The Royal Windsor Edition of the Complete Works of Shakespeare

''Complete Works of William Shakespeare'' is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

. Some editions include several works that were not completely of Shakespeare's authorship (collaborative writings), such as ''

The Two Noble Kinsmen ''The Two Noble Kinsmen'' is a Jacobean tragicomedy, first published in 1634 and attributed jointly to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. Its plot derives from " The Knight's Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's '' The Canterbury Tales'', which h ...

'', which was a collaboration with John Fletcher; ''

Pericles, Prince of Tyre ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre'' is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio. It was p ...

'', the first two acts of which were likely written by

George Wilkins George Wilkins (died 1618) was an English dramatist and pamphleteer best known for his probable collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre''. By profession he was an inn-keeper, but he was also apparently invo ...

; or '' Edward III'', whose authorship is disputed.

Selected editions

The various editions of the ''Complete Works'' include a number of

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releases, as well as versions released from larger publishing companies. The ''Complete Works'' (especially in older editions) are often sought after by book collectors, and a number of binderies and publishing houses have produced leather bound and gilded releases for luxury book collecting. Both mainstream and academic publishing companies have released multiple editions and versions of their own collections of Shakespeare's work, often updated periodically. Multiple editors contribute to the processes of laying out the ''Complete Works'', and many times either the main editor, publishing company, or university's name is included in the title. (For instance, the ''Complete Works'' published by the Arden company is often referred to as the ''Arden Shakespeare'', and the edition produced by

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called the ''Yale Shakespeare''.)

Published editions

* Arden – ''The Complete Works (Arden Shakespeare)'', ''The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works'' ("

Arden Shakespeare The Arden Shakespeare is a long-running series of scholarly editions of the works of William Shakespeare. It presents fully edited modern-spelling editions of the plays and poems, with lengthy introductions and full commentaries. There have been t ...

") * Black Dog & Leventhal – ''William Shakespeare: The Complete Works'' (4 vol.) * CRW Publishing Ltd. – ''The Complete Works of William Shakespeare'' * Gramercy – ''William Shakespeare: The Complete Works'', ''William Shakespeare: The Complete Works eluxe Edition', ''The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: Complete Works'', ''The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotated'' *

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– ''The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Alexander Text'', ''Complete Works of William Shakespeare'' (Ed. 1–4) * Kittredge Shakespeare, ''The Complete Works of Shakespeare, edited by George Lyman Kittredge, Ginn & Co. 1936 (revised by Irving Ribner and reissued 1971) *

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– ''The Complete Works of Shakespeare'' (Ed. 1–7) * Modern Library – ''William Shakespeare: Complete Works'' *

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– '' The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works'' *

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– ''The Complete Pelican Shakespeare'' * Riverside – ''The Riverside Shakespeare'' (Ed. 1–2) (" Riverside Shakespeare") * Wordsworth Editions Ltd. – ''The Complete Works of William Shakespeare'', ''The Complete Works of William Shakespeare'' pecial/Royals ''The Complete Works of Shakespeare'' hildren's Classics ''Complete Works of William Shakespeare'' (3 vol.)

Academic editions

* "Cambridge Shakespeare" (

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, Doubleday, Garden City,

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, RH Value) * "

The Oxford Shakespeare ''The Oxford Shakespeare'' is the range of editions of William Shakespeare's works produced by Oxford University Press. The Oxford Shakespeare is produced under the general editorship of Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor. Precursor Oxford Univer ...

" * "Yale Shakespeare"

References

* ''The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Fifth Edition'', David Bevington, ed. Longman, 2003. * ''The Riverside Shakespeare'', Heather Dubrow, William T. Liston, Charles H. Shattuck, G. Blakemore Evans, Joseph Jay Tobin, Herschel Baker, Anne Barton, Frank Kermode, Harry Levin, Hallett Smith, Marie Edel, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

External links

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Selected editions

Published editions

Academic editions

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