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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This important new omnibus edition features an illuminating foreword by playwright John Guare and an extensive afterword for each play drawing on unpublished letters and other unique documentary material prepared by Tappan Wilder. Our Town: Wilder's timeless 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning look at love, death, and destiny is celebrated around the world and performed at least once each day in the United States. The Skin of our Teeth: Wilder's 1942 romp...
2) Macbeth
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
General discussion of Shakespeare's life, world and Theater.Dramatic criticism from the past and the present.
3) Richard II
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Classic Books Library presents this new beautiful edition of William Shakespeare's play, "Richard II". This edition features a specially commissioned new biography of William Shakespeare. The play is the first in Shakespeare's tetralogy chronicling the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, and covers the battle for power between King Richard and Henry Bolingbroke (who would eventually be Henry IV). Embezzlement, exile and an uprising...
5) Cymbeline
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Presents Shakespeare's play of romantic intrigue and misadventure, and includes an essay on the theatrical world of the playwright, an introduction, and a note on the text used.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet Classics
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Second revised edition.
Language
English
Description
This new, updated package of Shakespeare's depiction of the rise and fall of a British king features a new overview of the playwright's life, new critical essays, and an up-to-date stage history of the play.
7) Rob Roy
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The story of the Scottish rebel and his Highlands clansmen and their fight to save themselves from obliteration. Contains the original theatrical trailer.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
King Henry VIII: young, sexy and the most powerful man in the world. The throne and the entire world became his at age 19. This television series reveals the early years of the passionate, vibrant and scandalous man who forever changed the course of history.
11) My boy Jack
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
It's 1914 and the British Empire's greatest supporter, Rudyard Kipling, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack, is determined to play his part in the immiment war with Germany but finds himself rejected due to his poor eyesight. Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission in the Irish Guards. Kipling's wife, Caroline, is bitterly upset, failing to see the glory in losing her only son to the war. How will the great writer,...
12) John Adams
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Description
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.
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