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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

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Platform:   Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP / 95
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  • Platform:   Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP / 95
  • Media: CD-ROM
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  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  • An essential companion to English Literature studies
  • One of the most powerful reference and research tools available today
  • Simply search by word, subject, phrase, date, century, era, country or category
  • Read and compare up to eight works side by side making this an essential GCSE revision tool
  • Save money on books by using the print facility to print screens or entire works

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  • ASIN: B00009PMAA
  • Release Date: 23 May 2003
  • Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,938 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. An essential companion to English Literature studies William Shakespeare was born in Stratford- Upon-Avon in 1564 and his legacy is a body of works unlikely to be equalled in Western civilisation. His use of language shows a remarkable wit and subtlety with themes so universal that they stir the imaginations of audiences all across the world. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is one of the most powerful reference and research tools available today. Simply search by word, subject, phrase, date, century, era, country and category. Read and compare up to eight works side by side making this an essential GCSE revision tool. Save money on individual collections of hardback books by using the print facility to print screens or entire works.

All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Five Poems Hamlet Prince of Denmark Henry V Henry VIII Julius Ceasar King Henry IV Part 1 King Henry IV Part 2 King Henry VI Part 1 King Henry VI Part 2 King Henry VI Part 3 King John King Lear King Richard II King Richard III Love’s Labour’s Lost Lover’s Complaint Macbeth Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Merry Wives of Windsor Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Passionate Pilgrim Pericles Phoenix and the Turtle Rape of Lucree Romeo and Juliet Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Venus and Adonis Winter’s Tale 154 Sonnets


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2.0 out of 5 stars Complete works which doesn't satisfy., 10 Oct 2005
By Budge Burgess (Kilmarnock, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Shakespeare, you imagine, would have killed for access to a decent word processor and the ability to delete, revise, improve, and expand on screen rather than the tedious process of scratching the words with a pen. He was the consummate professional writer: he wrote to earn a living, and would have embraced anything that made the task easier.

But how would he have greeted his works appearing on CD-ROM? On the face of it, a good idea. Certainly, if you want to undertake some serious academic study of text, then here you can look at the frequency of word use, search for phrases and specific lines, etc. It's a useful tool for serious students of the bard to keep on the shelf.

But as a slim means of reading the complete works? Well, all the words are here. And that's the major flaw. You pick a play, you call it up, and there they are - naked words on a vast snow white screen. They scroll on and on, endlessly. No notes, no textual analysis, no commentary. If you're staging the play and want to print out some A4 pages of text for your cast and crew, fine. But, for the student or fan or casual reader, the text appears depressingly bland on screen.

Books have a tactile quality which simply doesn't translate to a keyboard and mouse. Books have commentaries and pictures. You get no audio-visual extras or stimulus here. Just words. And they do look incredibly boring on screen. They also look so outmoded. The language is Elizabethan, but the technology seems to be from an equally ancient era - simple words, with no visual content, no audio supplement, no interactive ability to dissect meaning or search for dramatic analysis. It's quite disappointing, really.

This could be an interesting little resource, very useful for a specialist market, but it's highly unsatisfactory as a student or family edition of 'the complete works'.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Software written by Shakespeare too?, 6 Mar 2008
Unbelievable that in 2008 people still sell software with third rate user interface.This was like going back to window 3.1.

I would not recommend this product.
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