17 May 93




These unabridged, complete works of William Shakespeare are supplied
on two 1.4MB MSDOS operating system disks.

To join the segments and decompress into a readable text file
copy all parts of the self-extracting archive onto your hard disk.
(Make sure you have about four (4) megabytes of free space
on your hard disk for each diskette of Moby product.)
Change your directory ('CD') to your hard disk, type BUILD and press (enter).

After joining and decompression, the file 'MSHAK' may be browsed
or viewed with any capable text editor or word processor such as
Microsoft Word 5.x.



IMPORTANT:

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A good font setting for viewing the text is Monaco 9 while setting the
"tab" to about 20 or so.
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A glossary of terms that Shakespeare used in his day will be found in
the at the end of the Shakespeare file.


The unabridged Shakespeare is
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THIS ENTIRE WORK IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN,
WORLDWIDE.
 PLEASE DUPLICATE AND
DISTRIBUTE FREELY.




CONTENTS
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(In approximate chronological order of composition within each group.)



Histories
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2 Henry VI

3 Henry VI

1 Henry VI

Richard III

Venus and Adonis

The Rape of Lucrece

Richard II

King John

1 Henry IV

2 Henry IV

Henry V

Sonnets and 'A Lover's Complaint'

Various Poems

Henry VIII


Comedies
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Taming of the Shrew

The Comedy of Errors

Love's Labour's Lost

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Much Ado About Nothing

As You Like It

Twelfth Night

Troilus and Cressida

Measure for Measure

All's Well That Ends Well

Pericles Prince of Tyre

The Winter's Tale

Cymbeline

The Tempest


Tragedies
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Titus Andronicus

Romeo and Juliet

Julius Caesar

Hamlet

Othello

Timon of Athens

King Lear

Macbeth

Antony and Cleopatra

Coriolanus


Glossary
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