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 0517163020
- ISBN13 9780517163023
- Publish Date 1 November 1980 (first published December 1951)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Random House Value Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 1227
- Language English