William Shakespeare Complete Works the Comedies : Based on the First Folio of John Heminges and Henry Condell

A long awaited addition to Flame Tree's stunning hardcover collector's series, one of three stunning volumes of Shakespeare's Complete Works.

Based also on the new proofread and copy edited text of bestselling 2011 Flame Tree Illustrated Shakespeare, The Comedies sits alongside The Histories and The Tragedies to create a delightful three-set edition, with the works laid out in all their glory: clear, accessible and unfettered by fussy notes. The perfect match for The Decameron, The Divine Comedy and Don Quixote in Flame Tree's series of classic and epic tales, Shakespeare's Complete Works is one of the masterpieces of literature, a must for every home, a wonderful read to enjoy and reminisce, and a treasure-house of cultural knowledge, highlighting every aspect of humankind.

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Kiernan Ryan (Foreword) is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, an Emeritus Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. He is the author of Shakespeare, 3rd edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), Shakespeare’s Comedies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Shakespeare’s Universality: Here’s Fine Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2015), Shakespearean Tragedy (Bloomsbury, 2021) and the Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of King Lear (2015).