A comprehensive collection of Shakespeare's major tragedies, presenting the full dramatic exploration of ambition, power, love, and ruin in early modern England. This volume gathers twelve of William Shakespeare's most significant tragic plays into a single edition, offering a sustained view of the playwright's treatment of political instability, personal conflict, and moral consequence. Written between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, these works remain central to the study of English literature and the history of drama.
Included are Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, and Troilus and Cressida. Across these plays, Shakespeare examines the fragility of political order, the corrosive effects of ambition and jealousy, and the limits of human judgment under pressure. From the introspective uncertainty of Hamlet to the catastrophic ambition of Macbeth, and from Lear's descent into madness to the intimate tragedy of Othello, these works define the tragic form in English literature.
This Wilder Publications edition presents the tragedies as a unified body of work, allowing readers to follow the development of Shakespeare's dramatic and philosophical concerns across his career, while maintaining a clear and accessible text for modern readers.
