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1) King Lear
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Shakespeare's plays in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters.
7) Coriolanus
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The last of Shakespeare's tragedies, in which Coriolanus, a strong and cruel soldier, brings about his own downfall through the flaws in his character.
8) Hamlet
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A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled Hamlet designed especially for education, training and information purposes only.
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King Henry, now in failing health and still embroiled in war, sends his second son Prince John of Lancaster to the battle. Prince John tricks and defeats the enemy while his older son, the Prince of Wales, is summoned away from Falstaff and his tavern circle to the king's bedside where he assumes the throne upon the death of the king.
10) Henry V
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The third of Shakespeare's plays portraying the emergence of England's most admired national hero, Henry V. He unites his people as he embarks on the invasion of France, deals justly with traitors, tirelessly leads his soldiers to victory and ensures future peace by his marriage to the Princess of France. Shakespeare examines these qualities that make a successful ruler and shows the prince in terms of isolation and responsibility that his success...
11) Julius Caesar
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Details the transformation of a noble Athenian from a reckless spendthrift to a mad misanthrope.
A play about power, assassination and revenge. Presents a broad range of historical personalities as complicated human beings in agonizing conflict with one another and themselves.
12) Macbeth
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Driven by ambition and an unscrupulous wife, Macbeth murders the King of Scotland and claims the throne for himself. Haunted by ghosts and vexed by witches, he and his wife descend into the depths of madness and paranoia as they crumble beneath the weight of their crimes.
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Shakespeare's play about devilish fairies, bedeviled lovers and tradesmen-actors. Plots intertwine as entangled love affairs, the comical performance of a "play within a play" by the tradesmen of Athens, and the antics in fairyland among King Oberon and his queen Titania produce a bizarre series of entanglements, but all ends happily.
14) The mighty pawns
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A teacher in an inner city junior high school introduces four students to the game of chess. They then use their newly won skills to compete in the national championship.
15) Richard II
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A dramatization of Shakespeare's play, the story of a rebellion against the corrupt Richard II.
16) Richard III
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Presents William Shakespeare's play about Richard of Gloucester, a self-proclaimed villain, who usurps the crown from King Edward IV.
17) Romeo & Juliet
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Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives.
18) Timon of Athens
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Details the transformation of a noble Athenian from a reckless spendthrift to a mad misanthrope.
19) Titus Andronicus
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William Shakespeare's tragedy set in Roman times dealing with the revenge of Titus Andronicus for the atrocities committed against his family by Tamora, the captive queen of the Goths, and her faction.
20) Home at last
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Based on real orphan trains which resettled children in the Midwest at the turn of the century. Billy, a streetwise kid from New York, is sent to Nebraska and is taken in by a Swedish farm family.
