This is a list of LAPL's Folger Shakespeare Library Editions, which include, "Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play. Scene-by-scene plot summaries. A key to famous lines and phrases. An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language. An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play. Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s extensive holdings of rare books."
Selected titles from LAPL's collection by William Shakespeare, in connection with an exhibit that was at the Central Library, Getty Gallery, November 2016 to February 2017, from the Folger Library: America's Shakespeare - The Bard Goes West.
![Book cover for All's well that ends well](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/8fabe5be136367a32d3392b6faed80f6.jpg?itok=4fA1Tc9t)
![Book cover for Antony and Cleopatra](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/01662b0d38cd37905b50edfc8eff9397.jpg?itok=yXiqfaKh)
![Book cover for As you like it](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/bb104a1b4f80b1ef11c28d5de3a19d22.jpg?itok=bbVntXPD)
![Book cover for The comedy of errors](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/efa20b161f86169a0c1a1a06240eecbf.jpg?itok=neTUA1Ud)
![Book cover for Coriolanus](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/311de209535885396c729cf6e99c21b4.jpg?itok=gEHaxq6M)
![Book cover for Cymbeline](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/eb7af847997d61e4b2891154dd235666.jpg?itok=3SOwu1aN)
![Book cover for Henry IV. by William Shakespeare ; edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine. Part 1](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/256dbad54a180aae27e5d3b8dccc6951.jpg?itok=jGhc9Ry2)
![Book cover for Henry IV. by William Shakespeare ; edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine Part 2](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/b94a0edaa9e64dae9aa906b898696c07.jpg?itok=3r4W3fTi)
![Book cover for Henry VI. by William Shakespeare ; edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. Part 1](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/48e5f276697610b1cc88fc00928851ec.jpg?itok=b_aj9NvN)
![Book cover for Henry VI. by William Shakespeare ; edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. Part 2](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/3b3b05224d89f194d5b1ef921972bc02.jpg?itok=yDpfXOVo)
![Book cover for Henry VI. by William Shakespeare ; edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. Part 3](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/bc4d97fe96874773c106179940d38a10.jpg?itok=ZCNoQys_)
![Book cover for Henry VIII](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/1be0d70b06c273b215a2499cf16fcaf7.jpg?itok=zNUtbT4z)
![Book cover for Henry VIII](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/1be0d70b06c273b215a2499cf16fcaf7_1.jpg?itok=4xCxzb4q)
![Book cover for The life and death of King John](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/046dbfe46ba5a60de4d2aa35c3e2ad78.jpg?itok=BYyOMkgU)
![Book cover for The life of Henry V](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/8f44f92944f5027c905ff7ebf4a27795.jpg?itok=2g0gCI2v)
![Book cover for Love's labour's lost](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/f32a655f8a534f0c2ee367196681d8ee.jpg?itok=e1Jjg1-D)
![Book cover for Measure for measure](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/94474cb797bcc8f14232e47bbaae28e6.jpg?itok=oSDMJXcM)
![Book cover for The merchant of Venice](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/a24be96dfad8a0e0d6bd6d465b4cdd0d.jpg?itok=iRi9GqMR)
![Book cover for The merry wives of Windsor](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/0be50d68b1302ed239420b3e7d488c90.jpg?itok=diiWyzPo)
![Book cover for A midsummer night's dream](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/e98eff92bed8d1722ac68fd1b446cbb4.jpg?itok=4Z2P-ijn)
![Book cover for Much ado about nothing](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/aec9dccc2b192bfcdea6e4f0f624153f.jpg?itok=waE4p_Xq)
![Book cover for Pericles, Prince of Tyre](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/9fad7a7de8b24cb53b3edc677514314d.jpg?itok=IFX2Optw)
![Book cover for Shakespeare's sonnets and poems](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/fba6076955d12cfdb590b2857f3aa8d1.jpg?itok=eGKilXBN)
![Book cover for The taming of the shrew](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/3952508c803bf093167c09528dfc26cd.jpg?itok=s7bPANsH)
![Book cover for The tempest](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/7c50b4dac7ddb74b548bf12f5df1fbf7.jpg?itok=2FHRMRtV)
![Book cover for Timon of Athens](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/8cfb09b7708d3f77fbefbd8588e36fea.jpg?itok=fk5HS4Zm)
![Book cover for Titus Andronicus](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/e775b7872fabec90dac01e3f78903a2a.jpg?itok=6Dq2p_Lo)
![Book cover for The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/942928cd7dae02d861517c4d7f411536.jpg?itok=yD3in1xb)
![Book cover for The tragedy of Julius Caesar](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/200c306b55b9c4836b9bc4e649d6aad6.jpg?itok=aGynENp5)
![Book cover for The tragedy of King Lear](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/f41e069fb0bde241ec59c87ef9ae5062.jpg?itok=u85TKJaT)
![Book cover for The tragedy of Macbeth](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/1552c14022f8eccc377ecbb0866b4731.jpg?itok=vFVS2O0A)
![Book cover for The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/fea75a97149d621203eba056f1ba9f58.jpg?itok=_jc97Wvt)
![Book cover for The tragedy of Richard II](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/acd34ca5acd28f7f3920157236a9afda.jpg?itok=Q22yG1lW)
![Book cover for The tragedy of Richard III](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/54678df23a4116862692e8ddd50a754e.jpg?itok=VUR09K6k)
![Book cover for The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/2debf4002d528c9f5ac32eb5d5c072eb.jpg?itok=-uRsvM78)
William Shakespeare's play about two young lovers caught in the web of their respective family feuds.
![Book cover for Troilus and Cressida](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/3e12dfc246cb359af037cc5c994eb41d.jpg?itok=D3HlHX0h)
![Book cover for Twelfth night, or, What you will](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/45cce333e4b0103c6d26358f6d50129c.jpg?itok=iP_dkbGD)
![](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/default_images/book-default_2.png?itok=yzidoG7r)
![Book cover for The winter's tale](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/3bb29b52c55a7ea59f664d7679217949.jpg?itok=zmBT0znN)