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Presents William Shakespeare's comedy in which Claudio and Hero, awaiting their wedding, conspire to get the antagonistic Beatrice and Benedick to fall in love, unaware that they themselves are the targets of a more sinister plot; and includes an audio CD containing more than twenty scenes and excerpts from famous performances.
6) Hamlet
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English
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
8) Macbeth
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English
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2024 OSF Season
Classics with YA Pairs
Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2019
Say "Hello" to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Collection!
Classics with YA Pairs
Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2019
Say "Hello" to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Collection!
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
12) China
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Series
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Discusses the ways that Chinese children have amused themselves from ancient times to the present, with such games, toys, and sports as Chinese checkers, tangrams, paper folding, stilts, kites, ping pong, and martial arts.
13) The Trojan women
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English
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In his clear preface, Gilbert Murray says with truth that The Trojan Women, valued by the usage of the stage, is not a perfect play. It is only the crying of one of the great wrongs of the world wrought into music. Yet it is one of the greater dramas of the elder world. In one situation, with little movement, with few figures, it flashes out a great dramatic lesson, the infinite pathos of a successful wrong. It has in it the very soul of the tragic....
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Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 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 Mark Antony, the once-heralded leader who, though married to Fulvia of the Roman Empire, becomes stupified with passion and degenerates into a fool, living a life of decadence and conducting an affair with Queen Cleopatra of Egypt.
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Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
King Leontes unjustly accuses his wife Hermione of adultery with King Polixenes. He imprisons Hermione, who falls into a swoon he believes is death, and orders her infant daughter to be abandoned on the shore. Sixteen years later, their daughter falls in love with Polixenes's son and when they come to Leontes' kingdom, her identity is revealed. Leontes and Polixenes become friends again, and Hermione is found to be alive after all.
17) Henry VI, part I
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Publisher
Distributed by Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
Henry's early days as king. In the war with France, England is being driven off French soil. The beginning of the long civil wars between the houses of York and Lancaster.
Series
Mei Mei play and learn Chinese volume 1
Publisher
Mei Mei And Me
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
An active video using song & dance to teach Mandarin Chinese.
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Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
John Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in nine intensive acting workshops, demonstrating how the Company makes Shakespeare's classic plays accessible to modern audiences without compromising the text's integrity.
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