Penguin has always been somewhat schizophrenic about Shakespeare. Not only are there three separate series devoted to the Bard, there are four versions of Pelican Shakespeares alone. Shakespeare also seems to attract (not just in Penguin, but from all publishers) some of the ugliest cover art around, for some reason, so much so that Phil Baines fails to even mention this series in his work, “Penguin By Design”. This series used the “AB” prefixes to its numbers.
| # | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| AB1 | Macbeth | 1956 |
| AB2 | Coriolanus | 1956 |
| AB3 | Measure for Measure | 1956 |
| AB4 | The Winter’s Tale | 1956 |
| AB5 | Hamlet | 1957 |
| AB6 | Richard the Second | 1957 |
| AB7 | Henry the Fourth, Part I | 1957 |
| AB8 | Henry the Fourth, Part II | 1957 |
| AB9 | Henry the Fifth | 1957 |
| AB10 | Othello | 1958 |
| AB11 | Twelfth Night | 1958 |
| AB12 | Much Ad About Nothing | 1958 |
| AB13 | Troilus and Cressida | 1958 |
| AB14 | King Lear | 1958 |
| AB15 | The Tempest | 1959 |
| AB16 | Richard the Third | 1959 |
| AB17 | As You Like It | 1959 |
| AB18 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 1959 |
| AB19 | Romeo and Juliet | 1960 |
| AB20 | Antony and Cleopatra | 1960 |
| AB21 | The Merchant of Venice | 1960 |
| AB22 | Julius Caesar | 1960 |
| AB23 | Sonnets | 1961 |
| AB24 | The Merry Wives of Windsor | 1963 |
| AB25 | The Taming of the Shrew | 1964 |
| AB26 | King John | 1962 |
| AB27 | Love’s Labour Lost | 1963 |
| AB28 | Cymbeline | 1965 |
| AB29 | Timon of Athens | 1964 |
| AB30 | All’s Well That Ends Well | 1965 |
| AB31 | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | 1965 |
| AB32 | Comedy of Errors | 1964 |
| AB33 | Titus Andronicus | 1966 |
| AB34 | Henry the Sixth, Part I | 1966 |
| AB35 | Henry the Sixth, Parts II & III | 1966 |
| AB36 | Henry the Eighth | 1966 |
| AB37 | Poems | 1966 |
| AB38 | Pericles | 1966 |
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