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  1. Auf schwankendem Grund. Dekadenz und Tod im Venedig der Moderne
    Author: Bergdolt, Klaus; Blamberger, Günter; Moll, Björn; Rütten, Thomas; Jäger, Ludwig; Boschung, Dietrich; Geyer, Helen; Marx, Friedhelm; Gaier, Martin; Mamoli Zorzi, Rosella; Mosebach, Martin; Görner, Rüdiger; Meine, Sabine; Settis, Salvatore; Internationales Kolleg Morphomata
    Published: 2014

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    Subjects: Thomas Mann; Aufsatzsammlung; Literatur; Dichtung; Kunst
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  2. Bibliografía selecta: Esteban Echeverría
    Author: Buck, Julia; Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
    Published: 2014

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    Language: Spanish
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    Subjects: Argentinien; Literatur; Esteban Echeverría; Revolución den Mayo
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  3. Bamberger Orientstudien
    Author: Haig, Geoffrey; Bartsch, Patrick; Haag-Higuchi, Roxane; Behzadi, Lale; Franke, Patrick; Rosenbaum, Johannes; Talabardon, Susanne; Hoffmann, Birgitt; Kharebava, Nana; Wilde, Andreas; Henning, Barbara; Herzog, Christoph; Korn, Lorenz; Tupev, Mustafa; University of Bamberg Press
    Published: 2014

  4. The Total Mobility of the Dime Novel Detective
    Author: Huck, Christian
    Published: 2014

  5. Friede als Figur – Figuren des Friedens
    Author: Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina
    Published: 2014

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    Language: German
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    Subjects: Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik; Literatur; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Drama; Robert Schindel; Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics; Literature
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  6. Das ästhetische Spiel von Text, Leser und Autor: Intertextualität neu gedacht an Adolf Muschgs Parzival-Rezeption Der Rote Ritter: eine Geschichte von Parzival am Beispiel der Frauenfiguren: Dissertation
    Author: Ternès, Anabel
    Published: 2014

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    Subjects: Intertextualität; Erzählperspektive; Literatur
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  7. Laughter in the Void
    Author: Nakhimovsky, Alice S.
    Published: 1982

  8. Das »K« in Fanfiction: Nationale Spezifika eines globalen Phänomens
    Author: Cuntz-Leng, Vera
    Published: 2014

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    Subjects: Fan; Fan-Fiction; Literatur
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  9. Visions of the daughters of Albion: the influence of Mary Wollstonecraft's life and career on William Blake
    Author: Abbasi, Pyeaam; Keshavarzian, Ramin
    Published: 2014

    Abstract: The present study discussed the influence of one of the eighteenth-century British women of color, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, on William Blake. By adopting a biographical and also a comparative approach, the authors tried to... more

     

    Abstract: The present study discussed the influence of one of the eighteenth-century British women of color, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, on William Blake. By adopting a biographical and also a comparative approach, the authors tried to highlight the influences of Wollstonecraft's personal life, character, and career, chiefly her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), on one of William Blake's less-referred-to poems Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793). The study will help readers to both know Wollstonecraft's prominence and also to grasp more of William Blake and his poetry. The authors also attempted to show that William Blake was part of the early feminism of the late eighteenth century

     
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    Subjects: Literatur; Einfluss; Feminismus; Frau; Recht; Frauenrechtlerin; Biographie; Wollstonecraft; M.; Blake; W.
  10. Literatur und die anderen Künste
    Author: Bernstorff, Wiebke von; Tholen, Toni; Moennighoff, Burkhard
    Published: 2014

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    Subjects: Unsewn / adhesive bound; Literatur; Künste
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  11. L'écriture du corps entre philosophie et littérature
    Author: Nakhutsrishvili, Luka; Hotz-Davies, Ingrid
    Published: 2014

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    Language: French
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    Subjects: Körper; Dekonstruktion; Schrift; Literatur; Philosophie
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  12. The Art of Gothic
    Published: 2014; 2017
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    How gothic captured the Victorian soul..The Art of Gothic ventures deep into the heart of 19th century Britain to explore how the gothic style rose from ridicule to define the era. It is a period synonymous with progress. But at the same time, a... more

     

