The Tragedies: Contains Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear

Volume 1 of the new Everyman Shakespeare, published in 1992, included the four major tragedies; Hamlet , King Lear , Othello and Macbeth . Volume 2 completes the survey of Shakespeare’s tragic output with Romeo and Juliet , Julius Caesar , Antony and Cleopatra , Coriolanus , Troilus and Cressida and Titus Andronicus . The edited texts of the plays are supplemented with bibliographies, a chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times, and an introduction in which Professor Tony Tanner examines Shakespeare’s evolution as a tragedian while also providing detailed discussions of the individual plays. The two-volume edition of the tragedies will eventually form part of a complete Shakespeare (plays and poems) in eight volumes.