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The Merchant of Venice
Othello
Macbeth
King Lear
Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater
Plays (36)
Plays (Coriolanus / Romeo and Juliet / Titus Andronicus / Troilus and Cressida)
Peter Hall directs Antony and Cleopatra
Text In Action
The World Only Spins Forward
Interred with Their Bones
Plays (Hamlet / Othello / Romeo and Juliet)
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
The Plays of William Shakspeare (King Lear / Romeo and Juliet)
Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Works (38 plays, 5 poems, sonnets)
Fake fish
Shakespeare's advice to the players
Works [37 plays, 5 poems, sonnets]
The Works of William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra / Cymbeline / Hamlet / Julius Caesar / King Lear / Lover's Complaint / Macbeth / Othello / Passionate Pilgrim / Pericles / Phoenix and the Turtle / Rape of Lucrece / Romeo and Juliet / Sonnets / Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music / Timon of Athens / Venus and Adonis)
The Leopold Shakspere
The Tragedies (Antony and Cleopatra / Coriolanus / Hamlet / Julius Caesar / King Lear / Macbeth / Othello / Romeo and Juliet / Timon of Athens / Titus Andronicus / Troilus and Cressida)
The Oxford illustrated history of Shakespeare on stage
Shakespearian talks
A century of French best-sellers (1890-1990)
Shakespeare on stage
Plays (Hamlet / King Lear / Othello / Romeo and Juliet)
Me and Orson Welles
Reimagining Shakespeare for children and young adults
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