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Dover books on literature and drama Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)) Greek tragedy in new translations No fear Shakespeare Penn Greek drama series Plays (BBC Audiobooks America) Widescreen DVD collection Works. 1984. Cambridge University Press Works. 1995 Works. 2003. Yale University PressFilter By Series
Dover books on literature and drama Great performances (WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)) Greek tragedy in new translations No fear Shakespeare Penn Greek drama series Plays (BBC Audiobooks America) Widescreen DVD collection Works. 1984. Cambridge University Press Works. 1995 Works. 2003. Yale University PressSummary: The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek-style masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS OEDShakespeare, William
Summary: Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian Senator. But Iago, Othello's malignant ensign, is determined to destroy their happiness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 999 ShaShakespeare, William
Summary: BBC Audiobooks America and Arkangel Productions present a fully-dramatized production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which explores the deep repercussions of political murder and betrayal on the human heart. Conspiracy swirls around Julius Caesar, a brilliant politician at the height of his power and popularity. As Caesar grows overly confident and ponders imperial rule, the Roman...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Summary: A classic of world literature, Goethe’s Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text’s varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles—dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. His rendition of Faust is the first faithful, readable, and elegantly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 832 GOEGuterson, David.
Summary: Left on a doorstep after his illegal au pair mother exacts a brutal revenge on his father, Edward is raised by an adoring family and grows up to become a famous billionaire Internet tycoon who hurtles toward a fate that he is powerless to control.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUTHeaney, Seamus
Summary: Sophocles' play stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the "treacherous" other,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882 HEAShakespeare, William
Summary: Romeo and Juliet is William Shakespeare's classic tragedy about a pair of star-crossed lovers whose romance is complicated by the mutual hatred of their families for one another. Written in the 1590s, it was, and continues to be, one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. Over the centuries, its characters have become iconic embodiments of idealized youthful love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fall River Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 822.3 SHAShakespeare, William.
Summary: 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. This macabre, often brilliant tragedy comes from the earliest stage of Shakespeare's dramatic career....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
Summary: Shakespearean scholars have redesigned this play in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original, including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction, and a note on the text.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHASophocles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882 SOPSummary: 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 MACSummary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROMGuterson, David.
Summary: In Seattle, 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary, "a guy who weighs risk for a living", takes a risk of his own, and makes the biggest error of his life. He sleeps with Diane, the sexy, not-quite-legal British au pair who's taking care of his children for the summer. Diane gets pregnant and leaves their baby on a doorstep, but not before turning the tables on Walter and setting in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GUTShakespeare, William
Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spark Notes 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 822.33 SHAEuripides.
Contents: 1. Medea. Hecuba. Andromache. The Bacchae -- 2. Hippolytus. Suppliant women. Helen. Electra. Cyclops -- 3. Alcestis. Daughters of Troy. The Phoenician women. Iphigenia at Aulis. Rhesus. -- 4. Ion. Children of Heracles. The madness of Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Orestes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882.01 EURMarlowe, Christopher
Contents: Christopher Marlowe -- The English Faust book and Doctor Faustus -- Religion and magic -- Appendix one: the date of the English Faust book and of Doctor Faustus -- Appendix two: A-text and B-text -- Suggestions for further reading and other editions of the texts -- A note on the texts -- Doctor Faustus (the A-text) -- The English Faust book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hackett Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 MARShakespeare, William
Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SparkNotes 2003
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 ShakeShakespeare, William
Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SparkNotes 2003
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2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHAGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 832.6 GOEShakespeare, William
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2007