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Books & documents
- The Tempest — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth — A. C. Bradley Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare — William Shakespeare and E. Nesbit Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- King Lear — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9] — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Measure for Measure — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 7 of 9] — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9] — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Shakespeare's Roman plays and their background — Sir Mungo William MacCallum Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9] — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9] — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Tales from Shakespeare — Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Comedy of Errors — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Merry Wives of Windsor — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9] — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 1 of 9] — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Characters of Shakespeare's Plays — William Hazlitt Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9] — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Two Gentlemen of Verona — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Le roi Lear (French) — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- William shakespeare: The tragedy of King Lear (1963) — Rusell Fraser Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The play's the thing; seventeen of Shakespeare's greatest dramas (1963) — Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Introductions to Shakespeare's tragedies : King Richard II, King Richard III, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (1994) — Hudson, Henry Norman, 1814-1886 Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- King Lear (2012) — Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- 10 best Shakespeare stories ever! (2009) — Deary, Terry Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The tragedie of King Lear : a facsimile from the First Folio (2008) — Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- A new variorum edition of Shakespeare (1871) — Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912, Modern Language Association of America Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Shakespeare: the tragedies; a collection of critical essays (1964) — Harbage, Alfred, 1901- ed Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The Tudor Shakespeare (1922) — Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Neilson, William Allan, 1869-1946, Thorndike, Ashley Horace, 1871-1933 Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Mr William Shakespeare : his comedies, histories, and tragedies : set out by himself in quarto, or by the players, his fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those editions in ten volumes octavo, with an introduction : whereunto will be added, some other volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a body of various readings entire (1768) — Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Capell, Edward, 1713-1781, editor, Leach, Dryden, printer, Miller, J., active 1760? engraver, Lewis, Charles, 1786-1836, binder, Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner, J. and R. Tonson, bookseller Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Mr. William Shakespeare, his comedies, histories, and tragedies (1767) — Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Capell, Edward, 1713-1781 Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- M. William Shake-speare's King Lear: The Second Quarto, 1608 (1885) — William Shakespeare , Charles Praetorius , Peter Augustin Daniel Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Shakespeare, the tragedies : new perspectives (1984) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Aspects of King Lear : articles reprinted from Shakespeare survey (1982) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. A tragedy. By William Shakespeare. Collated with the old and modern editions. 1773 (1773) — Shakespeare, William Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The history of King Richard the second ... 1681 (1681) — Shakespeare, William. Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Two speeches. 1675 (1675) — Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of. Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Twenty of the plays of Shakespeare. 1766: Vol 6 (1766) — Shakespeare William Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Nobody's perfect : writings from the New Yorker (2002) — Lane, Anthony, 1962- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The Tragedy of King Lear (1963) — William Shakespeare Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Macbeth and King Lear (1893) — Curtis, Jessie K., Mrs Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Lear : the Shakespeare company plays Lear at Babylon (2016) — Johnson, Mike, 1947- author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Soneṭn (1953) — Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Lapin, Berl, 1889-1952 Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Hamlet (1603) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Macbeth (1508) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Henry V (1600) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Julius Caesar (1656) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Othello (1622) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Merchant of Venice (1600) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Richard II (1597) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Richard III (1597) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Henry IV, Part 1 (1598) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1734) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Tragedies (Hamlet / King Lear / Macbeth / Othello) (1924) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- As You Like It (1734) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Antony and Cleopatra (1734) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Sonnets (1609) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Henry IV, Part 2 (1600) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- King John (1623) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- King Lear, William Shakespeare (1988) — Linda Cookson, Bryan Loughrey Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets] (1730) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- All's Well That Ends Well (1734) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Henry VI, Part 2 (1600) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Henry VI, Part 3 (1600) — William Shakespeare Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
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