This historic eight-volume edition conveys a sense of Shakespeare's plays in performance which has never been equalled.

Volume I: 1. Love's Labour's Lost; 2. The Comedy of Errors; 3. The Two Gentlemen of Verona; 4. Romeo and Juliet; 5. King Henry VI, Part I; Volume II: 1. King Henry VI, Part II; 2. King Henry VI, Part III; 3. Henry VI, condensed version; 4. The Taming of the Shrew; 5. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 6. King Richard II; Volume III: 1. King Richard III; 2. King John; 3. The Merchant of Venice; 4. King Henry IV, Part I; 5. King Henry IV, Part II; Volume IV: 1. King Henry V; 2. The Merry Wives of Windsor; 3. Much Ado About Nothing; 4. As You Like It; 5. Twelfth Night; Volume V: 1. All's Well That Ends Well; 2. Julius Caesar; 3. Measure for Measure; 4. Troilus and Cressida; 5. Macbeth; Volume VI: 1. Othello; 2. Antony and Cleopatra; 2. Coriolanus; 4. King Lear; Volume VII: 1. Timon of Athens; 2. Cymbeline; 3. The Tempest; 4. Titus Andronicus; 5. The Winter's Tale'; Volume VIII: 1. General introduction; 2. Hamlet; 3. King Henry VIII; 4. Pericles, Prince of Tyre; 5. Poems; Index.