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William Shakespeare
Our Price$14.95New!(Table of Contents)
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ISBN: 0486443361
Page Count: 1173
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
Convenient and inexpensive, this box set features a dozen of the Bard's most popular dramas. Unabridged texts of Hamlet, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Othello, King Lear, Julius Caesar, and Much Ado About Nothing.
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