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• Kings and rulers -- Succession
• Kings and rulers -- Drama

• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

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• Beverly of Graustark (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1904), by George Barr McCutcheon, illust. by Harrison Fisher (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The Two Admirals: A Tale (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• The Two Admirals: A Tale (New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1871), by James Fenimore Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Admirals: A Tale (New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1872), by James Fenimore Cooper, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (page images at HathiTrust)
• We Few (included on a Baen CD image), by David Weber and John Ringo
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB

• The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1857), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• And Less Than Kind (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
• This Scepter'd Isle (on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• Ill Met by Moonlight (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)

• By Slanderous Tongues (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)

• History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third; To Which is Added The Story of Perkin Warbeck, From Original Documents (second edition; London: Longmans, Green, and co., 1879), by James Gairdner (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Vindication of His Majesty's Title to the Crown, as Being the Heir That is Qualified to Enjoy It: Shewing that No One can be Legally Qualified to be King of England That is Not Capable of Preserving the Constitution of England (London: Printed for J. Clarke, 1747), by W. Webster (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of King George II, and the Happy Accession of His Majesty King George III, to the Imperial Throne of Great-Britain (Boston: Edes and Gill, 1761), by Jonathan Mayhew
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• A Narrative of the Wicked Plots Carried On by Seignior Gondamore, For Advancing the Popish Religion and Spanish Faction (1679), by Richard Dugdale (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Letter to the Lord Bishop of Carlisle Concerning One of His Predecessors Bishop Merks: On Occasion of a New Volume for the Pretender, Intituled The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England Asserted (fourth edition; London: Printed by S. Buckey, 1717), by White Kennett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover, With an Enquiry How Far the Abdication of King James, Supposing it to Be Legal, Ought to Affect the Person of the Pretender (London: Printed for J. Baker, 1713), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• And What if the Pretender Should Come? or, Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great-Britain (published anonymously in 1713, but attributed to Defoe; this copy from an 1855 collection), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• An Answer to a Question that Nobody Thinks of, viz. But What if the Queen Should Die? (published anonymously in 1713, but attributed to Defoe; this copy from an 1855 collection), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• The Life, Death, and Actions of the Most Chast, Learned, and Religious Lady, the Lady Jane Gray, Daughter to the Duke of Suffolke (reprint of a book originally published 1615), contrib. by Jane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Absalom and Achitophel (based on the second edition, 1681), by John Dryden (HTML with commentary at Toronto)

• The Republic in Danger: Drusus Libo and the Succession of Tiberius (Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2012), by Andrew Pettinger (PDF with commentary at OUP)

• Public Debate in the Chamber of Próceres of the Cortes of Spain, at Their Session of the Third of September, 1834, in Which the Exclusion of the Prince Don Carlos and His Descendants, From Their Succession to the Crown, was Carried Without a Dissenting Voice (Philadelphia: Printed by J. Young, 1834), by Spain Cortes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Cymbeline Refinished (1937), by Bernard Shaw (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• King Lear, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

• Loues Labors Lost (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1907), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Love's Labor's Lost, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• Love's Labour's Lost (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)

• La Dame aux Camélias: Drame en Cinq Actes (new edition, in French; Paris: M. Lévy Frères, 1872), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

• Pericles, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• Pericles (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Pericles (fifth quarto, 1630), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)

• The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)
• Loues Labors Lost (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1907), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Love's Labor's Lost, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• Love's Labour's Lost (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)

• Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• Cymbeline (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Cymbeline (First Folio and modern texts), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Jennifer Forsyth (HTML and page images at uvic.ca)

• Malavikagnimitra; With the Ancient Commentaries of Nilakanta and Katayavema (Sri Vani Vilas Sanskrit Series #5; main text in Sanskrit, introduction in English; Srirangam: Sri Vani Vilas Press, 1908), by Kālidāsa, contrib. by Nīlakaṇṭha (Son of Bālakr̥ṣṇabhaṭṭa), Kāṭayavema, and T. K. Balasubrahmanya Aiyar
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Saul: a Drama in Three Parts (Montreal: H. Rose, 1857), by Charles Heavysege (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tecumseh: A Drama (London; Toronto: Chapman & Hall, Hunter, Rose; 1886), by Charles Mair
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Florizel and Perdita (adaptation of The Winter's Tale), by David Garrick and William Shakespeare (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Winters Tale (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by F. W. Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Winter's Tale (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Pandosto, by Robert Greene (HTML at Internet Shakespeare Editions)