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1) The Tempest
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This play revolves around an enchanted island, an exiled duke, young lovers and a framework of conspiracy as they affected dramatic and emotional romances.
3) King Lear
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
King Lear of Britain has decided to divide his kingdom into three parts, and to hand over the responsibilities of ruling to his three daughters. The two oldest daughters, Goneril and Regan, flatter their father insincerely, and are rewarded. Cordelia, the youngest, sincerely loves her father, but she cannot match her sisters' skill at false adulation. The king takes away her portion of the kingdom, despite the pleadings of some of his most loyal nobles....
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of Shakespeare's famous play which explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion by telling the story of Antony, the once-heralded leader who becomes stupified with passion and degenerates into a fool, and the multi-faceted Cleopatra.
7) Coriolanus
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The turmoil of war and political conflict sound the theme for the last of Shakespeare's tragedies. In this tragedy, Shakespeare studies the character of a soldier. Surrounded by war and political conflict, Coriolanus is a rock of strength, but a rock which nearly wrecks the ship of state.
8) Cymbeline
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (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.
9) Hamlet
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
King Henry, now in failing health and still embroiled in war, sends his second son Prince John of Lancaster to the battle. Prince John tricks and defeats the enemy while his older son, the Prince of Wales, is summoned away from Falstaff and his tavern circle to the king's bedside where he assumes the throne upon the death of the king.
11) Henry VI: Part I
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization by Shakespeare of King Henry VI's early days as king and the beginning of the long civil wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster. In the war with France, England is being driven off French soil. True to the popular view of the time, the French heroine Joan of Arc is characterized as a "minister of hell" and a wanton.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (212 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A drama of the civil war between The House of York and The House of Lancaster. Henry marries Lady Margaret of Anjou, but she despises him for his meekness and takes Suffolk as a lover. The new Queen, who also hates the Yorks (the White Roses), becomes the inspiration of the Lancastrians (the Red Roses). She and her followers are pitted against Richard, Duke of York, and his supporters, who include the Earl of Warwick, also known as "the King maker."...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Concludes the King Henry VI chronicles with the War of the Roses. York, as victor at St. Albans, contemptuously forces Henry to give him succession to the crown. The merciless Margaret captures and kills York, only to be captured herself and compelled to watch as the Yorkists slay her son. In a powerful soliloquy, the vile Duke of Gloucester reveals his plans to murder Henry VI.
14) Julius Caesar
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
15) King John
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's play about the weak and despicable King John, who tries to fend off the royal claims of Arthur, Duke of Brittany, who is supported by the King of France. In spite of the support of Faulconbridge, John alienates the English nobility and runs afoul of the Pope. In the end he is poisoned and his son Henry III becomes King.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A satire directed against intellectual pride and pedantry. The King of Navarre and three of his lords vow to spend three years in study and not to see any women. But when the Princess of France arrives with her three ladies, the men break their vow and fall in love with them.
17) Macbeth
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Driven by ambition and an unscrupulous wife, Macbeth murders the King of Scotland and claims the throne for himself. Haunted by ghosts and vexed by witches, he and his wife descend into the depths of madness and paranoia as they crumble beneath the weight of their crimes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cruel Angelo is left in charge of Vienna when the Duke pretends to leave town. Angelo revives an old law against fornication and sentences Claudio to death for seducing Juliet, Claudio's betrothed. Claudio's sister, Isabella, pleads for his life and Angelo offers to spare him in exchange for her virginity. Angelo's corruption and severity are punished when the Duke reveals that he has witnessed it all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blending tragedy and comedy, this play presents contrasts and ambiguities, the complexities of which lie in the character Shylock, its captivating villain. Is he a villain, a buffoon, or tragic hero?
Author
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (167 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sir John Falstaff, knowing that Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page control the money in their respective households, decides to seduce them, but they learn of his scheme and resolve to make a fool of him. A comic series of disguises and misadventures follows. This program views the Merry wives of Windsor as Shakespeare's attack on middle class propriety and hypocrisy. He challenges the belief that fidelity is mere lip service and a result of arranged, loveless...
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