Royal Shakespeare Company
2) The young person's guide to Shakespeare: with performances on CD by the Royal Shakespeare Company
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Description
55 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Provides information about William Shakespeare's family life and work as a playwright and actor, summaries of his works, and details and challenges of staging Shakespearean productions. Includes a CD with performances from selected Shakespearean plays and sonnets by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company.
4) Hamlet
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 182 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 Blu-ray disc (approximately 148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Set just after World War I, this play focuses on relationships. Friends Benedick and Claudio return from the war and reacquaint themselves with Beatrice and Hero. Claudio and Hero fall in love, while Benedick and Beatrice continue their argumentative relationship.
7) Coriolanus
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This generously annotated updated edition of Coriolanus provides a thorough reconsideration of Shakespeare's remarkable, and probably his last, tragedy. A substantial introduction situates the play within its contemporary social and political contexts - dearth, riots, the struggle over authority between James I and his first parliament, the travails of Essex and Ralegh - and pays particular attention to Shakespeare's shaping of his primary source...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two Gentlemen of Verona is commonly agreed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, and probably his first play. A comedy built around the confusions of doubling, cross - dressing and identity, it is also a play about the ideal of male friendship an what happens to those friendships when men fall in love. William Carroll's engaging Introduction focuses on the traditions and sources that stand behind the play and explores Shakespeare's unique and bold treatment...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
xvi, 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction Neil MacGregor and his team at the British Museum, working together in a landmark collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC, bring us twenty objects that capture the essence of Shakespeare's universe and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Description
xvi, 320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction Neil MacGregor and his team at the British Museum, working together in a landmark collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC, bring us twenty objects that capture the essence of Shakespeare's universe and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I.
15) Twelfth night
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelfth Night is a recommended text for A Level OCR English Literature. In this edition of Twelfth Night, illustrations have been extended and updated; the preliminary notes have been expanded; reading lists have been updated, and include websites; and the classroom notes have been brought in line with recent practice.
Twelfth Night, in the popular Oxford School Shakespeare series, updated with a fresh new look. Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed...
20) King Lear
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 173 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Proposing to divide his vast kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cornelia, Lear devises a test for his offspring to convince him of their suitability and compassion for rule. Goneril and Regan's true colors emerge, they uncover a vast conspiracy of greed and cruelty within the once loyal dynasty.
