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Series
Plays volume 5
Publisher
Bard Productions
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's timeless comedy of lovers' seductions, fanciful deceits and marital fidelity.
9) The tempest
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An interpretation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest, with elaborate staging and modern touches. It tells the story of Prospero, the magician, who lives with his nubile daughter on an enchanted island and punishes his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. It's a study of sexual and political power in the guise of a fairy tale.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
It's the greatest literary mystery of all time: Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? Although the official story of a Stratford merchant writing for the London box office has held sway for centuries, questions over the authorship of the plays and poems persists. Derek Jacobi leads an impressive cast featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Mark Rylance on a quest to uncover the truth behind the world's most elusive author, and discovers a forgotten nobleman...
Series
Shakespeare collection volume 8
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of Shakespeare's play about the courtship of a beautiful but sharp-tempered woman by her persistent suitor.
14) The tempest
Series
Publisher
Opus Arte
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Widely considered to be the last of his solo plays, The Tempest is Shakespeare's final masterpiece, a tale of 'forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment' in which Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, conjures up a storm to lure his perfidious brother to the enchanted island on which he and his daughter Miranda have spent 12 years in exile"--Container.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A comedy about the greatest love story almost never told. When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before. There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else, she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Various landmarks which were significant in the life of William Shakespeare and which invoke the atmosphere of the age of Elizabeth are pictured. Sir Michael Redgrave recites illustrative passages from key speeches in Shakespeare's chronicles, comedies, and tragedies.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
How Shakespeare used poetry to heighten the dramatic effect. How Polysyllables trip easily off the tongue while monosyllabic lines and word are packed with thoughts and feelings. Poetic phrases which say more than what they actuyally describe. The hidden poetry in seeminly unpoetic lines. The word 'time' and 'death.' Contrast and sudden changes in Shakespeare.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
What is blank verse? Why is it better for drama than other verse forms? How should it be read? In the course of trying out different stresses, the actors discover how Shakespeare uses antithesis, short lines, end-stopped lines, and pauses in the middle of a line.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
How Hamlet's advice to the players expresses Shakespeare's direction that the actors be natural and not false or grotesque. Deliberate and striking inconsistencies in Shakespearean characters. Balancing heightened language and naturalistic performance, emotion and intellect. How Shakepseare's language affects the audience.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Understanding the intended irony in a phrase or speech totally changes the perception of the character speaking. Irony in a dramatic text must emerge in the reading - in the stress on words and the emphasis on antithesis. John Barton analyzes several Shakespearean texts with the actors.