The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare gathers the surviving plays and poems of England's most celebrated dramatist into a single volume. It spans the full range of his output: comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night, histories tracing the English crown from King John through the Henrys and Richards, tragedies including Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello, and late romances like The Tempest and The Winter's Tale. Alongside the drama stand the narrative poems and the sequence of 154 sonnets, which open by urging a beautiful young man to marry and pass his beauty to an heir.

Across these works Shakespeare explores love, ambition, jealousy, power, mortality, and the gap between appearance and truth, giving voice to figures who feel strikingly modern. His command of English—its imagery, rhythm, and invented phrasing—shaped the language itself. Centuries on, this collection remains a cornerstone of world literature, endlessly performed, studied, and read.