THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) Contents The Plays HENRY VI, PART 2 HENRY VI, PART 3 HENRY VI, PART 1 RICHARD III THE COMEDY OF ERRORS TITUS ANDRONICUS TAMING OF THE SHREW THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST ROMEO AND JULIET RICHARD II A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM KING JOHN THE MERCHANT OF VENICE HENRY IV, PART I HENRY IV, PART II MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING HENRY V JULIUS CAESAR AS YOU LIKE IT TWELFTH NIGHT HAMLET THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR TROILUS AND CRESSIDA ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL MEASURE FOR MEASURE OTHELLO KING LEAR MACBETH ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA CORIOLANUS TIMON OF ATHENS PERICLES CYMBELINE THE WINTER'S TALE THE TEMPEST HENRY VIII THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN The Lost Plays LOVE'S LABOUR'S WON CARDENIO DOUBLE FALSEHOOD The Sources LIST OF THE PLAYS’ SOURCES The Apocryphal Plays ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM THE BIRTH OF MERLIN KING EDWARD III LOCRINE THE LONDON PRODIGAL THE PURITAN THE SECOND MAIDEN'S TRAGEDY SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE THOMAS LORD CROMWELL A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY SIR THOMAS MORE FAIR EM MUCEDORUS THE MERRY DEVIL OF EDMONTON EDMUND IRONSIDE THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK VORTIGERN AND ROWENA The Adaptations TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE by Charles and Mary Lamb The Poetry THE SONNETS VENUS AND ADONIS THE RAPE OF LUCRECE THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE A LOVER'S COMPLAINT The Apocryphal Poetry TO THE QUEEN A FUNERAL ELEGY FOR MASTER WILLIAM PETER SONNETS TO SUNDRY NOTES OF MUSIC The Criticism PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE AND NOTES ON PLAYS by Samuel Johnson NOTES TO COMEDIES by Samuel Johnson NOTES TO TRAGEDIES by Samuel Johnson EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE Edited by D. Nichol Smith A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE by Algernon Charles Swinburne SHAKESPEARE by Samuel Taylor Coleridge CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS by William Hazlitt TESTIMONY OF THE SONNETS AS TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYS AND POEMS by Jesse Johnson ON SHAKESPEARE by Leo Tolstoy Extracts from WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by Victor Hugo SHAKESPEARE'S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE WORKING CLASSES by Ernest Crosby A LETTER by George Bernard Shaw The Biographies SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR by Nicholas Rowe SHAKESPEARE: HIS LIFE, ART, AND CHARACTERS by Henry Norman Hudson LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by Sir Sidney Lee SHAKESPEARE'S LOST YEARS IN LONDON by Arthur Acheson THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM SHAKESPEARE WROTE by Charles Dudley Warner Shakespeare’s Last Will and Testament Glossary of Elizabethan Language Delphi Classics 2011 Version 4 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Please note: when reading Shakespeare's plays and poetry on your eReading device, it is recommended to use as small a font size as possible, to allow the formatting of lines to show correctly. Interested in Shakespeare? Then you’ll love this collection: For the first time ever, the complete works of Shakespeare’s early great rival are available, with sources, introductions, beautiful images and many bonus texts. Buy for Kindle, click here Buy for Kindle App, click here The Plays Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon HENRY VI, PART 2 This history play is believed by many scholars to be Shakespeare’s first play, having been written in 1591, and it was only titled Part II following the production of a prequel two years later. This play focuses on the King Henry's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, the death of his trusted adviser Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, the rise of the Duke of York and the inevitability of armed conflict. As such, the play culminates with the opening battle of the war - the First Battle of St Albans. Although the Henry VI trilogy was not written in chronological order, the three plays are often grouped together with Richard III to form a tetralogy covering the entire Wars of the Roses saga, from the death of Henry V in 1422 to the rise to power of Henry VII in 1485. The success of these plays firmly established Shakespeare's reputation as a playwright. Interestingly, Henry VI, Part 2 has the largest cast of all Shakespeare's plays, and is seen by many critics as the best of the Henry VI trilogy, though sadly the play receives little attention elsewhere. Shakespeare's main source text for this play is available via this link . John Shakespeare – the writer’s father, a glove maker, who later became Mayor of Stratford CONTENTS DRAMATIS PERSONAE ACT I SCENE I. London. The palace SCENE II. The Duke of Gloucester's House. SCENE III. London. The palace. SCENE IV. Gloucester's Garden ACT II SCENE I. Saint Alban's. SCENE II. London. The Duke of York's Garden. SCENE III. A Hall of Justice. SCENE IV. A Street. ACT III. SCENE I. The Abbey at Bury St. Edmund's. SCENE II. Bury St. Edmund's. A Room of State. SCENE III. A Bedchamber. ACT IV. SCENE I. The Coast of Kent. SCENE II. Blackheath. SCENE III. Another part of Blackheath. SCENE IV. London. The Palace. SCENE V. London. The Tower. SCENE VI. London. Cannon Street. SCENE VII. London. Smithfield. SCENE VIII. Southwark. SCENE IX. Kenilworth Castle. SCENE X. Kent. Iden's Garden. ACT V. SCENE I. Fields between Dartford and Blackheath. SCENE II. Saint Alban's. SCENE III. Fields near Saint Alban's. DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING HENRY THE SIXTH. HUMPHREY, Duke of Gloucester, his uncle. CARDINAL BEAUFORT, Bishop of Winchester, great-uncle to the King. RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of York. EDWARD and RICHARD, his sons. DUKE OF SOMERSET. DUKE OF SUFFOLK. DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. LORD CLIFFORD. YOUNG CLIFFORD, his son. EARL OF SALISBURY. EARL OF WARWICK. LORD SCALES. LORD SAY. SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD, and WILLIAM STAFFORD, his brother. SIR JOHN STANLEY. VAUX. MATTHEW GOFFE. A Sea-Captain, Master, and Master's-Mate, and WALTER WHITMORE. Two Gentlemen, prisoners with Suffolk. JOHN HUME and JOHN SOUTHWELL, priests. ROGER BOLINGBROKE, a conjurer. THOMAS HORNER, an armourer. PETER, his man. Clerk of Chatham. Mayor of Saint Albans. SIMPCOX, an impostor. ALEXANDER IDEN, a Kentish gentleman. JACK CADE, a rebel. GEORGE BEVIS, JOHN HOLLAND, DICK the butcher, SMITH the weaver, MICHAEL, etc., followers of Cade. Two Murderers. MARGARET, Queen to King Henry. ELEANOR, Duchess of Gloucester. MARGARET JOURDAIN, a witch. Wife to Simpcox. Lords, Ladies, and Attendants, Petitioners, Aldermen, a Herald, a Beadle, Sheriff, and Officers, Citizens, Prentices, Falconers, Guards, Soldiers, Messengers, &c. A Spirit. SCENE: England. ACT I SCENE I. London. The palace [Flourish of trumpets: then hautboys. Enter the KING, GLOUCESTER, SALISBURY, WARWICK, and CARDINAL BEAUFORT, on the one side; the QUEEN, SUFFOLK, YORK, SOMERSET, and BUCKINGHAM, on the other.] SUFFOLK. As by your high imperial Majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne, and Alencon, Seven earls, twelve barons, and twenty reverend bishops, I have perform'd my task and was espous'd, And humbly now upon my bended knee, In sight of England and her lordly peers, Deliver up my title in the queen To your most gracious hands, that are the substance Of that great shadow I did represent: The happiest gift that ever marquess gave, The fairest queen that ever king receiv'd. KING. Suffolk, arise.—Welcome, Queen Margaret. I can express no kinder sign of love Than this kind kiss.—O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. QUEEN. Great King of England and my gracious lord, The mutual conference that my mind hath had, By day, by night, waking and in my dreams, In courtly company or at my beads, With you, mine alder-liefest sovereign, Makes me the bolder to salute my king With ruder terms, such as my wit affords And over-joy of heart doth minister. KING. Her sight did ravish, but her grace in speech, Her words yclad with wisdom's majesty, Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys; Such is the fulness of my heart's content.— Lords, with one cheerful voice welcome my love. ALL. [Kneeling] Long live Queen Margaret, England's happiness! QUEEN. We thank you all. [Flourish.] SUFFOLK. My Lord Protector, so it please your grace, Here are the articles of contracted peace Between our sovereign and the French king Charles, For eighteen months concluded by consent. GLOUCESTER. [Reads] 'Imprimis, It is agreed between the French king Charles and William de la Pole, Marquess of Suffolk, ambassador for Henry King of England, that the said Henry shall espouse the Lady Margaret, daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia, and Jerusalem, and crown her Queen of England ere the thirtieth of May next ensuing. Item, that the duchy of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be released and delivered to the king her father'— [Lets the paper fall.] KING. Uncle, how now! GLOUCESTER. Pardon me, gracious lord;