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Author
Publisher
Hogarth Shakespeare
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play The taming of the shrew. Kate Battista runs the house for her father and younger sister Bunny; her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents dont always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. When her father's lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported just as they are on the verge of a breakthrough, Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that relys on Kate to help him. Will...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 72 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Sex and power drive the action of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Set in today's British army this is a modern realization of a classic problem play where every character must justify their own private morality in a world bereft of discipline and authority. Critics rave that this contemporary dramatization is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A tongue-in-cheek conclusion to the best-selling series that adapts Star Wars scripts in Shakespeare's iambic pentameter augments the story of the fall of the house of Skywalker with stirring soliloquies, inside jokes and Elizabethan-style illustrations.
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet ([4] pages : color illustrations).
Language
English
Description
Helena loves the arrogant Bertram, and when she cures the King of France of his sickness, she claims Bertram as her reward. But her new husband, flying from Helena to join the wars, attaches two obstructive conditions to their marriage--conditions he is sure will never be met. ... Featuring Olivier-award winning actress Janie Dee as the Countess of Roussillon, Sam Crane as Bertram, and Ellie Piercy as Helena--Container.
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (173 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This romance revolves around a theme that occupied Shakespeare later in life: reconciliation. Wrongs committed by one generation--here a wife unjustly accused of adultery--are made right by the next generation.
12) Macbeth
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eleventh century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes him king. But he does not enjoy his newfound, dearly-won kingship.
13) Henry VIII
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet of notes ([4] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the country's most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power. Wolsey's ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally, Queen Katherine, interferes in the King's romance with Ann Boleyn, he brings ruin upon himself, the Queen and centuries of English obedience to Rome--Container.
14) Romeo and Juliet
Series
Criterion collection volume 1171
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Considered one of the great Shakespeare adaptations, it was the first to cast actual teenagers in the lead roles. Young lovers have an affair which threatens to inflame the tensions between their feuding families during the Renaissance.
15) Cymbeline
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
King Cymbeline's evil second queen forces the king to banish his daughter Imogen's husband, Posthumus. While the queen tries to force Imogen to marry her own son, Posthumus flees to Rome. There he is tricked into believing Imogen has been unfaithful. Imogen disguises herself as a boy and flees the court.