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User Review - librisissimo - LibraryThingIt's Shakespeare - what can I say? I haven't read this volume all the way through, but have read many of the plays at one time or another. Two-colums of text, no notes, illustrations look to be black ... Read full review
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User Review - Ghost_Boy - LibraryThingUPDATE REVIEW! I have just read every Shakespeare play from this edition and than some. This has been a goal of mine for some time. Some plays I've read previously for various classes in high school ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 9 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare University Press Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Editor | Sir Sidney Lee |
| Contributor | Sir Sidney Lee |
| Publisher | Jefferson Press, 1907 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 27 Dec 2006 |
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