The first edition of the series, running through 1949 and including books #1-21, are of the rather unappealing orange-soaked design; designer Jan Tschichold took over and created the second design, which ran until 1967, long after other series gave up and went modern. Each title contains a universal introduction to the Old Globe Theatre, as well as a short individualized introduction to the play. Notably, the paper quality of the series is a step above other Penguin publications of the time.
| # | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| B1 | Twelfth Night | 1937 |
| B2 | Hamlet | 1937 |
| B3 | Henry the Fifth | 1937 |
| B4 | King Lear | 1937 |
| B5 | As You Like It | 1937 |
| B6 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 1937 |
| B7 | The Tempest | 1937 |
| B8 | The Merchant of Venice | 1937 |
| B9 | Richard the Second | 1937 |
| B10 | Romeo and Juliet | 1937 |
| B11 | Julius Caesar | 1937 |
| B12 | Macbeth | 1937 |
| B13 | Henry the Fourth Part 1 | 1938 |
| B14 | Henry the Fourth Part 2 | 1938 |
| B15 | Much Ado About Nothing | 1938 |
| B16 | Othello | 1938 |
| B17 | Antony and Cleopatra | 1938 |
| B18 | The Sonnets & A Lover’s Complaint | 1938 |
| B19 | The Winter’s Tale | 1947 |
| B20 | Coriolanus | 1947 |
| B21 | Trylus and Cressida | 1947 |
| B22 | The Taming of the Shrew | 1951 |
| B23 | Love’s Labour’s Lost | 1953 |
| B24 | Richard the Third | 1953 |
| B25 | Measure for Measure | 1954 |
| B26 | The Comedy of Errors | 1955 |
| B27 | All’s Well That Ends Well | 1955 |
| B28 | The Merry Wives of Winsor | 1957 |
| B29 | Timon of Athens | 1956 |
| B30 | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 1956 |
| B31 | Cymbeline | 1957 |
| B32 | King John | 1957 |
| B33 | Titus Andronicus | 1958 |
| B34 | Henry the Eighth | 1958 |
| B35 | Pericles | 1958 |
| B36 | Henry the Sixth | 1959 |
| B37 | The Narrative Poems | 1959 |
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