Everyboday's Shakespeare

[mteal]

Guess I won't be able to look at Welles' impressive sketches on this eBay item anymore. Looks like someone's finally gonna grab it for $50:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws....y=45107

Does anybody here own any of these books? How are they?

[Jeff Wilson]

Actually that's not really a good deal, because the Harper edition is rather more plentiful than the Todd Press edition. I've picked up a couple of the Harper editions, for about $15 to $20 total. They're neat books, mainly for Welles' illustrations and the intro about performing the plays.

[mteal]

It's interesting that you say the Harper editions are more plentiful then the Todd school edition, since the Todd edition (Everybody's Shakespeare) tends to be very expensive online. As I understand it, Everybody's Shakespeare contains JULIUS CEASAR, TWELFTH NIGHT, and THE MERCHANT OF VENICE all in one book, and I've seen this book selling for as much as $200-$300 on Amazon.com.

For the Harper edition (Mercury Shakespeare), the three above plays are of course seperated into individual books, with MACBETH added to make it a quartet. Funny thing is, copies of JULIUS, TWELFTH NIGHT, and MERCHANT can all be found on Amazon for only about $10-$15 apiece (I just bought JULIUS for $10). MACBETH however, cannot be found on Amazon, and the copy on ebay linked above sold for $51. Makes me wonder if the MACBETH book isn't considerably more rare then the other three, although I don't really see why it should be.