William Shakespeare
41) King John
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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.
42) Richard III
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Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (228 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's play about Richard of Gloucester, a self-proclaimed villian who usurps the crown. Through family machinations, political marriages and military coups, this play portrays the tumultous reign of King Edward IV and the ascension of Richard to the throne, an intricate period in English history.
43) Coriolanus
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Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
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Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Prince of Tyre is pursued by the vengeance of King Antiochus because he discovered the monarch's incestuous relationship with his daughter. Fleeing from place to place, Pericles is shipwrecked, courts, and marries Thaisa. Their child, Marina, raised by friends when Thaisa is believed to have died, is kidnapped by pirates and sold into a brothel before Thaisa is discovered alive and the family is joyfully reunited.
45) Hamlet
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English
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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.
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Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (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.
48) Cymbeline
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English
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The authoritative edition of Cymbeline from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
Cymbeline tells the story of a British king, Cymbeline, and his three children, presented as though they are in a fairy tale. The secret marriage of Cymbeline's daughter, Imogen, triggers much of the action, which includes villainous slander, homicidal jealousy, cross-gender...
Cymbeline tells the story of a British king, Cymbeline, and his three children, presented as though they are in a fairy tale. The secret marriage of Cymbeline's daughter, Imogen, triggers much of the action, which includes villainous slander, homicidal jealousy, cross-gender...
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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.
52) Titus Andronicus
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Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (167 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The noble Titus returns victorious to Rome bringing Tamora, Queen of the Goths as his captive. When one of Tamora's sons is condemned to die, she vows revenge and, aided by the villainous Aaron, she exacts a terrible retribution, inaugurating a grim cycle of rape, murder, and cannibalism.
53) Othello
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English
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Jealousy in love is one of the most common of human emotions. In Othello, Shakespeare combines this universal theme with perfectly structured scenes, a storyline that lingers in the memory and a prime example of a tragic hero, Othello himself. The result is perhaps his greatest triumph as a stage play. When the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity, audiences around the world have been held spellbound.
54) Henry IV, part 2
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English
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Henry IV, Part 2 is the only Shakespeare play that is a "sequel," in the modern sense, to an earlier play of his. Like most sequels, it repeats many elements from the previous work, Henry IV, Part 1. This play again puts on stage Henry IV's son, Prince Hal, who continues to conceal his potential greatness by consorting with tavern dwellers, including the witty Sir John Falstaff.
As in Part 1, Prince Hal and Falstaff seek...
As in Part 1, Prince Hal and Falstaff seek...
57) Julius Caesar
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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.
59) Henry V
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Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The third of Shakespeare's plays portraying the emergence of England's most admired national hero, Henry V. He unites his people as he embarks on the invasion of France, deals justly with traitors, tirelessly leads his soldiers to victory and ensures future peace by his marriage to the Princess of France. Shakespeare examines these qualities that make a successful ruler and shows the prince in terms of isolation and responsibility that his success...
60) Macbeth
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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.