Shakespeare

Approaches to Hamlet

VHS, 45 min., 1975

The many-sided Hamlet as portrayed by the four greatest Shakespearean actors of the last sixty years: John Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Nicol Williamson.

Macbeth

VHS, 112 min., 1975

This is Orson Welles’ powerful portrayal in Shakespeare’s classic. Moved by his own ambition and that of his wife, Macbeth murders Duncan, King of Scotland and seizes the crown. These events start a chain of reactions which lead Macbeth towards his own destruction. Black and white.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

VHS, 2 hrs., 1968

Peter Hall, long-time director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, brings Shakespeare’s play to the screen in this brilliant production that captures both the play’s comedy and its subtle undercurrent of melancholy. A fantasy of fairies, lovers, spells and magic.

Richard III

VHS, 2 hrs. 19 min., 1987

Laurence Olivier’s portrayal of William Shakespeare’s tragic, twisted, brooding king earned him a British Academy Award, an American Academy Award nomination and worldwide acclaim.

Shakespeare: Soul of an Age

VHS, 54 min., 1962

Using a narration compiled from fifteen plays, this NBC film traces the years of monarchy and civil war in England which forms the background of Shakespeare’s life. Magnificent landscapes of Wales, England, Scotland, and France reveal landmarks in the playwright’s life, while maps, woodcuts, and paintings document the influences on his work - and impact of Shakespeare’s work on his era.

Beowulf

VHS, 39 min., 1984

This journey into Celtic-British culture and the oral epic tradition leads through Caedmon and Bede and culminates in a detailed examination of the greatest masterpiece of the age, Beowulf, and of its protagonist who is our first tragic hero.

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism

VHS, 30 min., 1987

Produced to accompany the exhibit by the same name, this video is shot inside the Wordsworth exhibition in Chicago and features Michael C. Jaye and Johnathon Wordsworth. They explore manuscripts, paintings, and watercolors on display and bring to life the major themes of the Romantic period; the result is a stimulating, and visually sumptuous introduction to the age.

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William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism

The Rise of Greek Tragedy

VHS, 45 min., 1975

This film explains tragedy as a form and acquaints audiences with its foremost example, Oedipus the King. Photographed in the ancient Greek theater of Amphiaraion, using tragic masks, this production emphasizes the modernity and the eternity of the play, and its lasting emotional impact.

The Classical Age

VHS, 52 min., 1980

This film is devoted to the period between approximately 500 B.C. and the death of Alexander: the achievement of Pericles, Thucydides and Plato, the shape of Greek societies, the nature of Athenian democracy, the buildings, sculpture, pottery, and other writings.

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