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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1999) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket showing Canada $45.00 top-right & British Pound 25.00 bottom-right of inside-front flap, NEW royal-blue library-durable linen-over-boards cover w/ SHARP NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE sepia-illustrated front-&-back card-stock end-papers, NEW binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT paper * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.72", 0.94 kg, xxv+467 (492) pp *ABOUT THE BOOK: This text presents a narrative of a nation's history as portrayed by William Shakespeare. John Julius Norwich tells the story of what really happened in the century & a half between 1337 & 1485 by examining the history plays, from the recently-authenticated "Edward III" through to "Richard III". * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Julius, 2nd Viscount Norwich, was born in 1929, the son of the statesman & diplomat Alfred Duff Cooper (1st Viscount) & the Lady Diana Cooper. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg & on the lower deck of the Royal Navy before taking a degree in French & Russian at New College, Oxford. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service, where he remained for 12 years, serving at the embassies in Belgrade & Beirut & w/ the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. In 1964 he resigned from the service in order to write. His many & varied publications include two books on the medieval Norman Kingdom in Sicily, "The Normans in the South" & "The Kingdom in the Sun", "The Architecture of Southern England", "Glyndebourne" & "A History of Venice", orig. pub. in 2-vols. He is also the author of an acclaimed 3-volume history of the Byzantine Empire, & has written & presented c. 30 historical documentaries for television. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Revised Edition. META-CLASSIC: SUPERB: NEAR FINE to FINE: Revised Edition (Orig. 1969) Eighth Issue (1977) w/ no. line at 14 showing 14th Printing (c. 1990): EXCELLENT black buckram-over-boards cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gilt-stamped between gilt-ruled title panels on spine, EXCELLENT smooth-cut text-block exterior unblemished apart from a small black mark at the heel of base, AS-NEW binding w/ tight signatures-sheets & yellow-black-checked linen banding at spine-caps, SUPERB illus. sepia end-papers showing panoramic views of Shakespeare's London, PRISTINE interior w/ texts beautifully & clearly presented in 2-column format on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 7.28" x 10.0" x 2.06", 1.92 kg, xxxii+1482 (1514) pp * ABOUT THIS EDITION: This major AUTHORITATIVE 20th-Century Edition of the works is based on the EXCELLENT texts of the Pelican Shakespeare orig. published in 38-volumes between 1956 & 1967, & published in this carefully conceived edition which combines handsome design & accessibility w/ SUPERB scholarship. Ea. play & collection of poems is preceded by a substantial critical introduction that examines textual & literary-historical issues. The texts themselves have been scrupulously edited & are accompanied by same-page notes & glossaries. As we have noted & note again, particular attention was devoted to the design of this edition to ensure this its appeal, attractiveness & accessibility, thus making it a lasting & ideal addition to any collection. Truly an EXCELLENT edition of Shakespeare, it is IDEAL for those who wish to delve into the entire Shakespearean opus w/ the aid of carefully edited, glossed & annotated texts & brilliant accompanying critical commentary. * CONTENTS: Preface (ix), The Opening Pages of the Folio of 1623 (xi) - GENERAL INTRODUCTION: The Intellectual & Political Background (1), Shakespeare's Life (10), The Canon (18), Shakespeare's Theater (21), Shakespeare's Technique (30) The Original Texts (40), Editions & Variant Readings (44); THE COMEDIES: Foreword (53), The Comedy of Errors (55), The Taming of the Shrew (80), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (116), A Midsummer's Night Dream (146), Love's Labor's Lost (175), The Merchant of Venice (211), As You Like It (243), Much Ado About Nothing (274), Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will (305), The Merry Wives of Windsor (335), All's Well That Ends Well (365), Measure for Measure (400); THE HISTORIES: Foreword (435), The First Part of King Henry the Sixth (437), The Second & Third Parts of King Henry the Sixth (473), The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (551), The Life & Death of King John (600), The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (633), The First Part of King Henry the Fourth (668), The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth (703), The Life of King Henry the Fifth (741), The Life of King Henry the Eighth (780); THE TRAGEDIES: Foreword (821), Titus Andronicus (823), Romeo & Juliet (855), Julius Caesar (895), Hamlet Prince of Denmark (930), The History of Troilus & Cressida (977), Othello the Moor of Venice (1018), King Lear (1060), MacBeth (1107), The Life of Timon of Athens (1136), Antony & Cleopatra (1169), Coriolanus (1212); THE ROMANCES: Foreword (1257), Pericles Prince of Tyre (1259), Cymbeline (1290), The Winter's Tale (1334), The Tempest (1369); THE NON-DRAMATIC POETRY: Foreword (1399); The Narrative Poems (1401): Venus & Adonis (1406), The Rape of Lucrece (1419), The Phoenix & Turtle (1439), Poems of Doubtful Authenticity (1440); Shakespeare Sonnets (1449) Index of First Lines of the Sonnets (1480). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine one-volume complete Shakespeare for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee. Due to its weight we ship this set to all international destinations via efficient USPS PRIORITY INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL w/ below-cost rates available on request.