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462) Romanoff and Juliet
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Set during the Cold War, this charming comedy based on Shakespeare's classic love story follows a tiny European country's President who holds the deciding vote in a United Nation's debate. Determined to remain neutral, he orchestrates a romance between the American ambassador's daughter and the Russian ambassador's son. If the two opposing world powers can't successfully join forces, there just may be a plague on both their houses!"--Container.
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Language
English
Description
A collection of reimaginings of Shakespeare's plays and poetry by young adult authors.
These fifteen reimaginings of Shakespeare's classic works include a midsummer's dance in a gym. A cast party amongst the star. An ode to a fallen rap legend. The authors put a modern spin on the works, for contemporary audiences. -- adapted from jacket
467) The playmaker
Author
Language
English
Description
The year is 1597. Elizabeth is queen. Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men are packing London's Globe Theatre. And the severed heads of Catholic insurgents are impaled on the Tower's gates. One fourteen-year-old boy, seeking his fortune and perhaps the father who abandoned him as a child, should arouse no one's interest. But within a week of his arrival, Richard Malory is robbed, beaten, and threatened at knifepoint. Someone wants him...
471) Romeo and Juliet
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005], �1976.
Language
English
Description
In the gentle streets of fair Verona, a clash of servants between the warring Montagues and Capulets sets the wheels of fate in motion. At a masked ball, the lovelorn Romeo spies the beautiful Juliet and the two soon fall madly in love, only to feel despair once their true identities are revealed. Matters worsen when Romeo slays Tybalt, a nephew of the Capulets, and is banished from the city. Only the intervention of a loyal friar and nurse can right...
473) Shakespeare A to Z: the essential reference to his plays, his poems, his life and times, and more
Author
Publisher
Laurel
Pub. Date
[1991], c1990
Language
English
479) Will's quill
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1975
Language
English
Description
A goose named Willoughby visits London, meets a friendly actor-playwright named Shakespeare, and helps make literary history.
480) Anonymous
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne? Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.