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Shakespeare: Audio/Video

Audio

The Library has various audio materials on Shakespeare available in its collection. Included in the collection are audio recordings of Shakespeare's plays on CD, and recordings of lectures given at St. John's College on Shakespeare's works. Please see below for a sampling of the materials available in the Library to check out.

Shakespeare's Works on CD

As You Like It by William Shakespeare; Vanessa Redgrave (Read by)
Call Number: CD 0311

ISBN: 0694516651

Publication Date: 1997-01-17
Hamlet by William Shakespeare; Kenneth Branagh (Read by); Julie Christie (Performed by); Dramatization Staff (Read by)
Call Number: CD 0006

ISBN: 0553455362

Publication Date: 1993-11-01
Henry V by William Shakespeare; Samuel West (Read by)
Call Number: CD 0083

ISBN: 9626342056

Publication Date: 2000-10-01
King Lear by William Shakespeare; John Gielgud (Read by); Dramatization Staff
Call Number: CD 0009

ISBN: 0553455389

Publication Date: 1994-11-01
King Richard III by William Shakespeare; Kenneth Branagh (Performed by); Nicolas Soames (Produced by); Geraldine McEwan (Performed by); Nicholas Farrell (Performed by); Stella Gonet (Performed by)
Call Number: CD 0099

ISBN: 962634217X

Publication Date: 2001-04-01
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare; Warren Mitchell (Performed by); Michael Maloney (Performed by); Sarah Woodward (Performed by)
Call Number: CD 0080

ISBN: 9626341505

Publication Date: 1997-11-01
Othello by William Shakespeare; Anton Lesser (Performed by); Hugh Quarshie (Performed by); Emma Fielding (Performed by)
Call Number: CD 0095

ISBN: 9626342064

Publication Date: 2000-10-01
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare; Michael Sheen (Performed by); Kate Beckinsale (Performed by)
Call Number: CD 0077

ISBN: 9626341254

Publication Date: 1997-06-01
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare; Stephen Dillane (Performed by); Fiona Shaw (Performed by)
Call Number: CD 0092

ISBN: 9626341629

Publication Date: 1998-10-01
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare; John Gielgud (Read by); Dame Peggy Ashcroft (Performed by); Cast Staff (Read by)
Call Number: CD 0065

ISBN: 0694517437

Publication Date: 1996-10-01

Lectures on Shakespeare's Works

Falstaff and Cleopatra by Elliott Zuckerman
Call Number: CD 0237

Publication Date: April 2nd, 2010
Is All the World a Stage? by Mera J. Flaumenhaft
Call Number: Tape 111

Publication Date: February 25th, 2000
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Shakespeare's Hamlet by Samuel T. Goldberg
Call Number: Tape 168

Publication Date: March 20th, 1998
The Questions of Lear and Cordelia by Louis Petrich
Call Number: Tape 721

Publication Date: 2007
Restoring Amends: Forgiveness, Philosophy, and the Shape of Shakespeare's Comedies by Jonathan Tuck
Call Number: Tape 55

Publication Date: 2003
Shakespeare's Language and the Language of Shakespeare's Time by Stephen Booth
Call Number: Tape 160

Publication Date: October 24th, 1997
To Meet with Macbeth by Louis Petrich
Call Number: CD 0273

Publication Date: April 20th, 2012

Video

There are many stage productions and movies of Shakespeare plays available in the Library. There are DVDs at the library, as well as, various online resources with different productions. Please see below for a sampling of the DVD's available in the library to check out.

Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Call Number: DVD 0406

Publication Date: 2000 or 2001

BBC Shakespeare Series
Falstaff, Chimes at Midnight by William Shakespeare
Call Number: DVD 0771

Publication Date: 2008
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur by William Shakespeare
Call Number: DVD 0413

Publication Date: 2000 or 2001
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Call Number: DVD 0486

Publication Date: 2006
King Lear by a Chestermead production for BBC TV and WGBH/Boston ; produced by Sue Birtwistle ; directed by Richard Eyre.
Call Number: DVD 0489

ISBN: 9781593752057

Publication Date: 2004
King Lear by William Shakespeare ; a co-production of The Performance Company, Iambic Productions, Channel 4, Thirteen/WNET New York and NHK Japan ; produced by Richard Price and Chris Hunt ; directed by Trevor Nunn and Chris Hunt.
Call Number: DVD 0443

ISBN: 9780793670666

Publication Date: 2008
Othello by Warner Bros. Pictures presents a B.H.E. production for the National Theatre of Great Britain ; produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan and John Brabourne ; directed by Stuart Burge.
Call Number: DVD 0460

ISBN: 9781419843983

Publication Date: 1965
Ran by Akira Kurosawa
Call Number: DVD 0013

ISBN: 9781559409667

Publication Date: 2005

Based on "King Lear" by William Shakespeare.
Romeo & Juliet by Paramount Pictures presents a BHE film ; the Franco Zeffirelli production of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet ; produced by Anthony Havelock-Allan, John Brabourne ; directed by Franco Zeffirelli ; screenplay by Franco Brusati and Masolino D'Amico.
Call Number: DVD 0015

ISBN: 9780792165057

Publication Date: 1968
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead by Michael Brandman & Emanuel Azenberg in association with Thirteen WNET ; a Tom Stoppard film ; produced by Michael Brandman, Emanuel Azenberg ; written and directed by Tom Stoppard ; a Cinecom Entertainment Group Release.
Call Number: DVD 0729

Publication Date: 2005
The taming of the shrew by William Shakespeare ; a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television ; a production by Jonathan Miller ; series producer, Jonathan Miller.
Call Number: DVD 0434

Publication Date: 1980
The Tempest by William Shakespeare ; a BBC-TV production in association with Time-Life Television ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, John Gorrie.
Call Number: DVD 0435

Publication Date: 1980
The Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Call Number: DVD 0409

Publication Date: 2000 or 2001

BBC Shakespeare Series
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet by Twentieth Century Fox presents ; a Bazmark production ; directed by Baz Luhrmann ; screenplay by Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann ; produced by Gabriella Martinelli, Baz Luhrmann.
Call Number: DVD 0008

Publication Date: 2006
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
Call Number: DVD 0441

Publication Date: 2000 or 2001

BBC Shakespeare Series