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The fawn
New readings vs. old plays
King Henry V
Jacobean Drama
Three Great Plays of Shakespeare
Radical tragedy
A select collection of old plays
Constellation (Antony and Cleopatra / As You Like It / Cymbeline / Hamlet / Julius Caesar / King Henry IV. Part 1 / King Henry IV. Part 2 / King Henry V / King John / King Lear / King Richard II / King Richard III / Macbeth / Measure for Measure / Merchant of Venice / Midsummer Night's Dream / Othello / Romeo and Juliet / Taming of the Shrew / Tempest / Timon of Athens / Troilus and Cressida / Twelfth Night / Two Gentlemen of Verona / Winter's Tale)
The growth and structure of Elizabethan comedy
Philaster
Shakespeare's dramatic heritage
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
The Spanish tragedy
The moral vision of Jacobean tragedy
A study of Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy
Romeo and Juliet
The Elizabethan dumb show
Something Rich and Strange
Wave optics
Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets]
Shakespeare
Early plays from the Italian
Tudor and Stuart drama
The predecessors of Shakespeare
Pericles
A list of masques, pageants, &c
Annals of English drama, 975-1700
Themes and conventions of Elizabethan tragedy
A new history of early English drama
New historicism and Renaissance drama
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