The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]

by William Shakespeare

This sixth volume of the Cambridge Shakespeare, edited by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright and first published in the 1860s, contains four plays: King Henry the Eighth, the pageant of Wolsey's fall and Katharine's divorce that Shakespeare is believed to have written with John Fletcher; Troilus and Cressida, his bitter version of the Trojan War; Coriolanus, the tragedy of the proud Roman general who turns against his own city; and Titus Andronicus, the early revenge play whose violence long embarrassed his admirers. The Cambridge edition established the modern text of Shakespeare, and each play is printed with a full apparatus recording the readings of the quartos, folios and earlier editors, with notes on disputed passages. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first act is free.