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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Shakespearean stage, 1574-1642	Andrew Gurr	"For almost forty years The Shakespearean Stage has been considered the liveliest, most reliable and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time. It is the only authoritative …	OL102630W
Pronouncing Shakespeare	David Crystal	How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? For three days in June 2004 Shakespeare's Globe present…	OL15105706W
Murder most foul	David M. Bevington	What is it about Hamlet that has made it such a compelling and vital work? This book is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed a…	OL16202594W
Shakespeare's lost play	Gregory Doran	This book is Gregory Doran's account of his quest to re-discover Cardenio, the lost play written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher. A thrilling act of literary detection that takes him from the Bodlei…	OL16573259W
Shakespeare survey	Allardyce Nicoll	"An annual survey of Shakespearian study and production."	OL16997811W
Poel Granville Barker Guthrie Wanamaker	Cary M. Mazer	p. cm	OL17396478W
Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces	Victor Hugo,Sophocles,Heinrich Heine,Charles Baudelaire,Colette,Albert Camus,Blaise Pascal,Πλάτων,Pak, Tu-jin,Henrik Ibsen,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Isak Dinesen,Pär Lagerkvist,Buson Yosa,Yehuda Amichai,Wang, Wei,Rabindranath Tagore,Tu Fu,Tsurayuki Ki,Όμηρος,Ovid,Jorge Luis Borges,Антон Павлович Чехов,Giovanni Boccaccio,Александр Исаевич Солженицын,Thomas Mann,Niccolò Machiavelli,François Villon,Jonathan Swift,川端康成,William Wordsworth,Chrétien de Troyes,Николай Васильевич Гоголь,Julio Cortázar,Heinrich Böll,Burton Beers,Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy,Doris Lessing,Günter Grass,Po Chu-i,Dante Alighieri,Guy de Maupassant,Stanisław Lem,Jean de La Fontaine,Yoshida Kenko,Federico García Lorca,Derek Walcott,Luigi Pirandello,Franz Kafka,Christopher Marlowe,Lao-Tze,Bessie Head,Confucius,Boris Leonidovich Pasternak,Gabriela Mistral,Marie de France,Paul Valéry,Italo Calvino,Ōgai Mōri,Czesław Miłosz,Arthur Rimbaud,Gabriel García Márquez,Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin,Ch'ien T'ao,Najib Mahfouz,Toshiyori Minamoto,Margaret Atwood,Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko,Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan,Kobayashi, Hideo,Komachi Ono,Octavio Paz,Pierre de Ronsard,Manuel Rojas,Wole Soyinka,Rainer Maria Rilke,John Milton,Primo Levi,Lu Hsun,Sei Shōnagon,Rubén Darío,Hitomaro Kakinomoto,Pablo Neruda,Anna Ahkmatova,Basho,To Li Chien,Pliny,Li Po,Nguyen Thi Vinh,Virgil,Andrei Vosnesensky,Omar Khayyam,William Shakespeare	9-10th grade	OL18460630W
Shakespeare's theater	Wendy Greenhill	Describes the theaters of Shakespeare's time and indicates the topics of theater at royal courts, how plays were staged, and early acting techniques.	OL19240442W
Shakespeare and his theatre	John Russell Brown	Describes what we now believe Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was like, who the people were who ran it and how they worked, and what Shakespeare's plays were like in performance, as he saw them.	OL1924601W
A Shakespearean theater	Peter Chrisp	Describes typical features of theaters in Shakespearean England and many of the common objects used in them including trumpets, hazelnuts, and helmets.	OL19414865W
Shakespeare in Swahililand	Edward Wilson-Lee	Beginning with Victorian-era expeditions in which the Complete Works of Shakespeare were often the sole reading material carried into the interior of the continent, the Bard became a vital touchstone…	OL19670377W
The making of the Wizard of Oz	Aljean Harmetz	Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the most-watched movie of all time. From the ten scriptwriters at work to the scandal headlines of Munchkin orgies at the Culver City Hotel to the Witch's (accidenta…	OL1977419W
The Duchess of Malfi	John Russell Brown,John Webster,John Webster,Fred B. Millett	"The Duchess of Malfi" was published in 1623, but the date of writing may have been as early as 1611. It is based on a story in Painter's "Palace of Pleasure," translated from the Italian novelist, B…	OL2011725W
Open-air Shakespeare	Rosemary Gaby	"Many people today first encounter staged Shakespeare in an open-air setting. In Australia, picnic Shakespeares seem particularly suited to the predilections of contemporary audiences and the plays h…	OL23189397W
Actors and acting in Shakespeare's time	John Astington	"John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Bett…	OL23272016W
Marlowe's Empery	Robert A. Logan,Sara Munson Deats	"This collection seeks to expand the critical perspectives of Marlowe scholarship by bringing together essays that examine diverse aspects of Marlowe's artistry, while simultaneously embedding his po…	OL23788922W
Works (Hamlet / King Lear / Lover's Complaint / Othello / Passionate Pilgrim / Rape of Lucrece / Ro…	William Shakespeare	Contains: [Hamlet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15203981W/Hamlet) King Lear Lover's Complaint Othello Passionate Pilgrim Rape of Lucrece [Romeo and Juliet](https://openlibrary.org/works/O…	OL24326275W
King Lear	William Shakespeare	King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. His eldest daughters both then reject him at their homes, so Lear goes mad and wanders …	OL259026W
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]	William Shakespeare	Contains 44 works: PLAYS (37) All's well that ends well Antony and Cleopatra As you like it Comedy of errors Coriolanus Cymbeline [Hamlet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15203981W/Hamlet) …	OL259028W
Taming of the Shrew	William Shakespeare	This play within a play is a delightful farce about a fortune hunter who marries and tames" the town shrew. The comedy, often produced today because of its accessibility, is one of the plays Shakespe…	OL362690W