The Complete Plays

Shakespeare's plays have suffused our culture and language like no others. Using the most authoritative text to date, this spectacular set presents the complete plays of the Bard, featuring a personal foreword by Dame Judi Dench.

Inspired by the black-and-red playbills of the Elizabethan era, award-winning artist Neil Packer has created an illustration for each of the plays, alongside bindings that feature some of Shakespeare’s most famous characters. The three volumes are housed in a slipcase representing the Globe Theatre where the plays were first produced. This is the ultimate edition of the most important writings in the English language, and a timeless gift that will be handed down from generation to generation.

Echoing the divisions in the First Folio; the plays are divided between three volumes – The Comedies, The Tragedies and The Histories. Uncluttered by notes, and with a generous setting, the 38 plays are beautifully readable and follow The Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works – the most up-to-date and authoritative versions. Although the First Folio comprised 36 plays, both Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen are included for completeness.