Brooke, Tucker 1883-1946

Overview

Works:	171 works in 697 publications in 2 languages and 29,735 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Criticism, interpretation, etc Sources Bibliography Biography Spurious and doubtful works Fiction Dictionaries Glossaries, vocabularies, etc Juvenile works
Roles:	Editor, ed, Correspondent
Classifications:	PR2828.A2, 822.33

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Publications about Tucker Brooke

Publications by Tucker Brooke

Publications by Tucker Brooke, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Tucker Brooke

Letters signed from Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke to Joseph Quincy Adams by Tucker Brooke ( Book )
[Pamphlets, reprints, by C. F. Tucker Brooke] by Tucker Brooke ( Book )
Jack Randall Crawford papers by Jack Randall Crawford ( )
Henrietta C. Bartlett papers by Henrietta C Bartlett ( )
Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke papers by Tucker Brooke ( )

Letters to his mother by Tucker Brooke ( )
by Horace Gregory ( )

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Most widely held works by Tucker Brooke

Shakespeare of Stratford : a handbook for students by Tucker Brooke ( Book )
11 editions published between 1926 and 1970 in English and held by 1,770 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare ( Book )
11 editions published between 1924 and 1965 in English and held by 1,720 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A proud Roman general conquers the Volscians, leads them against Rome in revenge for his banishment, and is killed by the Volscian general when Coriolanus is persuaded to spare the city

Love's labour's lost by William Shakespeare ( Book )
7 editions published between 1925 and 1965 in English and held by 1,707 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s--after nearly three hundred years of neglect by the theater and misuse by critics

The life of King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare ( Book )
6 editions published between 1925 and 1965 in English and held by 1,657 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
King Henry is married to Katherine of Aragon, but he has been smitten by the charms of the Queen's Maid of Honor, Anne Bullen, and is tempted to divorce his dignified and noble wife

Much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare ( Book )
23 editions published between 1917 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,625 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Olney Theatre, Players Incorporated presents Jan Farrand and Francis Bethencourt in "Much Ado About Nothing," by William Shakespeare, with Edward Finnegan, Robert Ludlum, J. Robert Dietz, Mary Van Valkenburg, Philip Bosco, Louis Camuti Jr., Edmund Torrance, directed by James D. Waring, setting and lighting by James D. Waring, costumes by Joseph Lewis

The works of Christopher Marlowe by Christopher Marlowe ( Book )
52 editions published between 1881 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,574 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Works included are: 'Tamburlaine the Great, parts 1 and 2', 'Doctor Faustus', 'The Jew of Malta', 'Edward II', 'Tragedy of Queen Dido of Carthage', 'The Massacre at Paris', 'Hero and Leander' (including Chapman's Continuation), lyric poems, all Ovid's elegies and 'Lucan's First Book'

The first part of King Henry the Sixth by William Shakespeare ( Book )
9 editions published between 1918 and 1965 in English and held by 1,568 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The play opens in the aftermath of the death of King Henry V of England (although it was written before Shakespeare's play, Henry V). News reaches England of military setbacks in France, and the scene shifts across the English Channel, to Orleans, where ""La Pucelle"" (Joan of Arc) is encouraging the Dauphin to resist. She defeats an English army led by Talbot

The third part of King Henry the Sixth by William Shakespeare ( Book )
8 editions published between 1623 and 1965 in English and held by 1,531 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The play begins with a confrontation between Richard, Duke of York (the future King Richard III), the reigning King Henry VI and their respective supporters. Threatened with physical violence by the Earl of Warwick (Richard Neville), the king brokers a deal to make York his heir. Disgusted at his cowardice, his supporters abandon him. The Queen, Margaret of Anjou, makes it clear that she will not agree to this, and declares war on the Yorkists, with the assistance of the young Lord Clifford and other supporters, including her son, Edward, Prince of Wales

The second part of King Henry the Sixth by William Shakespeare ( Book )
8 editions published between 1923 and 1965 in English and held by 1,472 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Henry enters the court with his various lords. Suffolk has returned from France with Margaret, whom he presents to the king as his new wife. He also brings a peace treaty from France, which Gloucester reads. He falters when he comes to a passage about the French keeping the territories of Anjou and Maine in return for Margaret. Gloucester is upset at this loss of land, once hard-won by Henry V and by the other lords in recent French wars

... The tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare ( Book )
15 editions published between 1917 and 1965 in English and held by 1,451 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lear, the King of Britain, has three daughters. Wishing to ease himself of the burden of rule, he determines to divide his kingdom between them, giving the largest share to she who can say she loves him the best

The first part of King Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare ( Book )
17 editions published between 1917 and 1969 in English and held by 1,404 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
England resides in a state of unrest as Henry IV despairs over his son and heir, Prince Henry, who is led into a life of debauchery by Falstaff, while the Percy family attempts to wrest the crown from the Bolingbroke line

The Tudor drama; a history of English national drama to the retirement of Shakespeare by Tucker Brooke ( Book )
41 editions published between 1911 and 1972 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,332 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays on Shakespeare and other Elizabethans by Tucker Brooke ( Book )
34 editions published between 1941 and 1972 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

English drama, 1580-1642 by Tucker Brooke ( Book )
15 editions published between 1933 and 1962 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,292 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare ( Book )
9 editions published between 1818 and 1967 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One of Shakespeare's finest works is available in a new edition, based on the best early printed version of the play. This new edition of Othello reflects the latest scholarship and includes information on Shakespeare's life, explanatory notes, and a Modern Perspective section. Illustrated

The tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare ( Book )
17 editions published between 1947 and 1966 in English and held by 1,165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Biographical information and critical essays accompany Shakespeare's play about a prince's wavering determination to avenge his father's murder

The Shakespeare apocrypha; being a collection of fourteen plays which have been ascribed to Shakespeare by William Shakespeare ( Book )
47 editions published between 1908 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,069 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The life of Marlowe, and the tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe ( Book )
18 editions published between 1930 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 714 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Shakespeare's Plutarch by Plutarch ( Book )
17 editions published between 1909 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 494 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Yale Shakespeare by William Shakespeare ( Book )
40 editions published between 1917 and 2006 in English and held by 493 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Complete collection of Shakespeare's comedies, histories & tragedies

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