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The Merchant of Venice
Othello
Macbeth
King Lear
The Knights Cabinet Edition of The Works of William Shakspere. Volume VIII (Hamlet / King Henry VIII / Romeo and Juliet)
Tragedies (Antony and Cleopatra / Coriolanus / Cymbeline / Hamlet / Julius Caesar / King Lear / Macbeth / Othello / Romeo and Juliet / Timon of Athens / Titus Andronicus / Troilus and Cressida)
Passing Strange
Sails of the herring fleet
Clues to acting Shakespeare
Works (46)
Poems / Tragedies (Antony and Cleopatra / Coriolanus / Cymbeline / Julius Caesar / King Lear / Lover's Complaint / Macbeth / Othello / Passionate Pilgrim / Pericles / Rape of Lucrece / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Timon of Athens / Titus Andronicus / Troilus and Cressida / Venus and Adonis)
The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare in Two Volumes. Volume II (Antony and Cleopatra / Coriolanus / Cymbeline / Hamlet / Julius Caesar / King Henry VI. Part 1 / King Henry VI. Part 2 / King Henry VI. Part 3 / King Henry VIII / King Lear / King Richard III / Lover's Complaint / Othello / Passionate Pilgrim / Pericles / Rape of Lucrece / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Timon of Athens / Titus Andronicus / Troilus and Cressida / Venus and Adonis)
Celestina
Performing Shakespeare
As You Like It
Works [37 plays, 4 poems, sonnets]
Intentions
Plays (37)
The Prince of West End Avenue
Shakespeare in performance
The Green Lantern
Plays (Hamlet / Macbeth / Romeo and Juliet)
Brutus and Other Heroines
The Works of William Shakespeare in Nine Volumes. Volume IX (Hamlet / Henry V / King Henry VI / King Lear / Lover's Complaint / Merry Wives of Windsor / Passionate Pilgrim / Pericles / Phoenix and Turtle / Rape of Lucrece / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Venus and Adonis)
Complete Works of Shakespeare in Eight Volumes. Volume VIII (Hamlet / Lover's Complaint / Othello / Passionate Pilgrim / Phoenix and the Turtle / Rape of Lucrece / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music / Venus and Adonis)
The Shakespeare Curse
Hag-Seed
Shakespeare at the moment
Twenty of the Plays of Shakespeare (Hamlet / King Henry IV. Part 1 / King Henry IV. Part 2 / King Henry V / King Henry VI. Part 2 / King Henry VI. Part 3 / King John / King Lear / King Richard II / King Richard III / Love's Labour's Lost / Lover's Complaint / Merchant of Venice / Merry Wives of Windsor / Midsummer Night's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Othello / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Taming of the Shrew / Titus Andronicus / Troilus and Cressida)
Theatrical space in Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg
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