The Folio Press Shakespeare

This collected edition presents William Shakespeare's plays, the comedies, histories, and tragedies first gathered in print in 1623. Comedies typically turn on disguise, marriage plots, and the green world of forests or islands. The histories follow English kings through medieval civil war toward a Tudor settlement. The tragedies follow figures such as Hamlet, Lear, Othello, and Macbeth as private error and public power destroy a household or a state. The set is a library of the dramatic canon, not a biography of the playwright and not a single play issued alone.

Bound in vegetable parchment with series design blocked in gold and one other colour. Six brown slipcases, each with a vegetable parchment label on the fore-edge. Folio Press.