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Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, directed by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), sets Shakespeare's definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. The film fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh Theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
42) The tempest
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (124 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. THE TEMPEST is a dramatic romance, weaving fancy and realism into a plot that speaks to audiences today. This timeless stage is set on an enchanted island, where an...
Publisher
Opus Arte
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Autumn 1918. A group of soldiers returns from the trenches. The world-weary Benedick and his friend Claudio find themselves reacquainted with Beatrice and Hero. As memories of conflict give way to a life of parties and masked balls, Claudio and Hero fall madly, deeply in love, while Benedick and Beatrice reignite their own rather more combative courtship.
44) Macbeth
Series
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book--the original copy of "The tragedie of Macbeth".
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of the stage production which relocates the action to a nameless 20th-century underground facility, offering a parable of the quest for power in the modern world.
Series
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
282 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
47) Thunderbolt
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 103 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A story from the burgeoning video industry of Nigeria combines melodrama and issues of ethnicity, gender, culture and identity in post-colonial Africa. Thunderbolt will come as a bolt out of the blue to most Americans, even aficionados of African cinema. It is one of the best examples of the little-known but burgeoning video industry of Nigeria. Most films in this Library of African Cinema catalog ironically are seen more in the West than in Africa...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a Venetian musician's daughter, Aemilia Bassano, who a decade after the death of Elizabeth I begs help from her former lover, William Shakespeare, when her son catches the plague.
"The daughter of a Venetian musician, Aemilia Bassano came of age in Queen Elizabeth's royal court. The Queen's favorite, she developed a love of poetry and learning, maturing into a young woman known not only for her beauty but also her sharp mind and a quick...
49) Enter the body
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the room beneath a theater stage, the ghosts of Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and other teenage girls who died tragically in Shakespeare's plays, share their experiences and trauma and get the chance to retell the stories of their lives in their own terms.
50) Whatshisface
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cooper Vega's family moves so often that he's practically invisible at any school he attends. Now they've relocated to the town of Stratford - where nobody even makes an effort to learn Cooper's name. To them, he's just . . . whatshisface.
Cooper's parents feel bad about moving him around so much, so they get him a fancy new phone. Almost immediately, it starts to malfunction. First there's a buzzing. Then there's a weird glare on the screen. Then...
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
©1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lean forward, grab on, and ride for adventure." So says Library Journal of J.A. Jance's last J.P. Beaumont mystery, Without Due Process. Now Jance's veteran police sleuth is back in Failure to Appear, tracking an insanely clever killer through the well-heeled world of actors, stage folk, and arts patrons. Beaumont doesn't exactly have a simple life, solving murders as one of the Rainy City's finest, staying sober one day at a time, and dealing with...
Author
Series
Imogen Quy mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Imogen Quy puts her sleuthing skills to work to uncover the truth behind a research fellow's mysterious death, and an undergraduate student confronts the suspected killer through an unorthodox production of Hamlet.
53) Anonymous
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne? Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxx, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From leading Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, a timely and insightful examination of what the world's greatest dramatist can teach us about life in an America riven by conflict. The United States has always been divided, but Americans from all walks of life have also always shared a deep affinity for the plays William Shakespeare, even if their meaning has been fiercely contested. For well over two centuries now, Americans of all stripes--presidents...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (781 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 210 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
"With Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works, author and book critic Professor Maureen Corrigan will take you on a tour of some of the most challenged and controversial works of literature, from the plays of Shakespeare to 21st-century best-sellers--even including the dictionary and classic fairy tales. You will explore the common reasons books have been and continue to be banned, including profanity, heresy, illicit or sexual content,...
56) Hamlet
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Full original text edition.
Physical Desc
463 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The dead still walk in Denmark. Already crushed by his father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage, the young prince Hamlet is confronted by his father's ghost, bearing terrible news: he didn't simply die. He was murdered. Now Hamlet lives only for his vengeance - no matter how many other people must die for it."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Lady Katherine's father is killed for being an illegally practicing Catholic, she discovers he was also involved in a murder plot against the reigning Queen Elizabeth I. She disguises herself as a boy and travels to London to take it one step further: kill the queen herself. She is cast in William Shakespeare's newest play, which is to be performed in front of Her Majesty. But the play is a plot to destroy the rebellion, masterminded by fellow...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (8 hr. 48 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Hollow crown: New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard; II King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2 and King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption,...
59) Roman + Jewel
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A hip-hopera version of Romeo and Juliet is racing towards Broadway and Jerzie Jhames is cast as the understudy below R & B megastar, Cinny. That would be amazing, but Jerzie had been told the lead was hers -- and when a video of her rehearsing with the leading man is leaked, the internet seems to agree! How much power can Cinny wield to keep the lead and leading man for herself?
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before by pre-ordering internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent - a witty, insightful journey through the playsand tales of our beloved Shakespeare. Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green... Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin...
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