    How gothic captured the Victorian soul..The Art of Gothic ventures deep into the heart of 19th century Britain to explore how the gothic style rose from ridicule to define the era. It is a period synonymous with progress. But at the same time, a group of men and women seemingly spurned the modern age, turning to the medieval past as a source of inspiration...From Horace Walpole to John Ruskin to Bram Stoker, The Shock of the Old is the tale of how an old, derided style of architecture became a defining characteristic of the Victorian age and was as important as the Romantic and Modernist movements that it bridged...Discover how the gothic style went from vulgar to the height of fashion; how it first symbolised tradition before becoming the hallmark of industrial progress; and how it gave voice to the savage horrors of the time

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Subjects: Literatur; History, Modern; Literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (150 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    023000. - Title from title frames. - In Process Record. - collection. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014
  13. The City and the Soul
    Published: 2014; 2017
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    As the Industrial Revolution promised more and more inexplicable wonders of the modern world, Gothic art and literature became both backward and forward looking. In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley warnedof the dangers of how science could get... more

     

    As the Industrial Revolution promised more and more inexplicable wonders of the modern world, Gothic art and literature became both backward and forward looking. In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley warnedof the dangers of how science could get out of control, while Sir Giles Gilbert Scott used Gothic architecture to memorialise Prince Albert as a medieval hero. Meanwhile, poets indulged in hallucinatory drugs to reach new Gothic heights. Where would it all end?

     
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    Subjects: Literatur; History, Modern; Literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    005035. - Title from title frames. - In Process Record. - Film. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014
  14. Liberty Diversity Depravity
    Published: 2014; 2017
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    In the middle of the 18th century - in England - an entirely surprising thing happened. Out of the Age of Enlightenment and Reason a monster was born - a Gothic obsession with monsters, ghouls, ghosts andthings that go bump in the night. From... more

     

    In the middle of the 18th century - in England - an entirely surprising thing happened. Out of the Age of Enlightenment and Reason a monster was born - a Gothic obsession with monsters, ghouls, ghosts andthings that go bump in the night. From restrained aristocratic beginnings to pornographic excesses, the Gothic revival came to influence popular art, architecture and literature

     
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    Subjects: Literatur; History, Modern; Literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    005017. - Title from title frames. - In Process Record. - Film. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014
  15. A Place to Stand
    Published: 2014; 2017
    Publisher:  The Video Project, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    Baca’s poems provide a unique window to his mindset at the time as he channeled his frustrations and hopes to paper...Baca's extraordinary life is both inspiring and haunting, simultaneously an indictment of our current criminal justice system and a... more

     

    Baca’s poems provide a unique window to his mindset at the time as he channeled his frustrations and hopes to paper...Baca's extraordinary life is both inspiring and haunting, simultaneously an indictment of our current criminal justice system and a model of the potential for human transformation..."A Place to Stand presents Jimmy’s compelling story in the the best way: By letting this great poet tell his own tale - and no one can tell a tale like Jimmy Santiago Baca.".Taylor Hackford, Academy Award-winning Director/Producer.."A Place to Stand is an invitation to students to take what is often the worst in their lives and transform it through their courage, love, and work into a triumph as learners and wholly valuable human beings.".Professor Rex Veeder, Dept of English, St. Cloud University

     
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    Subjects: Literatur; Documentary-style films; Literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    012310. - Title from title frames. - In Process Record. - Film. - Originally produced by The Video Project in 2014
  16. A Poet In New York
    Published: 2014; 2017
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    Marking the centenary on 27 October 2014 of Dylan Thomas's birth, this drama written by acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies, explores the final days of this famous poet, known for his wild, hard-drinking lifestyle as well as his brilliance. The film... more

     

    Marking the centenary on 27 October 2014 of Dylan Thomas's birth, this drama written by acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies, explores the final days of this famous poet, known for his wild, hard-drinking lifestyle as well as his brilliance. The film begins as Thomas arrives in New York where he planned to rehearse, write and party, before travelling to Hollywood to write an opera with the equally famous composer Stravinsky. But what might have been a triumphant new path in his career turned into a requiem for a man whose life had spiralled out of control and Thomas died in a smog-ridden New York in 1953 at the age of just 39. Moving between the present in New York and the poet's past in Wales, this drama explores how Dylan Thomas's experiences had made his life virtually untenable and examines the part his destructive personality played in his own demise

     
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    Subjects: Film; Literatur; Literature; Motion pictures
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    011908. - Title from title frames. - In Process Record. - Film. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014
  17. Blood for Sale
    Published: 2014; 2017
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    Gothic fantasy horror would be outstripped by real horror as the truth of mechanised warfare dawned on an innocent world in 1914. The language of Gothic would increasingly come to encapsulate the horrors of the20th century - from Marx's analysis of... more

