar Alec Yearling explaining the significance of the Alexander edition. This volume also includes a biography of Shakespeare by Germaine Greer and an introduction to Shakespeare's theatre by Anthony Burgess.
- ISBN10 0004704746
- ISBN13 9780004704746
- Publish Date 1 May 1994 (first published December 1951)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 May 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 1488
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk