for $20 and I couldn’t be happier.
Thank you, Barnes and Noble.
Fantastic, congratulations. I’ve noticed that many of the major chains have very reasonably priced editions. Are yours annotated?
Sir Rhosis
No, though it does have a glossary in the back. The book itself is very nice, hard cover, leatherbound and such.
Well, they should…the works have long since passed into the public domain.
It’s possible to find them online in numerous locations, but I have to weigh in as preferring to read The Bard on paper, and anyone who has a volume of Shakespeare’s ouerve is not only a good cobber in my book but is also well prepared to deal with home intruders. I’ve both a leatherbound Complete Works and seperate copies of my more favorite plays, as well as Shakespeare’s Insults, an indexed collection of The Bard’s better deprecations.
Stranger
First time Shakespeare-owners are so sweet. Then the book starts to teeth and even worse, to walk. Then you have another. What’s really hard is when the number of Shakespeares in the house first outnumbers the readers–before that, someone could keep tabs on each one at once…
sigh. I have three, myself.
Well in my English class we’re studying The Merchant of Veince and earlier we did Romeo and Juliet and I was just drawn in so when I saw the complete works I just had to get it.
It will not be long before you are searching out an annotated version of the complete works. Then, you’ll be working up a library of DVD and VCR versions of the plays. After a while, you’ll have annotated versions of each of your favorite plays, plus a volume or two on the sonnets.
When you have a whole shelf or two devoted to him, let us know. 
Hah, yeah I know… First I’m going to have to get an actual book case, I’m so cramped for space I’ve just been putting books on the floor with book ends.
Mine’s unfortunately in storage. Was about six inches tall, four and a half wide, and five inches deep. Paperback, two columns of text on each page. Included his sonnets and poems.
But admittedly, I have so far only read Hamlet, Henry V, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice…and a Midsummer’s Night Dream maybe (can’t recall.) I wasn’t sure which ones were good or not when I was in my Shakespeare phase, so I ended up missing King Lear.
The Tempest r00lz.
Slight hijack but I figure this is the thread to ask this: any idea when (or even if) the Branagh **Hamlet ** is coming to DVD?
I remember, when I was a college freshman, going to a used book store. It was in a rather funky basement. I picked up a complete Shakespere in an edition that had a bit of a ragged spine. It was the first book i’d ever owned apart from the bible and the phone book that had two columns of text down each page. I read the whole thing, off and on, over the next year and a half. Funny thing is, I still can’t remember what The Winter’s Tale is about.
I find that the Complete Shakespeare is handy as a reference book, but too heavy and unwieldy to be very good as reading material. I quite like the Everyman’s library, which collects the works into a few manageable volumes.
But ol Will is always a treat. There’s a magical time when you disover his work, and realize it’s not a Thomas Hardy style classic which you don’t enjoy reading but feel like a better person having read… his work is eminently entertaining, filled with action and ribald jokes and turns of phrase. That you also feel like a better person having read it is just gravy on the meat.
I really entered this thread because I caught the name of the last poster, though… I love Wodehouse, too. Nice to meet you, Bertie. Wish I’d thunk of that username! Maybe I’ll rename myself Psmith or Ukridge.
Ha, I love all the dirty jokes he adds in.
What ho, Walter!
Apparently there is a Psmith, as I learned when registering. Don’t know about Ukridge, just don’t try touching me for a fiver. 
Anyway, to keep in topic, I still have the Shakespeare edition I mentioned, even though I occasionally think I should get a new one.
Walter-- don’t dis Hardy.
I encourage everyone to check their libraries for some of the audio editions of Shakespeare out there. If, like me, you have an insufficient interior voice when reading Shakespeare, it’s a good way to be introduced to his work.
I would put it the other way 'round.
Are you sure it’s not? I’d be very surprised if it wasn’t…
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Weird.
Okay, on the IMDB page there’s a message board post that says it’s coming this year.
I bought my Complete Works in Stratford, which makes it a little more special. I remember I read six plays in the next day or two - that was how I spent my entire flight back to the US. That book has traveled a lot.