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"As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright has never recovered, although she has just completed a work that she thinks is her best yet. It is based on the life of her ancestor Emilia Bassano, the first published female poet in England--and rumored...
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2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Before Citizen Kane and The War of the Worlds, prominent Harlem Renaissance Broadway actress Rose McClendon convinces untested 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare's Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem. The road to opening night proves to be a difficult one. This revolutionary 1936 production would change the world forever. Based on True Events.
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Offering an unusual and exceptionally clear insight into Shakespeare's philosophy and a viewpoint seldom considered, this book argues that his philosophy was consistent, consciously held, and profoundly Christian. Showing that Shakespeare appreciated the danger faced in writing at a time of major religious intolerance, it explains how the playwright used the medieval allegory of love to veil his ideas. Fresh and fascinating, this record also demonstrates...
4) H4
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2012.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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H4 translates Shakespeare's plays, Henry IV parts I and II, into a futuristic Los Angeles to explore political struggles in the black community.
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This collection of fourteen comedies and six tragedies retold in prose was first developed in the early 19th century by siblings Charles and Mary Lamb as an introduction for young readers to Shakespeare. As much as possible, the Lambs used Shakespeare's own words, especially in the tragedies.
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Depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans, Normand Chaurette écrit avec et contre Shakespeare. Dans Les Reines, la première pièce québécoise produite à la Comédie-Française, il a revu et corrigé Richard III du point de vue des personnages féminins. Entre un Othello inédit et sa récente traduction du Roi Lear, il a dû inventer une langue capable de rendre celle du dramaturge de Roméo et Juliette et du poète des Sonnets. Comment tuer Shakespeare...
8) Hamlet
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1990.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (135 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In Franco Zeffirelli’s brooding adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Mel Gibson stars as Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, haunted by the ghost of his murdered father. As he seeks vengeance against his scheming uncle Claudius (Alan Bates), who has usurped the throne and married his mother Gertrude (Glenn Close), Hamlet’s descent into madness blurs the line between sanity and obsession. Featuring stunning period visuals and a powerful cast,...
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2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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For this Romeo and Juliet, Joëlle Bouvier returns to the universality of the fable, evacuating a precise period or costumes that are too connoted, focusing her research on the heart of the drama.This creation is an encounter with the dancers of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève. “Together, we slipped our bodies into the sweetness or the fury of this music, we let ourselves be inspired by its rhythm, its flavour and its poetry to write the...
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"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018" Rhodri Lewis is Senior Research Scholar in English at Princeton University. He is the author of Language, Mind, and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke and William Petty on the Order of Nature.
An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language....
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"Shakespeare Without Tears" by Margaret Webster is an enlightening and accessible guide that demystifies the works of William Shakespeare, making them enjoyable and understandable for readers of all backgrounds. Webster, a renowned director, actress, and Shakespearean scholar, draws upon her extensive experience in the theatre to offer insights that bring Shakespeare's plays and characters to life.
In this engaging book, Webster breaks down the complexities...
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A fire in an antiquarian bookstore leads to the discovery of encrypted 17th-century letters that reveal the existence--and whereabouts--of a never-produced and completely unknown Shakespearean manuscript. The bookseller who finds the letters takes them to a professor, who places them with lawyer Jake Mishkin for safekeeping; when the professor is tortured and killed by Russian thugs, Jake takes off for England to find the manuscript himself.
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Mr. Burckhardt does not discuss the plays as theatre. Instead he states: "This book is concerned with what Shakespeare meant. I believe that Shakespeare's plays, to put it bluntly, have messages and that these messages are discoverable, in fact, statable.... Shakespeare not only abides our questions, he tells us what questions to ask; he took infinite pains to be precisely understood."
Originally published in 1968.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses...
17) Macbeth
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2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in this thrilling adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy about betrayal, war, and madness.
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Useful reference library volume 5
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William Shakespeare's standing as one of the great writers in the English language is universally recognized and unlikely to be seriously challenged now or in the foreseeable future. Although relatively little is known for certain about his life and personal beliefs, and only little more about the circumstances in which he wrote his celebrated plays and poetry, his influence upon literature, language and the wider culture remains profound and far-reaching....
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The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken...
20) King Lear
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2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (139 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In this compelling television adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, Ian Holm delivers a masterful performance as King Lear, an aging monarch who divides his kingdom among his daughters, igniting a devastating power struggle. As betrayal and madness ensue, Lear confronts the consequences of his decisions.





