William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies

William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies PC MAC CD-ROM literature! Type: Application Platform: Windows/Mac Publisher: Octavo Released: 2000 Media: CD The first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623, seven years after his death, is probably the most famous literary printed book in the world. Not undeservedly: the massive single-volume, double-column edition of thirty-six "Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies" presents eighteen plays for the first time, and provides superior texts of four of the others, which had earlier appeared in separate smaller-format versions. Had the 1623 collection never been issued, we would now possess no trace of The Tempest, Macbeth, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, or The Winter's Tale.The volume itself (about 13 by 8 inches, 908 pages) is an imposing size and shape a mark of esteem in its day. This folio format bestowed on English drama the prestige, authorit