Summary: 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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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHA

Summary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOL

Summary: When a trio of witches prophesy Macbeth's ascension to the throne, Lady Macbeth pushes her husband into a murderous spree. But once crowned king of Scotland, Macbeth sees ghastly visions, fueled by guilt and a new prophecy, that ensure his ultimate downfall.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2004

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS MAC

Summary: In 1930's Britain, in the wake of a bloody civil war, the younger brother of the new King sets in motion a monstrous scheme to claim the throne for himself. Updated version of Shakespeare's tale.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RIC

Summary: Adaptation of the stage production which relocates the action to a nameless 20th-century underground facility, offering a parable of the quest for power in the modern world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS MAC

McKellen, Ian

Summary: Ian McKellen perfoms some of Shakespeare's monologues on stage, with no props or costumes, and discusses some of the plays.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ACT

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2000

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS RIC

Summary: Joss Whedon's sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy about the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a sensual, tragic and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUC RATED PG-13

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MUC

Summary: A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 1980

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HAM

Summary: A presentation of William Shakespeare's chronicle play, Henry V, in which he attempted to present a full-length portrait of the ideal king in action, and used his loftiest rhetoric to this purpose.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Ambrose Video Publishing 2004

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HEN

Summary: In war-torn France, a sinister new battle awaits the Musketeers, as the swashbuckling hit series returns for a thrilling third installment. The royal bodyguards for Louis XllI, Athos, Aramis, Porthos and d'Artagnan are back to combat a dangerous new enemy lurking in the shadows of the city. It's a task that will challenge their allegiances to the crown, throw their personal lives into turmoil...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MUS

Summary: Prepare for more pulse-pounding thrills, more breathtaking action and more high-stakes heroism. The gallivanting royal bodyguards for King Louis XIII, Athos, Aramis, Porthos and d'Artagnan, are back for love, honor and adventure. Together, the inseparable Musketeers employ their bravery and skill to track down a missing Musketeer; become embroiled in a full-scale riot orchestrated by a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MUS

Summary: Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Wo

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WOL RATED NR

Summary: Major Sinclair Yeates is a retired English army officer who becomes a Resident Magistrate in pre-independence West Ireland. Living in a ramshackle country house surrounded by the community's eccentric inhabitants, Major Yeates struggles to apply judicial logic in a country where the inevitable never happens, but the improbable frequently does.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2015

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV IRI

Summary: A dramatization of William Shakespeare's historical play. Upon the murder of Richard II, Henry assumes the throne, and is immediately confronted with rebellion by Owen Glendower, Douglas of Scotland, Northumberland and his son Hotspur. The play also treats the moral development of the king's son Hal (later Henry V).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 1979

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HEN

Summary: In the late 19th century, as America's teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston, a city of so many firsts that overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RAC

Summary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PAR

Summary: High school student Futaro Uesugi accepts a job tutoring quintuplet sisters to help pay off his family's debt.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME QUI

Summary: Dark forces are moving outside the court and when a powerful Danish warlord Bloodhair attacks, Uhtred must lead Wessex's forces into battle. He captures Bloodhair's mysterious lover, the savage sorceress Skade, who throws a curse, and his world becomes blighted by tragedy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2018

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LAS

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LAS

Summary: Detective Murdoch seeks to find and protect his newly discovered son from the Black Hand gang. Meanwhile, Brackenreid's son has sprung loose from jail and is on the run, and Crabtree finds himself in a compromised situation as he tries to save Effie from her kidnappers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MUR

Summary: Following the shocking cliffhanger last season, Station House Number Four attempts to clear Murdoch's name after he is arrested for murder. Along the way, they encounter the greatest minds of the time, including Alexander Graham Bell and Helen Keller.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MUR

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Murdoch

Summary: Detective Murdoch continues his inventive detective work with Ogden's unflinching support even after an investigation leads him to a family member that he never knew about.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MUR