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King Lear
Excalibur
The Shakspearean Reader
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Plays (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 / Othello / Pericles / Romeo and Juliet / Timon of Athens / Titus Andronicus / Troilus and Cressida)
Cymbeline
The holy kingdom
The Complete Works of Shakespeare in Four Volumes. Volume IV (Antony and Cleopatra / Cymbeline / Hamlet / King Lear / Lover's Complaint / Othello / Passionate Pilgrim / Pericles / Phoenix and the Turtle / Rape of Lucrece / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music / Titus Andronicus / Venus and Adonis)
The Complete Works of Shakespeare [38 plays, 4 poems, sonnets]
Tragedies (Hamlet / King Lear / Macbeth / Othello)
Pendragon
Danebury, anatomy of an Iron Age hillfort
The Tragedies of Shakespeare. Volume II (Antony and Cleopatra / Cymbeline / Hamlet / King Lear / Othello / Pericles)
The quest for Arthur's Britain
The Fall of Arthur
Looking for Arthur
Reinventing King Arthur
Firelord
Celtic Religion in Roman Britain
Idylls of the King
Hillforts of the iron age in England and Wales
The Return to Camelot
Complete Works
Best Loved Plays (As You Like It / Hamlet / Julius Caesar / King Henry VIII / King Richard III / Macbeth / Merchant of Venice / Merry Wives of Windsor / Midsummer Night's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing / Romeo and Juliet / Taming of the Shrew / Tempest / Twelfth-Night)
Iron Age communities in Britain
Plays (Hamlet / King Lear / Macbeth / Othello / Romeo and Juliet)
Works (Hamlet / King Lear / Lover's Complaint / Othello / Passionate Pilgrim / Rape of Lucrece / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Venus and Adonis)
The Forest House
Milton's History of Britain
The Book of Merlyn
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