Shakespeare's Romances and Poems

Bevington's The Complete Works of Shakespeare has long been recognized as the discipline's most balanced and student-friendly Shakespeare compilation. Now its proven editorial approach and helpful apparatus are available in four paperback volumes—Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Romances and Poems—packaged together as The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Portable Edition. The volumes can be ordered individually or in any combination—at a discount—to suit your course. These paperback editions include new introductions specific to each genre to help readers grasp the continuities and variations in Shakespeare's use of genre conventions. They also feature coverage of stage and film history for each play along with comprehensive notes and glosses to give modern readers a better understanding of Shakespearean language and idioms. A richly illustrated General Introduction provides the historical and cultural background readers need to understand Shakespeare's works in context. --back cover

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction, Fantasy. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.