OF SHAKESPEARE'S COMPLETE WORKS. BY HENRY N. HUDSON, LL.D., AUTHOR OF THE "Life, Art, AND CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEARE," In Twenty Volumes, duodecimo, two plays in each volume; also in Ten Volumes, of four plays each. HUDSON'S "Life, Art, and CHARACTERS of ShakespeaRE (2 vols.) is uniform in size and binding with the THE HARVARD EDITION, and is sold at the following retail prices: Cloth, $4.00 per set; half-calf $8.00 per set. THE HARVARD EDITION has been undertaken and the plan of it shaped with a special view to making the Poet's pages pleasant and attractive to general readers. Within the last thirty years great advances and additions have been made in the way of preparation for such a work, and these volumes bring the whole matter of Shakespeare up abreast with the latest researches. The first volume contains "the Burbage portrait," and a life of the Poet. A history of each play is given in its appropriate volume. 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