The bound edition is quite nice. Me. It is understandable huge.

Main character of richard iii is an unusually dastardly person. When edward iii goes at the countess of salisbury with wicked intent, the audience cheers him on, for wicked intent is theatrical. Two polished versions of lear exist.

I have the earlier edition and unless they have greatly improved the printing and binding, i cannot recommend the second edition. The book is also just too darn thick to read comfortably. If you are bored enough to read this book, you don't deserve to...  Read More

It looks like this was just scraped from project gutenberg. It is unclear where one stanza ends and where the next begins. The endings of some of the longer lines are scrunched up in awkward brackets.

Those seeking in-depth study should be forewarned, the texts are not annotated at all. The introduction to the plays themselves are shockingly short. No background on the plays, glosses of difficult words, etc.

Anglicized names such as stephano and petruchio have been changed. In cymbeline the editors insist on the archaic original form of the name innogen.