Shakespeare's Complete Works

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Publication Date: 1999-08-01
Features: The book is divided into three volumes—Upper, Middle, and Lower. It includes timeless classics such as "Hamlet," "Romeo and Juliet," "King Lear," "The Merchant of Venice," and "Sonnets." Throughout the millennia of human history, the most influential figure is Genghis Khan; the most talented person is Shakespeare. – From the 1986 statistics of The Washington Post
Among the books commonly found in Western households, besides the Bible, the most common is the Complete Works of Shakespeare. The book not only collects enduring masterpieces such as "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," "The Merchant of Venice," "King Lear," and "Sonnets," but also includes translations of critiques on Shakespeare's works by world-renowned masters like Heine, Goethe, Tolstoy, and Hugo. It is China's first comprehensive work that integrates translations by Zhu Shenghao and other scholars with critiques by world masters, combining the values of appreciation, research, and preservation into a monumental scholarly work on Shakespeare.