Given that the world's most famous English author has been published in one form or another, continuously, for almost 400 years, it's no surprise that one can add Shakespeare to one's private library in a wide variety of affordable ways. One could, for example, collect his works as graphic novels:
A variation on this way of collecting Shakespeare is to collect such graphic novels in their Asian form, manga:
If you find it too disrespectful to "collect the Bard" in this fashion, and you have a facility for languages, you could collect Shakespeare in translation--after all, over the past 400 or so years his works have been translated into virtually every language on the planet:
Instead of collecting everything the Bard wrote, you could focus only on those works which have been filmed for television or the movies:
Or, you could focus only on the plays, or only on the sonnets:
You could choose to focus your collecting efforts on the various ways a single work has been published:
You could even combine collecting by author (Shakespeare) with collecting by specialty (e.g., fine press books), a combination we will explore in more depth tomorrow....
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