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William Shakespeare
441) The tempest
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Television adaption of Shakespeare's play revolving around an enchanted island, an exiled Duke, young lovers, and a framework of conspiracy.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Henry VI, Parts I and II and Richard III tell the story of an exceptionally turbulent period in British history. These exhilarating and emotionally charged films feature some of Shakespeare's most eloquent and powerful language.
444) Julius Caesar
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
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.
Details the transformation of a noble Athenian from a reckless spendthrift to a mad misanthrope.
446) Henry IV, Part I
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
After the murder of Richard II, Henry assumes the throne, and is immediately confronted with rebellion by Owen Glendower, Douglas of Scotland, Northumberland and his son Hotspur. The play also treats the moral development of the king's son Hal (later Henry V) as he appears to waste his youth in London taverns in the company of the irresponsible Sir John Falstaff.
447) Richard II
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's historical play about the dynastic struggle between Richard II and Henry Bolingboke (later Henry IV).
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Close friends Valentine and Proteus become rivals for the hand of Silvia, daughter of the Duke of Milan, who has promised her to the foolish coward Thurio. Proteus has Valentine banished, but Silvia escapes to the forest to join him. Proteus follows, with Julia who dotes on him. After a confrontation, the Duke eventually allows Valentine and Silvia to wed, and Proteus marries Julia.
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
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.
450) Richard III
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's play about Richard of Gloucester, a self-proclaimed villian who usurps the crown. Through family machinations, political marriages and military coups, this play portrays the tumultous reign of King Edward IV and the ascension of Richard to the throne, an intricate period in English history.
453) 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....
454) 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.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After a shipwreck, twin siblings Viola and Sebastian wash up on the shores of Illyria. Viola, disguised as a man named Cesario, takes up service with the Duke Orsino, who is madly in love with the Lady Olivia. But Olivia is in mourning over her brother's death, so Orsino sends Cesario over as an emissary of love, except that Olivia falls for Viola!
456) King Lear
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1974
Language
English
Description
A New York Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
King Henry IV sees his reign marred by uprisings led by young Harry Hotspur and undercut by the impulsive, irresponsible actions of his son Prince Hal. As stakes get even higher, both sides converge in the epic battle of Shrewsbury.