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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