# Tragedies Volume 1

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- Book: [Tragedies Volume 1](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare/tragedies-volume-1) ([Tragedies Volume 1.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare/tragedies-volume-1.md))
- Authors: [William Shakespeare](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-092-6
- Pages: 540
- Published: 1992-10-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Volume 1 of the Everyman Shakespeare, published in 1992, includes the four major tragedies: HAMLET, KING LEAR, OTHELLO and MACBETH. The authoritatively edited texts of the plays are supplemented with extensive bibliographies, a chronology of Shakespear's life and times and a substantial introduction in which Prosessor Tony Tanner examines Shakespeare's evolution as a tragedian while also providing detailed discussions of the individual plays. This is the only two-volume edition of the tragedies with such comprehensive apparatus and it will eventually form part of a complete Shakespeare (plays and poems) in eight volumes.