Shakespeare, William
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHASummary: From the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, this production of Shakespeare's rollicking classic battle of the sexes stars Len Cariou as Petruchio, the strutting male chauvinist suitor who sets out to undermine the spirit of young Katharina. Taped before a live audience, this production is treated in a solidly traditional fashion by British stage director Peter Dews, retaining the integrity of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1982
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Summary: Petruchio is a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona who journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After the honeymoon, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. In reality, Kate has found a more effective way to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAMShakespeare, William
Summary: The marriage of two strong-minded people provides the spark for a comic confrontation between the sexes: The "shrew," Kate, is so ill-tempered she seems unlikely to find a husband. Her father refuses to let her younger sister marry until Kate is off his hands. Petruchio appears, marries Kate, and "tames" her so well that he wins a bet with two other men on a test of their wives' obedience.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
Summary: The complete text with explanations and an easy translation to help you understand the play.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spark Notes 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Play ShakespeareCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 822.33 SHASummary: Meet Katherine Minola, Member of Parliament and aspiring Prime Minister. When her advisers suggest that she marry, she reacts with the same fury she brings to everything-and everyone. But one man is going to change her outlook: enter Petruchio. Screenwriter Sally Wainwright updates Shakespeare's romantic farce, with Shirley Henderson as the irascible Katherine; Jaime Murray as her supermodel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Shakespeare, William
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1963
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books Inc. 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 999 ShaTyler, Anne
Summary: Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play "The taming of the shrew."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth Shakespeare 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYLCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYLCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Tyler 2016McCann, John
Summary: Whimsical visual adaptations of four Shakespearean comedies, rendered in LEGO bricks, feature scene-by-scene reenactments accompanied by captioned excerpts from the plays.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 MCCGarfield, Leon.
Summary: An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1985
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 822.33 GARSummary: 36 half-hour lectures by a Dartmouth College professor critically examine Shakespeare's plays. Accompanying course guidebook includes a summary, outline, reading list(s), and study questions for each lecture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1999
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 WILCall number: DVD 822.33 WIL
Summary: Six celebrated hosts to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays, revealing not just the elements in the play, but the history of the play itself. What sparked the creation of each of these works? Where did Shakespeare get his plots, and what cultural, political and religious factors influenced his writing? Why has this body of work endured so thoroughly? What, in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHASmith, Emma (Emma Josephine)
Summary: "An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard's inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality. A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulatethe human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SMISummary: Macbeth is the chef in a 3-star restaurant; Beatrice and Benedict are rival co-anchors; Titania and Bottom carouse in a tawdry theme resort; and Petruchio sets out to tame the conservative Kate in a politically incorrect marriage of convenience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Tanner, Tony.
Contents: The comedy of errors -- The taming of the shrew -- The two gentlemen of Verona -- Love's labor's lost -- Romeo and Juliet -- A midsummer night's dream -- The merchant of Venice -- The merry wives of Windsor -- Much ado about nothing -- As you like it -- Twelfth night -- All's well that ends well -- Measure for measure -- Henry VI, part one -- Henry VI, part two -- Henry VI, part three --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 TANSummary: Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KISTyler, Anne
Summary: A modern retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew" follows the experiences of a preschool teacher who alienates others by speaking her mind and who is expected by her eccentric father to marry his assistant to prevent the young man's deportation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TYLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Tyler 2016Summary: Shakespeare/ Plays and Sonnets: King henry the Sixth--Tragedy of Richard the Third--Comedy of Errors--Titus Andronicus--Taming og the Shrew--Two Gentlemen of Verona--Love's Labors Lost--Romeo and Juliet--Tragedy of King Richard the Second--A Midsummer-Night's Dream--Life and Death of King John--Merchant of Venice--King Henry the Fourth--Much Ado About Nothing--King Henry the Fifth--Julius...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Great v. 24 Shakespeare ISummary: In this westernized version of The taming of the shrew, John Wayne stars as cattle baron George McLintock and Maureen O'Hara assumes the role of his estranged wife. In an effort to get on with his life, McLintock saves a beautiful but impoverished widow from resettlement and hires her as his cook, welcoming both her and her two children into his home. Sparks begin to fly and McLintock's simple...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Home Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Cameron is the new kid in school who becomes smitten with the beautiful Bianca. But Bianca's overprotective and domineering father forbids Bianca to date unless her older sister Kat, an surly and hostile senior, does. In a bid to get Kat a boyfriend, Cameron sets up a plan to have the school stud, Joey Donnar, bribe Patrick...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010