William Shakespeare
1) Hamlet
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.
2) Macbeth
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Driven by ambition and an unscrupulous wife, Macbeth murders the King of Scotland and claims the throne for himself. Haunted by ghosts and vexed by witches, he and his wife descend into the depths of madness and paranoia as they crumble beneath the weight of their crimes.
3) Othello
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's play about the tragic consequences of jealousy. Othello appoints Cassio as his chief lieutenant, arousing the jealosy of Iago, who conspires to undo them both. Iago tells Othello that his wife, the beautiful Desdemona, is having an affair with Cassio. Othello strangles Desdemona before learning of Iago's evil, and then kills himself in remorse.
8) Henry VIII
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
"One of Shakespeare's most elaborate 'pageant' plays, chronicling the life of an extraordinary English king."--Container insert.
A dramatization of William Shakespeare's historical play, which tells of the intrigues during the first part of Henry's reign, his divorce from Katharine of Aragon, and marriage to Anne Bullen, who gives birth to a baby girl, Elizabeth.
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Details the transformation of a noble Athenian from a reckless spendthrift to a mad misanthrope.
A play about power, assassination and revenge. Presents a broad range of historical personalities as complicated human beings in agonizing conflict with one another and themselves.
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of Shakespeare's famous play which explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion by telling the story of Antony, the once-heralded leader who becomes stupified with passion and degenerates into a fool, and the multi-faceted Cleopatra.
11) King Lear
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's plays in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters.
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Sir John Falstaff, knowing that Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page control the money in their respective households, decides to seduce them, but they learn of his scheme and resolve to make a fool of him. A comic series of disguises and misadventures follows. This program views the Merry wives of Windsor as Shakespeare's attack on middle class propriety and hypocrisy. He challenges the belief that fidelity is mere lip service and a result of arranged, loveless...
13) King John
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's play about the weak and despicable King John, who tries to fend off the royal claims of Arthur, Duke of Brittany, who is supported by the King of France. In spite of the support of Faulconbridge, John alienates the English nobility and runs afoul of the Pope. In the end he is poisoned and his son Henry III becomes King.
14) Romeo & Juliet
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives.
15) Titus Andronicus
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
William Shakespeare's tragedy set in Roman times dealing with the revenge of Titus Andronicus for the atrocities committed against his family by Tamora, the captive queen of the Goths, and her faction.
16) Richard II
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of Shakespeare's play, the story of a rebellion against the corrupt Richard II.
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
A Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt, and death.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The historic production of Hamlet filmed on location at Elsinore, Denmark, the actual location where the play is set. The only production of Shakespeare's masterpiece ever filmed at Elsinore. This truly unique and thrilling production has not been seen in North America since its original premiere in 1964 on NET, the precursor to PBS.
Bonus disc: In conversation with Christopher Plummer: filmed live at the 2011 Sarasota Film Festival, NPR film critic...
