A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens

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Roman bath in Bath England

01 – Ancient England and the Romans

02 – Ancient England Under the Early Saxons

03 – England Under the Good Saxon, Alfred

04 – England Under Athelstan and the Six Boy-Kings

05 – England Under Canute the Dane

06 – England Under Harold Harefoot, Hardicanute, and Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor

07 – England Under Harold the Second, and Conquered by the Normans

08 – England Under William the First, the Norman Conqueror

09 – England Under William the Second, Called Rufus

10 – England Under Henry the First, Called Fine-Scholar

11 – England Under Matilda and Stephen

12 – England Under Henry II

13 – England Under Richard The First, Called The Lion-Heart

Richard_the lion hearted by Merry-Joseph Blondel

14 – England Under King John, Called Lackland

15 – England Under Henry The Third, called , of Winchester

16 – England Under Edward the First, Called Longshanks

Edward I of England

17 – England Under Edward the Second

18 – England Under Edward the Third

19 – England Under Richard the Second

20 – England Under Henry the Fourth, Called Bolingbroke

21 – England under Henry the Fifth

King Henry V
22 – England under Henry the Sixth

23 – England under Edward the Fourth

24 – England Under Edward the Fifth

25 – England Under Richard the Third

26 – England Under Henry the Seventh

27 – England Under Henry the Eighth, Called Bluff King Hal

28 – England Under Henry the Eighth

29 – England Under Edward the Sixth

30 – England Under Mary

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31 – England Under Elizabeth

32 – England Under James I
33 – England Under Charles the First

34 – England Under Oliver Cromwell

35 – England Under Charles the Second, Called the Merry Monarch

36 – England Under James the Second

37 – Epilogue

Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare

Hamlet Playscene by Harold Copping

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Miranda, The Tempest by JW Waterhouse

00 – Preface

01 – The Tempest

02 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

03 – Winter’s Tale

04 – Much Ado About Nothing

Dogberry examining Conrade and Borachio from Much Ado about Nothing

05 – As You Like It

06 – Two Gentlemen of Verona

07 – Merchant of Venice

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Shakespeare's Shylock by Charles Buchel

08 – Cymbeline

09 – King Lear

10 – Macbeth

11 – All’s Well That Ends Well

12 – Taming of the Shrew

13 – Comedy of Errors

Juliet by JW Waterhouse

14 – Measure for Measure

15 – Twelfth Night

16 – Timon of Athens

17 – Romeo and Juliet

18 – Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Ophelia by JW Waterhouse

19 – Othello

20 – Pericles, Prince of Tyre

The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge

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Holland, two windmills

01 Story of the Netherlands

02 – Brave Little Holland

03- A Wealth of Herrings

04 – A Dutch Reformer


05 – The Story of Martin Luther

Luther posting his 95 theses

06 – The Diet of Worms

07 – An Historic Scene

08 – How the Trouble Began

09 – The Storm Bursts

10 – Beggars of the Sea

11 – The Massacre of Bartholomew

12 – The Siege of Leyden

13 – William the Silent

14 – England

15 – Elizabeth’s Sailors

16 – Drake’s Voyage Round the World

The Spanish Armada off the English coast by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen

17 – The Great Armada

18 – Among the Icebergs

19 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert

20 – Virginia

21 – Story of the Revenge

22 – Sir Walter Raleigh

Una and the Lion from Spenser's Faerie Queene

23 – The Fairy Queen

24 – The Great Dramatist

Queen Elizabeth I in coronation robes
25 – The Golden Days of Good Queen Bess

26 – First Voyage of the East India Company

27 – The Story of Henry Hudson

28 – Captain John Smith

29 – The Founding of Quebec

30 – The Pilgrim Fathers

31 – Thirty Years of War

Thirty Years War Battle of Lutzen by Carl Wahlbom.

32 – The Dutch at Sea

33 – The Great South Land

34 – Van Riebeek’s Colony

35 – In the Days of Oliver Cromwell

36 – Two Famous Admirals

37 – De Ruyter

38 – The Founder of Pennsylvania

39 – The ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’

40 – The House of Orange

William II of Orange by Van Dyck

41 – William’s Invitation

42 – The Struggle in Ireland

43 – The Siege of Vienna by the Turks

44 – The Greatness of France

45 – The Story of the Huguenots

46 – The Greatest General of His Age

47 – The Battle of Blenheim

Peter the Great1838 by Delaroche

48 – How Peter the Great Learned Shipbuilding

49 – Charles XII of Sweden

50 – The Boyhood of Frederick the Great

51 – Anson’s Voyage Round the World

52 – Maria Theresa

53 – The Story of Scotland

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

The Mock Marriage of Orlando and Rosalind by Walter Howell Deverell, public domain image

Summary: One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden disguised as a man. When her true love Orlando also shows up in the forest, she courts him without revealing her identity. Meanwhile, Phebe mistakenly falls in love with her disguise, Silvius pines for Phebe, Jacques philosophizes, and Touchstone makes fun of it all, and love and happiness triumph (for the most part) as Rosalind orchestrates a happy ending amid the confusion. (Summary by Rosalind Wills for Librivox)

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Total running time:  2 hours, 24 minutes

Rosalind by Robert Walker Macbeth, public domain image

Dramatis Personae

Act 1

Act 2

Rosalind and Celia by Hugh Thomson, public domain image

Act 3

Act 4

Act 5