"Rabkin selects The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Macbeth, Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest as th

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A collection containing Alls Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida