The Works of William Shakespeare
The Works of William Shakespeare
Foremost in the Perseus Garner are the works of William
Shakespeare. Our primary edition is based on the famous
Globe Shakespeare, the one-volume version of
the great
Cambridge Shakespeare (1891-3) edited
by W. G. Clark, J. Glover, and W. A. Wright.
The Cambridge
Shakespeare was the reference edition well into the
twentieth century, and many important works of scholarship
are keyed to it.
The Garner also contains volumes from the magisterial
New Variorum Shakespeare Series, the
pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare's works begun by
Howard Furness in the nineteenth century and continuing to
this day. Each volume includes a fully collated edition of
Shakespeare's text with line-by-line commentary and an
extensive appendix containing textual histories, sources of
the work, actors' interpretations, and a wide sampling of
criticism. The New Variorum Shakespeare comprises twenty-two
volumes, of which three—
Antony and
Cleopatra,
Julius Caesar, and
Coriolanus—are presently included in
the Garner. Eventually the collection will contain the
entire series.
Of particular interest to textual scholars will be our
electronic facsimile of
the First Folio, the compilation of Shakespeare's
dramatic works published by fellow actors John
Heminges and Henry Condell in
1623. Through arrangement with the Special
Collections Department at Brandeis University, we have
scanned the entire seventeenth-century edition at very
high resolution and keyed each page image to act, scene, and
line number.
The Works of Shakespeare
| |
First Folio |
Globe Shakespeare |
New Variorum Shakespeare |
| Comedies |
| The Comedy of Errors |
F |
G |
|
| The Taming of the Shrew |
F |
G |
|
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
F |
G |
|
| Love's Labor's Lost |
F |
G |
|
| A Midsummer Night's Dream |
F |
G |
|
| The Merchant of Venice |
F |
G |
|
| The Merry Wives of Windsor |
F |
G |
|
| Much Ado About Nothing |
F |
G |
|
| As You Like It |
F |
G |
|
| Twelfth Night, or What You Will |
F |
G |
|
| The History of Troilus and Cressida |
F |
G |
|
| All's Well That Ends Well |
F |
G |
|
| Measure for Measure |
F |
G |
|
| Histories |
| The First Part of Henry the Sixth |
F |
G |
|
| The Second Part of Henry the Sixth |
F |
G |
|
| The Third Part of Henry the Sixth |
F |
G |
|
| The Tragedy of Richard the Third |
F |
G |
|
| The Life and Death of King John |
F |
G |
|
| The Tragedy of King Richard the Second |
F |
G |
|
| The First Part of Henry the Fourth |
F |
G |
|
| The Second Part of Henry the Fourth |
F |
G |
|
| The Life of Henry the Fifth |
F |
G |
|
| The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth |
F |
G |
|
| Tragedies |
| The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus |
F |
G |
|
| The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet |
F |
G |
|
| The Tragedy of Julius Caesar |
F |
G |
|
| The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
F |
G |
|
| The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice |
F |
G |
|
| The Tragedy of King Lear |
F |
G |
|
| The Tragedy of Macbeth |
F |
G |
|
| The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra |
F |
G |
N |
| The Tragedy of Coriolanus |
F |
G |
N |
| The Life of Timon of Athens |
F |
G |
|
| Romances |
| Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
|
G |
|
| Cymbeline |
F |
G |
|
| The Winter's Tale |
F |
G |
|
| The Tempest |
F |
G |
|
| Poems |
| Venus and Adonis |
|
G |
|
| Venus and Adonis |
|
G |
|
| The Rape of Lucrece |
|
G |
|
| Sonnets |
|
G |
|
| A Lover's Complaint |
|
G |
|
| The Passionate Pilgrim |
|
G |
|
| The Phoenix and Turtle |
|
G |
|
Reference Works
The philological and lexicographical scholarship on
Shakespeare is vast. We have used this scholarship to
create a "hyper-annotated edition" of Shakespeare that
will be of use to readers of all kinds. The Garner
includes two of the most well-known and often
consulted glossaries: Alexander Dyce's
Glossary of the Works
of William Shakespeare, and
C. T. Onions's
Shakespeare
Glossary. These reference works contain
thousands of glosses to Shakespeare's texts, which we have
hyperlinked to facilitate use. We will soon add the
indespensible
Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation
Dictionary by Alexander Schmidt.
