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Richard III: An Arab Tragedy Tours the World Stage
Item# 50412
© 2012
58 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-476-8
Cofounder of London’s Zaoum Theatre Company and its Arabic-world counterpart, SABAB Theatre, Kuwaiti-born director Sulayman Al Bassam uses his stage productions to explore contemporary issues of ident...
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Hollow Crowns: Shakespeare and Us
Item# 52577
© 2012
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-408-9
Because his theater company often performed at court, Shakespeare was able to observe the frailty, vanity, and folly of kings firsthand, thus fueling his obsession with what lay behind the mask of roy...
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Shakespeare and Us
Item# 52575
© 2012
120 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-406-5
In this two-part series, Simon Schama explores the life and times of William Shakespeare to shed a new and fascinating light on some of the greatest plays ever written. The programs takes a close look...
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This England: Shakespeare and Us
Item# 52576
© 2012
60 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-407-2
In Henry IV and Henry VI, Shakespeare explored English history and the English character in a new and unprecedented way. His England wasn’t just a place where monarchs paraded and commoners were releg...
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New to Our Collection! The Playboy of the Western World
Item# 50917
© 2011
128 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-808-7
Performed by the Druid Theatre Company of Galway, this production of The Playboy of the Western World was heralded as possibly the most definitive version of John Millington Synge's masterpiece. The p...
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All's Well That Ends Well: Live from Shakespeare's Globe
Item# 50577
© 2011
138 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-537-6
Helena loves the arrogant Bertram, and when she cures the king of France of a deadly illness, she claims Bertram as her reward. But her brand-new husband attaches two obstructive conditions to their m...
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Much Ado About Nothing: Live from Shakespeare's Globe
Item# 50578
© 2011
166 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-538-3
Claudio loves Hero and Hero Claudio, and nothing seems capable of tearing them apart. Claudio’s friend Benedick loves Beatrice and vice versa, but since neither of them will admit to such depth of fee...
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Henry IV, Part 1: Live from Shakespeare's Globe
Item# 47572
© 2011
167 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-385-2
King Henry IV has deposed Richard II to claim the throne of England but feels deeply troubled by his actions. Is God punishing Henry for Richard’s murder by giving him Hal—who spends drunken evenings...
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Henry IV, Part 2: Live from Shakespeare's Globe
Item# 47573
© 2011
172 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-386-9
Henry IV is dying as Prince Hal matures from a rebellious idler into a young man fit to assume the crown. Falstaff has stopped drinking long enough to raise a militia—but will his abiding devotion to...
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Henry VIII: Live from Shakespeare's Globe
Item# 47574
© 2011
161 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-387-6
The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the ambitious, manipulative Cardinal Wolsey, the king’s first minister. When Henry seeks to use Wolsey’s influence in Rome to disso...
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