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Publisher
Opus Arte
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in the present day in the world of a women's prison, Brutus wrestles with his moral conscience over the assassination of Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony manipulates the crowd through his subtle and incendiary rhetoric to frenzied mob violence. What follows is the descent of the country into factions and the outbreak of civil war.
What makes a king? What makes a father? Shakespeare's monumental history play travels to the heart of family, duty,...
6) The tempest
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Television adaption of Shakespeare's play revolving around an enchanted island, an exiled Duke, young lovers, and a framework of conspiracy.
8) Coriolanus
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The last of Shakespeare's tragedies, in which Coriolanus, a strong and cruel soldier, brings about his own downfall through the flaws in his character.
10) The 39 steps
Author
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Samuel French acting ed.
Language
English
Description
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony® and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance!
11) Titus Andronicus
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
William Shakespeare's tragedy set in Roman times dealing with the revenge of Titus Andronicus for the atrocities committed against his family by Tamora, the captive queen of the Goths, and her faction.
Language
English
Description
With his wedding a week away, hot-blooded Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him, his best friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the jealous scheming of the rakish Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable unwittingly exposes the plot--and all the trouble proves to be much ado...
13) Julius Caesar
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Standard.
Language
English
Description
A play about power, assassination and revenge. Presents a broad range of historical personalities as complicated human beings in agonizing conflict with one another and themselves.
Author
Series
Biblioteca Paumape de literatura volume 2
Publisher
Paumape
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
2. ed.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Retellings of twenty of Shakespeare's best known plays, using the playwright's own words when possible.
15) Doctor Faustus
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In this filmed play, Doctor Faustus, restless for knowledge, forsakes scholarship for magic and makes a pact with the Devil: if the veil spirit Mephistopheles will serve him for 24 years, Faustus will yield his soul to the Devil after death. It isn't long before Faustus has doubts about the bargain, but Mephistopheles has plenty of entertainment at hand to distract Faustus from the terrifying reality of his position and the prospect of its agonizing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in England in 1606 affected Shakespeare and shaped the three great tragedies he wrote that year--King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it may have seemed to some that his prolific...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.
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