     

    Gothic fantasy horror would be outstripped by real horror as the truth of mechanised warfare dawned on an innocent world in 1914. The language of Gothic would increasingly come to encapsulate the horrors of the20th century - from Marx's analysis of 'vampiric' capitalism to Conrad's dark vision of imperialism and TS Eliot's image of The Wasteland, a Gothic narrative seemed to make more sense of the modern world more than any other

     
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    Subjects: Literatur; History, Modern; Literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    004811. - Title from title frames. - In Process Record. - Film. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014
  18. Juliette of the Herbs
    Contributor: Steeten, Tish (Produzent, Verfasser); De Baïracli Levy, Juliette (Mitwirkender)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Kanopy Streaming, [San Francisco, California, USA]

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    Contributor: Steeten, Tish (Produzent, Verfasser); De Baïracli Levy, Juliette (Mitwirkender)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Subjects: European; Ethnic groups / Asian ethnic groups / Indian people / Roma people; Animals; Property / Property maintenance / Gardens / Herb gardens; Medical treatments and procedures / Traditional medicine / Herbalism; Medical treatments and procedures / Alternative medicine; Veterinary care; Literature / Nonfiction / Biographies; Social Sciences / Anthropology / Cultural anthropology; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 75 min.), digital, .flv file, sound
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    Title from title frames. - Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 1998
  19. A Midsummer Night's Dream with Hugh Bonneville
    Published: 2014; 2016
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    Bonneville started his career at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park, understudying Ralph Fiennes as Lysander, one of the four lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He and Fiennes meet up again to try to untangle the extraordinary plot of one of... more

     

    Bonneville started his career at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park, understudying Ralph Fiennes as Lysander, one of the four lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He and Fiennes meet up again to try to untangle the extraordinary plot of one of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular plays, a great comedy of love and enchantment.. Bonneville goes to see the play – on Midsummer’s Night – at the Globe Theatre and talks to the Globe’s Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole about its delicate balance between comedy and tragedy, the natural and the supernatural. It is thought the play might have been performed as part of a wedding celebration, and the Globe actors try some of the scenes in the stately ruins of Copped Hall right next to the site of the original structure which may have been the play’s original performance venue.. At one point of the Dream, Shakespeare has fun with his own great romantic tragedy. The play’s final scene, in which Bottom and his fellow mechanicals perform a dreadfully bad version of a Romeo & Juliet-like story, is one of the best-loved scenes in all of Shakespeare. Hugh meets up with actor David Walliams, who is about to play Bottom, and looks back on James Cagney’s performance in the 1935 film.. We see clips from the landmark Peter Brook production and the BBC’s 1980 production with Helen Mirren as Titania, and hear from director Julie Taymor, who recently staged a vivid production at the Theater for a New Audience in Brooklyn (starring David Harewood). In the deserted Globe Theatre, Bonneville muses on the play’s enduring appeal.

     
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    Subjects: Literatur; Literature; Performance art
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    005315. - In Process Record. - Title from title frames. - Film. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014
  20. Antony and Cleopatra with Kim Cattrall
    Published: 2014; 2016
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    Cattrall has played Cleopatra twice. Now she explores the real character of the great Queen of Egypt, and travels to Rome, ironically Marc Antony’s city, in her quest to find out more about the historical Cleopatra. She also meets with her director,... more

     

    Cattrall has played Cleopatra twice. Now she explores the real character of the great Queen of Egypt, and travels to Rome, ironically Marc Antony’s city, in her quest to find out more about the historical Cleopatra. She also meets with her director, Dame Janet Suzman, who herself made an iconic Cleopatra at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973. Together they begin to uncover the truth behind this astonishing middle-aged love story. Antony and Cleopatra are no lovesick juveniles; they are mature, heroic – real – political figures. As such they were quite dangerous roles to write, let alone to play.. Cattrall watches different Cleopatras, meets Harriet Walter and Vanessa Redgrave (who have also played the role) and joins actors rehearsing the play at the Globe. Cleopatra is one of the greatest and largest of all Shakespeare’s female roles, and must have required a boy actor of extraordinary skill. We look at the source Shakespeare used and how closely he copied the language of a Roman historian to describe Cleopatra’s beauty; today he might be at risk for plagiarism. But comparing one of the most famous speeches in the play with its source, line by line, reveals the power of Shakespeare’s poetry.. The episode tracks Marc Antony’s first appearance in Shakespeare, as a young and powerful figure in Julius Caesar. Richard Johnson and Patrick Stewart discuss playing Cleopatra’s now-aging lover in the later play.. The conflict between the public and private lives of these two historic figures was bound to end in tragedy. They fail to defeat or escape their enemies. As in Romeo and Juliet, both die by their own hands. In the Globe’s candlelit indoor theatre – a version of the playhouse where this play was once performed – Cattrall watches the actors play out Cleopatra’s last moments.

