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2) The Bacchae
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Series
Publisher
Applause
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Euripides turned to playwriting at a young age, achieving his first victory in the Athens' City Dionysia dramatic competitions in 441 BC. He would be awarded this honor three more times in his life, and once more posthumously. His plays are often ironic, pessimistic, and display radical rejection of classical decorum and rules. In 408 BC, Euripides left war-torn Athens for Macedonia, upon the invitation of King Archelaus, and there he spent his last...
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Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
One of William Shakespeare's most popular and brilliant comedies, "Twelfth Night" features a gender-bending/mistaken identity/double-marriage-at-the-end plot that has enshrined this play as a favorite among audiences and critics alike.
A terrible shipwreck occurs off the coast of the kingdom of Illyria and a young girl - Viola - is plucked from the ocean by a group of sailors and set on shore alone, believing her twin brother Sebastian to have...
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English
Description
It's Christmas in 1183, and the court of King Henry II explodes with royal family drama. Conflict develops between the king and his long estranged wife Eleanor of Aquitaine as they each struggle for power. As Prince Richard and Prince John join the family squabbling, resulting alliances from the marital conflict could change the course of England forever.
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Series
Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
One of William Shakespeare's most disturbing and brilliant works, "Titus Andronicus" is a powerful examination of retribution, honor, and revenge.
Roman General Titus Andronicus, after a ten-year campaign waging war against the Goths, returns home with five prisoners: Queen Tamora, her three sons and the pitiless and wrathful Aaron the Moor. In the Roman tradition, Titus sacrifices one of Tamora's sons to make up for the loss of his own children...
7) Medea
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The influence of Euripides on the development of the dramatic genre cannot be overstated. Along with Sophocles and Aeschylus he is regarded as one of the three great Greek tragedians from classical antiquity. One of the most important of Euripides' surviving dramas is "Medea", the story of its title character, the wife of Jason of the Argonauts, who seeks revenge upon her unfaithful husband when he abandons her for a another bride. Set in Corinth...
8) Macbeth
Series
Publisher
BBC TV
Pub. Date
c1982.
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth.
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Series
Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
"Padua holds many suitors for the hand of fair Bianca, but Bianca may not be married until her spinster sister Kate is wed. Could any man be rash enough to take Kate on? The witty adventurer Petruchio undertakes the task. While he sets about transforming Kate from foul-tempered termagant to loving wife, young Lucentio and his clever servant Tranio plot to win Bianca. The result is a sparkling comedy of self-delusion and disguise, set in the context...
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Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. Composed at the end of Shakespeare's career, the play contains some of his most lyrical dramatic verse.
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Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
"Julius Caesar has become the most powerful man in Rome. Does his power now threaten the very existence of the Republic itself? A conspiracy is hatched, one that will have fatal consequences not only for Caesar and the conspirators, but for the future history of the Ancient World. At its heart is the noble Burus, caught in a tragic conflict between private affection and public duty."--container.
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Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
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"Rosalind, daughter of the deposed Duke Senior, is exiled from the court by her wicked uncle. Disguising herself as a young man and accompanied by her cousin Celia and their loyal fool Touchstone, she takes refuge in the Forest of Arden. In the forest Rosalind meets young Orlando with whom she is in love, but her male disguise complicates matters, expecially when Rosalind finds she has unwittingly attracted the shepherdess Phebe"--Container.
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Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
This play involves the separation, then reunion, of Egeon and Emelia (husband and wife); their twin sons, Antipholus of Ephesus (A.E.) and Antipholus of Syracuse (A.S.); and their twin servants, Dromio of Ephesus (D.E.) and Dromio of Syracuse (D.S.). The family is separated at sea during a storm, 33 years before the present. Egeon, A.S., and D.S. survive together and grow up in Syracuse. Seven years before the present, they decide to search, separately,...
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Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
"King Leontes of Sicilia is seized by sudden and terrible jealousy of his wife Hermione, whom he accuses of adultery. He believes the child Hermione is bearing to have been fathered by his friend Polixenes, and when the baby girl is born he orders her to be taken to some wild place and left to die. Though Hermione's child escapes death, Leontes' cruelty has terrible consequences. Loss paves the way for reunion, and life and hope are born out of desolation...
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Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
The young and virtuous physician's daughter Helena desperately loves Count Bertram, but he regards her as beneath his notice, so when Helena cures the King of France of a mortal illness, and he rewards her with Bertram's hand, the Count flees before their marriage can be consummated, and Helena has to use deception, disguise and all her resources to win him back.
19) The tempest
Series
Plays volume 9
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Prospero brings King Alonso, Duke Antonio and court attendants safely ashore. Unbeknown to the rest of the castaways, Ferdinand, the King's son, arrives separately and meets Miranda, Prospero's daughter. The two fall in love. The missing Ferdinand is assumed drowned. Alonso repents of his past deeds, believing Ferdinand's death was punishment for his own wrongdoing. Prospero, convinced that his false brother and the king have reformed, reveals himself...
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