Works (38 plays, 5 poems, sonnets)
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Contains: PLAYS (38) All's Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline [Hamlet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15203981W/Hamlet) Julius Caesar King Henry IV. Part 1 King Henry IV. Part 2 King Henry V King Henry VI. Part 1 King Henry VI. Part 2 King Henry VI. Part 3 King Henry VIII King John King Lear King Richard II King Richard III Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Merry Wives of Windsor Midsummer Night's Dream [Much Ado About Nothing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362691W) Othello Pericles [Romeo and Juliet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362705W/Romeo_and_Juliet) Taming of the Shew [Tempest](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362699W) Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona **Two Noble Kinsmen** Winter's Tale POEMS (5) & sonnets Lover's Complaint Passionate Pilgrim Phoenix and the Turtle Rape of Lucrece Sonnets Venus and Adonis
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Troilus and Cressida
Same verse drama and war backdrop, but narrows to one cynical, bitter love triangle instead of the whole canon's range.
Romeo and Juliet
Pulls the collection's best-known tragedy out on its own: forbidden young love, feuding families, and a faster, more romance-focused read.
The Heir (The Selection #4)
Keeps the court intrigue, royal succession and rival suitors of the histories and comedies, but far lighter, modern, and with a guaranteed happy pairing.
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Keeps the star-crossed love-triangle heartache of the tragedies but in a modern seaside teen register, far gentler and without bloodshed.
Legendary
Court intrigue, disguised identities and a game where nothing is as it seems, like the comedies — but romantic and modern-voiced.
Paris for One
Shares the seed's comic mistaken-identity charm and quick romantic reversals, but in light modern short stories instead of tragedy and verse.