     
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    Subjects: Literatur; Literature; Performance art
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    005316. - In Process Record. - Title from title frames. - Film. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014
  21. King Lear with Christopher Plummer
    Published: 2014; 2016
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    King Lear is universally acknowledged as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragic roles. Plummer has played the role under the direction of Sir Jonathan Miller (who, we discover, has directed it six times).. Lear was, in fact, a real English king, who... more

     

    King Lear is universally acknowledged as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragic roles. Plummer has played the role under the direction of Sir Jonathan Miller (who, we discover, has directed it six times).. Lear was, in fact, a real English king, who lived 800 years before Christ. Shakespeare’s premise of Lear dividing his kingdom among his daughters and, in the process, disinheriting his favorite is, for the most part, supposedly true. It is included in the Chronicles of English History, which Shakespeare often used as source material. The historic story has a happy ending, but Shakespeare gave his theatrical interpretation a dreadful denouement that has been shocking audiences for 400 years.. Ian McKellen and Simon Russell Beale share their insights into this often-difficult character. And Plummer examines what inspired Shakespeare to write a play about a kingdom divided – at a delicate moment when a new King (James) from Scotland was trying to create what has become the "united kingdom.". We learn how the storm scenes might have been produced at Shakespeare’s own theater, and how they represent the storm going on in Lear’s mind. The pain he endures is so intense that Shakespeare’s version of the story was soon rewritten with a happy ending; at the Globe, we see this alternate ending acted out. Then we return to the real play and its heart-breaking tragedy of old age. One of Shakespeare’s later plays, its ending may reflect something of his own mature cynicism. The powers of good fail and the gods do not prevent the deaths of Lear and Cordelia. But Plummer finds that beneath the cosmic emptiness, the possibility of love survives.

     
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    Subjects: Literatur; Literature; Performance art
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    005316. - In Process Record. - Title from title frames. - Film. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014
  22. Othello with David Harewood
    Published: 2014; 2016
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    Astonishingly, David Harewood was the first black actor to play the great Moorish Venetian general Othello at London’s National Theatre, triumphantly taking on the role—but not until 1997. Now he returns to the play to discover how the centuries have... more

     

    Astonishingly, David Harewood was the first black actor to play the great Moorish Venetian general Othello at London’s National Theatre, triumphantly taking on the role—but not until 1997. Now he returns to the play to discover how the centuries have changed our views of it.. Harewood learns about the Moorish ambassador who visited the court of Queen Elizabeth I and may have inspired Shakespeare. He meets the National Theatre’s latest Othello, Adrian Lester, who has also starred in a play about Ira Aldridge, the 19th-century American actor who was the first black man ever to play the role in England; the reviews were shockingly racist. And he watches different Othellos on film, including Laurence Olivier’s acclaimed if controversial "blacked-up" version from the 1960s.. Othello is actually a play dominated not by race, but by love and a great villain – Iago. A forensic psychiatrist helps to analyze this extraordinary psychopath and how he manipulates Othello by persuading him that his young wife is having an affair. Harewood meets Simon Russell Beale, who played Iago to his Othello, and they re-examine the lethal relationship. Imogen Stubbs and Sir Ian McKellen, who starred in Trevor Nunn’s production; Julia Stiles, whose movie O was a modern take on the play; and Sir Patrick Stewart, who played Othello in a "color-reversed" production, also reflect on their characters.

