Author:William Shakespeare

The penultimate volume in the 8-volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare's later Comedies - THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, AS YOU LIKE IT, TWELFTH NIGHT, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL and MEASURE FOR MEASURE. The beautifully produced, single-column text of the plays, with the Signet footnotes, is supplemented with bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Professor Tony Tanner discusses each play individually while setting each in content. The seven plays bought in Penguin would cost 23. 20, while the Cambridge and Oxford Classics editions cost 33. 25 and 27. 50 respectively.
[Billy] may be the best first novel by a black author since Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye in 1969.
—— TimeIt challenges comparison with some of the world's most bizarre masterpieces
—— Financial TimesPatrick White is, in the finest sense, a world novelist. His themes are catholic and complex and he persues them with a single-minded energy and vision
—— Robert Nye , GuardianLike all first-class comedians, he is deadly serious
—— Terry Eagleton , StandIn his major postwar novels, the pain and earnestness of the individual’s quest for ‘meaning and design’ can be felt more intensely than perhaps anywhere else in contemporary Western prose
—— Sunday TimesAn antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian . . . an intensely dramatic masterpiece.
—— The Australian