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An important early work by Shakespeare, a highly satirical comedy. Created around 1596-1597. The theme of the script is to praise benevolence, friendship and love. It also reflects the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie and the loan sharks in the early stage of capitalism, and expresses the author's humanistic thoughts on issues such as money, law and religion in bourgeois society. An important literary achievement of this play is to create the typical image of Shylock, a profit-seeking, ruthless loan shark.

"Shakespeare's Tragedies" contains five of Shakespeare's most representative tragedies that are widely popular among readers and audiences: "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth". These works all profoundly exposed the social problems and human tragedies that existed at that time. The depth and breadth of their thoughts, the precision and profundity of their psychological analysis and character descriptions all represent the most outstanding achievements of the drama master William Shakespeare. They are all well-deserved classics in world literature.

"Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth" are the four most famous tragedies of Shakespeare, known as the "Four Tragedies" in history. It mainly reveals the contradiction between ideals and reality and the disillusionment of ideals. The contradiction between humanistic ideals and the evil forces of real society constitutes a dramatic conflict. The play creates a group of characters with humanistic ideals and describes their tragic struggles, destruction and moral strength against evil forces. The "Four Tragedies" were completed in the central period of the development of Shakespeare's drama creation, and have reached the peak of outstanding artistic achievements.

This set of books is the first complete work of Shakespeare in verse in the Chinese-speaking world. The original form of Shakespeare's drama is a verse drama, which is a verse drama with blank verse as its basic form. Translating poetry into verse, trying to make the translation closer to the original appearance of Shakespeare's drama in terms of tone and language rhythm, is the ultimate appeal of this version. "Romantic Comedies Volume One" contains four of Shakespeare's early comedies. The Comedy of Errors is an early comedy written by Shakespeare. The main story in the play is that the master and the servant are twin brothers who are very similar in appearance and body. After being separated at sea, they appear together in a foreign city, causing many ridiculous plots of misunderstanding. "The Taming of the Shrew" is Shakespeare's early comedy work with a funny and interesting plot. It tells the story of a smart man who used ingenious strategies to successfully transform a grumpy rich girl into a gentle and virtuous wife. In the story, the characters' distinctive personalities and vivid dialogues are impressive. "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" is an early comedy by Shakespeare. The play tells the love stories of two young gentlemen in Verona, Valentin and Proteus, focusing on the different attitudes of these friends towards love. "Love's Labour's Labour" is one of Shakespeare's most satirical comedies, and it is also a court comedy.

This set of books is the first complete work of Shakespeare in verse in the Chinese-speaking world. The original form of Shakespeare's drama is a verse drama, which is a verse drama with blank verse as its basic form. Translating poetry into verse, trying to make the translation closer to the original appearance of Shakespeare's drama in terms of tone and language rhythm, is the ultimate appeal of this version. This new set of "The Complete Works of Shakespeare" fully absorbs the latest results of international Shakespeare studies, and includes a total of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays (in addition to the traditional thirty-seven, it also includes two plays, "The Two Noblesse" and "Edward III"). The poetry part was only confirmed in the 1980s and 1990s. It is believed that the "Complete Collection" of Shakespeare's long poem "Mourning", with more than 4.7 Million words, can be regarded as the most comprehensive collection, the most sophisticated collation in the entire Chinese-speaking world, and the first poetic Chinese translation of the complete works of Shakespeare that is both academic and readable. The publication of this "Complete Collection" will be of milestone significance. The "Poetry Volume" includes "Venus and Adonis", "The Lost Virginity of Lucrece", "Sonnets", "The Complaints of a Lover", "The Passionate Pilgrim", "The Phoenix and the Turtle Dove", "Mourning" and appendices.

The story takes place in Verona, Italy. The two families, Capulet and Montague, are hostile to each other because the two families have a deep feud and have a tendency of sworn hatred. At a banquet, a man and a woman from these two families met and fell in love dramatically. Their fate may have been decided at this moment. Although the two families have a deep hatred, they cannot stop the tide of love. They spend time together and talk to each other. The strong opposition from the two families only made the fire of love burn brighter and stronger. They further made a private lifelong engagement and held a wedding ceremony under the auspices of the kind-hearted Father Lawrence. Their hearts were full of longing for the future, and they were willing to hold hands and grow old together with their son. Unexpectedly, a fight ruined their beautiful love. A drama that tests the love and will of two young people is staged in this way. How will the conflict between the love of the two young people and the family continue to be entangled? What will be the ending?