The Complete Shakespeare Collection

 

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Shakespeare's works are one of the luxuries of life.
On the way to reach the new millennium, we always remember this invaluable inheritance from the ancient society.
We have collected the complete works of Shakespeare (37 plays and 8 poems) in the electronic form. To facilitate the studies of our younger generation, as well as to let the older generation re-fresh their pleasant memories.  

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Electronic Book The Complete Shakespeare Collection The whole set:  9 flappy disks ($46. or £29.) Part I - Comedy & Poetry:  4 Disks ($30. or £19.) Part 2 - History & Tragedy:  5 disks ($30. or £19.) (Prices including VAT) Order from here

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Content Part 1: Comedy Dramas & Poetry. (Disk 1 - 4)   Part 2: History & Tragedy Dramas. (Disk 5 - 9)

Comedy  Dramas	History   Dramas	Tragedy  Dramas	Poetry
Disk 1:  All's Well That Ends Well   A Midsummer Night's Dream   As You Like It   Cymbeline  Disk 2:  Love's Labours Lost   Measure for Measure   Much Ado About Nothing   Pericles, Prince of Tyre   Taming of the Shrew   Disk 3:  The Comedy of Errors   The Merry Wives of Windsor   The Merchant of Venice   The Tempest   Troilus and Cressida   Disk 4:  Twelfth Night   Two Gentlemen of Verona   Winter's Tale	Disk 5:  Henry IV, part 1  Henry IV, part 2   Henry V  Henry VI, part 1   Disk 6:  Henry VI, part 2   Henry VI, part 3   Henry VIII   King John   Richard II   Disk 7:  Richard III	Disk 7:  Anthony and Cleopatra   Coriolanus   Hamlet  Disk 8:  Julius Caesar   King Lear   Macbeth   Othello   Disk 9:  Romeo and Juliet   Timon of Athens  Titus Andronicus	Disk 4:  A Lover's Complaint   Sonnets   Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music   The Passionate Pilgrim   The Phoenix and the Turtle   The Rape of Lucrece   Venus and Adonis       Funeral Elegy by W. S.

       

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The Life of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - The greatest poet of our world. His plays and poems have enriched the soul of human society.

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England on 23 April 1564.
Shakespeare's father, John, was a glover, wool-dealer and money lender, then became bailiff (or mayor) and justice of the peace. He married Mary Arden, a farmer's daughter, in about 1557. They had eight children, but only four sons and one daughter survived childhood. William was their eldest son and third child.

William Shakespeare attended a grammar or free school, founded in the reign of Henry VI at Stratford. There was nothing to suggest that he went to a university.
At the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, she was twenty-six and pregnant. A bond permitting their marriage was issued on 28 November 1582.

Their daughter Susanna was born in May 1583, and their twins Hamnet and Judith were born in February 1585.
No later than 1592, Shakespeare entered the theatrical profession and moved to London. His family remained in Stratford. Unfortunately his only son, Hamnet, died in August 1596 at the age of eleven and half.

Shakespeare was very much a theatre professional. It seems that he acted as businessman, actor, as well as writer and director.
In London, Shakespeare first joined the "Lord Strange" company, which was afterwards absorbed into the Lord Chamberlain's.
In 1599, the Globe Theatre was built and the company moved there. In 1613 they started acting at the Blackfriar's as well. These were the years of his great triumphs in his theatre life.
Shakespeare lived in various places in London. However he looked on Stratford as his real home, within a year of his son's death, he bought a large, three-storeyed house in Stratford which was called New Place.

Shakespeare died on 23rd April 1616. His widow died in 1623.

Shakespeare's daughter, Susanna, married a physician John Hall. Their daughter, Elizabeth was Shakespeare's only grandchild. Elizabeth inherited New Place and married Thomas Nash, her second
husband was John Bernard. She died in 1670. So Shakespeare's direct descendant line died out.

Nevertheless, Shakespeare's brilliant dramas and poems have ever since filled this world with glories.