Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Described in the Guardian on its first publication in 1951 as ‘a symbol in the history of our national culture’, the Collins edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, has long been established as one of the most authoritative editions of Shakespeare’s works, and was chosen by the BBC as the basis for its televised cycle of the plays. Now completely reset in a reader-friendly design, this edition includes a biography of Shakespeare by Germaine Greer, and an introduction to his theatre by the late Anthony Burgess
New introductions to the plays and poems
An introduction by Alec Yearling on the significance of the Alexander text, with Alexander’s own essay on the origins of the text in the First Folio and the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ quartos
A glossary of around 2500 entries explaining the meaning of obsolete words and phrases, with line references to each occurrence
Line numbering which relates to the standard concordances