9780060088736 | Harpercollins, October 1, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year--1599--that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature.

9780060088743 | Reprint edition (Perennial, June 1, 2006), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen.

9780060839642 | Large print edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 2005), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A lavishly detailed portrait of a year in the life of the bard traces his career in 1599, which marked the building of the Globe Theater, the English invasion of Ireland, and the creation of the plays, Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and Hamlet.

9780231101806 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive collection of British verse, featuring poems from every era of British history, includes classic poets ranging from Chaucer to Auden, and offers works by little-known women writers and the best of Britain's contemporary poets

9789990056716 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $0.02 | also contains The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

9780231075404 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $66.50