William Shakespeare
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When veteran award-winning radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua was a student in his final semester at Kean College in 1982, he produced and directed a radio version of Hamlet.
Casting Kean faculty and students, and portraying the melancholy Danish prince himself, Bevilacqua not only completed his nearly four-hour radio adaption of Shakespeare's greatest work, he did so while carrying a double major, producing, acting in, and sometimes writing radio...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew" follows the experiences of a preschool teacher who alienates others by speaking her mind and who is expected by her eccentric father to marry his assistant to prevent the young man's deportation.
11) As you like it
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Banished to the Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a boy, reunites with true love Orlando. Presented in comic book format.
Author
Series
Arden High volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
New student Vi finds herself falling for Orsino, even though he wants Vi's help asking Olivia to the school dance.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Waitlisted by her dream college and questioning her identity, Leah steps down as cheer captain to focus on her future, but when the competition for captaincy goes awry, power-hungry twins take command of the squad and immediately pit the cheerleaders against the basketball team.
15) King Lear
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
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....
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Appears on list
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.)....
17) Romeo and Juliet
Series
Criterion collection volume 1171
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Considered one of the great Shakespeare adaptations, it was the first to cast actual teenagers in the lead roles. Young lovers have an affair which threatens to inflame the tensions between their feuding families during the Renaissance.
18) Othello
Series
Criterion collection volume 870
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.