Stride, John 1936-Overview
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John Stride
Macbeth
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4 editions published between 1971 and 2003 in English and held by 1,055 libraries worldwide A classic tragedy about the lust for power and its ultimate bloody consequences. Macbeth is a Scottish war hero whose insane ambition unleashes a cycle of violence. Prompted by the supernatural prophecy of three witches, Macbeth is then goaded by his lady into slaying King Duncan in order to assume the throne. He plunges further into murder and moral decay to keep the unsteady crown on his head.
A midsummer night's dream
by William Shakespeare
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6 editions published between 1964 and 1996 in English and held by 556 libraries worldwide Fairy creatures meddle with varying results in the lives of humans wandering in the woods.
Henry VIII
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12 editions published between 1978 and 2005 in English and held by 502 libraries worldwide Presents a dramatization of William Shakespear's play Henry VIII.
The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eight
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10 editions published between 1979 and 2009 in English and held by 501 libraries worldwide "One of Shakespeare's most elaborate 'pageant' plays, chronicling the life of an extraordinary English king."--Container insert.
The tragedy of King Lear
by William Shakespeare
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22 editions published between 1965 and 1979 in 3 languages and held by 481 libraries worldwide A recorded performance of Shakespeare's great tragedy about the legendary King Lear and his three daughters.
Thirteen at dinner
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 186 libraries worldwide Lord Edgeware isn't just dead. He's murdered, colder than a poached salmon. The killer of this snobbish husband of a giddy movie star will need the air-tightest of alibis - because Hercule Poirot is on the case.
All's well that ends well
by William Shakespeare
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7 editions published between 1964 and 1994 in English and held by 123 libraries worldwide
The Famous history of the life of King Henry the Eighth
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1 edition published in 1987 in English and held by 104 libraries worldwide Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play about Henry VIII's scandalous resolution to divorce Katharine of Aragon in favor of Anne Boleyn.
Number 10
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2 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 99 libraries worldwide "Open Britain's most famous door for a glimpse at the personal affairs that have unfolded over the centuries inside Number 10 Downing Street. Spanning the Napoleonic era to the 1920s, each episode tells the story of a great public statesman, and of the private individual whose passions, hopes, and fears played out within the narrow confines of Number 10"--Container.
The famous history of the life of King Henry the Eighth
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5 editions published between 1979 and 1991 in English and held by 78 libraries worldwide Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play, King Henry VIII, which spins a web of intrique and betrayal.
Coriolanus
by William Shakespeare
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3 editions published between 1963 and 1970 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 48 libraries worldwide
Elizabethan sonneteers and Spenser
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1 edition published in 1966 in English and held by 45 libraries worldwide Presents selections from the sonnets of Henry Howard, Philip Sidney, Fulke Greville, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Henry Constable, Barnabe Barnes, Richard Barnfield, William Alexander, John Davies of Hereford, and William Drummond on side 1 ; side 2 contains selections from the sonnets of Edmund Spenser.
What passing bell a commemoration in poetry and prose of the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the first World War
by Frederick Woods
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1 edition published in 1964 in English and held by 25 libraries worldwide
The famous history of the life of Henry the Eighth
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 20 libraries worldwide
Restoration and Augustan verse
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2 editions published in 1972 in Undetermined and English and held by 14 libraries worldwide An anthology of verse by English poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, Charles Sedley, Matthew Prior, Charles Mordaunt, and Johnathan Smith, among others.
The famous history of the life of King Henry the eighth
by William Shakespeare
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6 editions published between 1978 and 2007 in English and held by 12 libraries worldwide Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen.
Metaphysical poets
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in English and held by 11 libraries worldwide Presents selections from the secular poetry of Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Stanley, Henry King, Abraham Cowley, James Graham (Marquess of Montrose), Edmund Waller, Katherine Philips, and Andrew Marvell.
Macbeth
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 8 libraries worldwide A classic tragedy about the lust for power and its ultimate bloody consequences. Macbeth is a Scottish war hero whose insane ambition unleashes a cycle of violence. Prompted by the supernatural prophecy of three witches, Macbeth is then goaded by his lady into slaying King Duncan in order to assume the throne. He plunges further into murder and moral decay to keep the unsteady crown on his head.
Campion, Jonson, Herrick
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1 edition published in 1966 in English and held by 8 libraries worldwide Presents selections from the poems of Thomas Campion, Ben Jonson, George Wither, William Drummond, Robert Herrick, and James Shirley.
Metaphysical poets, Record 2: [secular
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1 edition published in 1965 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide more
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