Reviews for Histories: Volume 1 (Everyman's Library)

The average rating for Histories: Volume 1 (Everyman's Library) based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-28 00:00:00 Benoit Groleau While going through my library when moving, I realized I have all the Shakespeare Everyman's Library editions. They are the most loveliest of books. Treasures. (Just filling in my books here on GR, no need to *like* this non-review...)

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-19 00:00:00 Robert Pafford Tony Tanner's introductions to 'Richard III' and 'King John' are very incisive. His introductions to the three 'Henry VI' plays are rather cursory and address them as a prelude to 'Richard III' rather than independent works in their own right. This is a shame as they are very entertaining plays that are rarely performed individually. On the ordering of the plays in this volume - they are ordered in supposed order of composition (1H6, 2H6, 3H6, R3, KJ) rather than order of historical period (KJ, 1H6, 2H6, 3H6, R3). I would have preferred the latter order, as in the First Folio, to avoid the confusion over which sequence the 'Henry VI' plays were written in.