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English drama (Tragedy) English drama 17th century History and criticism English drama Early modern and Elizabethan English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism Feature films Film adaptations Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Film and video adaptationsSummary: On the brink of Civil War, King Henry IV (John Gielgud) attempts to consolidate his reign while fretting with unease over his son's seeming neglect of his royal duties. Hal (Keith Baxter), the young Prince, openly consorts with Sir John Falstaff (Orson Welles) and his company of "Diana's foresters, Gentlemen of the shade, Minions of the moon". Hal's friendship with the fat knight substitutes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHISummary: Key scenes of MacBeth are enacted by classically trained actors, then analyzed and interpreted by internationally renowned Shakespeare scholars. Insightful comments help explain meaning, characters, motives, background action and plot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TeleMedia Productions 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 MACSummary: Combines elements of analysis, history, biography, performance, and the personal passions of six presenters to tell the stories behind the stories of six Shakespeare plays. Includes interviews with actors, directors, and scholars; visits to key locations; clips from celebrated film and television adaptations; and illustrative excerpts from performances staged at Shakespeare's Globe in London...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHAWells, Stanley W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 WELMichell, John F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 MICKingsly, Ben
Summary: A retelling of Shakespeare's comic tale of identical twins, girls disguised as boys, practical joking, and love at first sight, set in the country of Illyria.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWESummary: 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 RICSmith, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SMIWills, Garry
Summary: "Shakespeare's plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe's Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 WILShakespeare, William
Summary: In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare created one of the greatest verbal sparring matches in all of literature, echoes of which can be heard in the sophisticated comic dialogue of such late masters as George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon Audio 1996
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
Summary: A stunning performance of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy of young love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing 1993