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1101) Throne of blood
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, directed by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), sets Shakespeare's definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. The film fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh Theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
1102) King Lear
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A New York Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters.
1105) Kiss me, Kate
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two feuding divorcees play characters in a musical version of Shakespeare's 'Taming of the shrew', fighting both on the stage, and behind the scenes.
1106) Much ado about nothing
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
With his wedding a week away, Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him, his best friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the jealous scheming of Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable unwittingly exposes the plot--and all the trouble proves to be much ado about nothing (111 min.)....
1107) As you like it
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Includes a plot summary by Brenda Williams, and introduction to Shakespeare by Leon Garfield, and Shakespeare today by Rex Gibson, all read by Simon Russell Beale. The music is by Shakespeare's English contemporaries and is arranged by Peter Hutchins.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Tenth anniversary DVD edition.
Language
English
Description
Cameron is the new kid in school who becomes smitten with the beautiful Bianca. But Bianca's overprotective and domineering father forbids Bianca to date unless her older sister Kat, an surly and hostile senior, does. In a bid to get Kat a boyfriend, Cameron sets up a plan to have the school stud, Joey Donnar, bribe Patrick Verona, an outcast senior with a rumor-filled past, to take Kat out on dates so he can go to the school's homecoming dance with...
Series
Criterion collection volume 830
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career that was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff; the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal, here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace.
1112) King of Texas
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
An aging Texas rancher must divvy up his land among his three daughters, but two of them are unhappy with what he is offering.
1113) King Lear
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow. After banishing Cordelia, his most loyal daughter, Lear is betrayed and cast out by her elder sisters Regan and Goneril. Meanwhile, evil brews at the Gloucester castle as Edgar falls victim to his brother's deception. As battle lines are drawn and backs are stabbed, Lear rages against a fearsome storm....
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens,...
1116) Scotland, Pa
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Fast food and ambition make up a daily special of murder and mystery 70's style.
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