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English
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Presents Shakespeare's dark comedy about young lovers and a Jewish money lender who demands a pound of flesh in payment for a debt. Includes explanatory notes on facing pages, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, a modern perspective essay, and an introduction to the play and the language of Shakespeare.
Author
Language
English
Description
A young woman's elopement with a dark-skinned foreigner. An evil manipulator, dead set on bloody revenge. A noble warrior, fatally consumed by jealousy. Shakespeare's play about the Moor who "loved not wisely but too well," comes to life in this intensely thrilling and beautifully illustrated retelling.
5) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Hepburn stars as a lonely secretary who travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love. She does, but with a very married man.
Author
Publisher
CeHache
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
Español
Description
Bassanio quiere casarse con Portia de Belmont, pero necesita dinero para cortejarla, así que le pide ayuda a su amigo Antonio, un rico comerciante. Antonio acepta ayudar a su amigo, pero no tendrá dinero disponible hasta el regreso de su barco.
Antonio, an antisemitic merchant, takes a loan from the Jew Shylock to help his friend to court Portia. Antonio can't repay the loan, and without mercy, Shylock demands a pound of his flesh. The heiress...
10) Death in Venice
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In Venice on holiday, composer Gustav Aschenbach encounters a young Polish boy and becomes obsessed with him, a secret passion that will lead to his doom.
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
12) The honey pot
Publisher
MGM/UA Home video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A millionaire pretends to be dying and summons three former mistresses to his bedside in Venice. He then lies back to enjoy their greedy scramble to inherit his fortune. One of them suddenly dies mysteriously, and an elaborate murder scheme unfolds.
13) Death in Venice
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. Setting Mann's story of queer desire and bodily decay against the music of Gustav Mahler, it is one of cinema₂s most exalted literary adaptations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. Another feature of this series includes dramatic criticism from the past and present: Commentaries by Nicholas Rowe, William Hazlitt, Edgar Elmer Stoll, Linda Bamber, Alexander Leggart, and Robert Smallwood. Special...
15) Pane e tulipani
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Accidentally left behind on vacation with her family, Rosalba decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice--which she extends, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovering her love for playing the accordion--until her tyrannical husband hires an amateur detective to bring her back home.
16) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. Setting Mann's story of queer desire and bodily decay against the music of Gustav Mahler, it is one of cinema's most exalted literary adaptations.
17) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonely secretary travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love.
18) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a tour de force of fearless vulnerability, Katharine Hepburn embodies the conflicting emotions that stir the heart of a lonely, middle-aged American tourist who is forced to confront her deep-seated insecurities when she is drawn into a seemingly impossible affair with a charming Italian shopkeeper amid the ancient city's canals and piazzas.
19) Don't look now
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A married couple takes an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences.
20) Don't look now
Series
Criterion collection volume 745
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A married couple takes an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences.
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