     
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    Subjects: Literatur; Literature; Performance art
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    005316. - In Process Record. - Title from title frames. - Film. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014
  23. Romeo and Juliet with Joseph Fiennes
    Published: 2014; 2016
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    Fiennes has a unique perspective on Romeo and Juliet. He played Shakespeare – both writing and performing as Romeo – in the film Shakespeare in Love. Now he wants to examine why it remains the most-performed of all Shakespeare plays.. Fiennes takes... more

     

    Fiennes has a unique perspective on Romeo and Juliet. He played Shakespeare – both writing and performing as Romeo – in the film Shakespeare in Love. Now he wants to examine why it remains the most-performed of all Shakespeare plays.. Fiennes takes us back to the source – an Italian story translated into English when Shakespeare was a boy. Shakespeare adapted and dramatized the Italian poem, and other writers have been adapting him for centuries ever since. At London’s Royal Ballet, viewers see the play in a famous dance interpretation, and later Stephen Sondheim discusses adapting for the Broadway musical theater as West Side Story. Fiennes visits adult night classes at a South London school where the participants can see their own lives reflected in the play.. Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad, who recently played the immortal lovers on Broadway in 2013, discuss the continuing power of the play and its poetry. And Fiennes looks at noted film adaptations, ranging from Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 Italian masterpiece to Baz Luhrman’s contemporary re-imagining. We attend the premiere of a new film adaptation, this time rewritten by Julian Fellowes. Back at the Globe, we watch as the company rehearses a scene with a young man very effectively playing Juliet – just as would have been done in Shakespeare’s time.. The ending of this play is so tragic that for years rewritten versions dominated the stage. Yet Fiennes sees a more hopeful message coming from the tragic ending, one about the eternal power of love.

     
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    Subjects: Literatur; Literature; Performance art
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    005219. - In Process Record. - Title from title frames. - Film. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014
  24. Shakespeare Uncovered Series 2
    Published: 2014; 2016
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    Behind every Shakespeare play is a story. Shakespeare Uncovered portrays the Bard as an impresario who, four centuries ago, defined show business in his day-drawing on historical sources, stealing and adapting ideas, bringing back popular characters,... more

     

    Behind every Shakespeare play is a story. Shakespeare Uncovered portrays the Bard as an impresario who, four centuries ago, defined show business in his day-drawing on historical sources, stealing and adapting ideas, bringing back popular characters, writing prequels, and developing dramatic ideas from the politics of the day.. In each episode, a major Shakespearean actor or director explores and reveals the extraordinary world and works of William Shakespeare and the still-potent impact they have today. The presenters have spent their lives with Shakespeare's work and relate not only to the stories of the plays themselves, but also how they came to be written, how they have been performed, and how they have survived over 400 years.

     
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    Subjects: Literatur; Literature; Performance art
    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (319 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    051840. - In Process Record. - Title from title frames. - Film collection. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014
  25. Taming of the Shrew with Morgan Freeman
    Published: 2014; 2016
    Publisher:  BBC, [San Francisco, California, USA] ; Kanopy Streaming

    Freeman first discovered Shakespeare in school in Mississippi. He went on to play the hero of this play – Petruchio – in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production in New York, set in the Wild West. Freeman notes this play has set the... more

     

    Freeman first discovered Shakespeare in school in Mississippi. He went on to play the hero of this play – Petruchio – in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production in New York, set in the Wild West. Freeman notes this play has set the template for all of the battle-of-the-sexes comedies that have followed; many a romantic comedy has The Taming of the Shrew running through its veins.. It’s a love story between two unlikely characters. The Shrew is Katherine, a woman who is bitter, viperish, wild – or simply not prepared to accept the conventions of her time – and thus "unmarriageable." Petruchio is after a wife, and the wealthier the better. We see some Petruchios who took on the "taming" – including Richard Burton, John Cleese and Raul Julia – and such famous Kates as Elizabeth Taylor, Fiona Shaw, Sinead Cusack and Meryl Streep. Freeman reunites with his own Kate, Tracey Ullman. Julia Stiles, star of the 1999 teen comedy adaptation, 10 Things I Hate About You, reflects on this contemporary version. And the Royal Shakespeare Company takes a version of the play to a school near where Shakespeare grew up, where viewers observe what children make of this very adult piece.. For many, this play is uncomfortable to watch. It was one of Shakespeare’s very first plays and may seem too brutal for modern audiences. It ends with a speech about how women should obey their men. But is this the sexist propaganda that it first appears – or is there something more complicated (and interesting) going on? Freeman concludes that beneath the apparent cruelty is a message about equality in relationships. And we hear observations from many women who also admire the play, including pioneering feminist Germaine Greer (who appears as an expert commentator in several episodes).

     
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    Scope: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes), digital, .flv file, sound
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    005316. - In Process Record. - Title from title frames. - Film. - Originally produced by BBC in 2014