William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. Volumes 1-3, 5-7, and ten of a larger 13 volume set. Includes: The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About nothing, Twelfth Night; or What You Will, Loves Labour's Lost, Taming of the Shrew, All's Well That Ends Well, King John, Richard II, King Henry IV parts one and two, King Henry V, King Henry VI parts one and two, Othello, The Moor of Venice, Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens. All volumes bound in maroon cloth with gilt decoration and lettering along spines, edges stained yellow. All volumes bumed along spine and board ends, centimeter long closed tear at head of spine on volume two.