Anthony & Cleopatra King Richard Taming Shrew 3 DVD LOT

YOU ARE BIDDING ON A 3 DVD LOT of Shakepeare plays!

DISC 1 - ANTHONY & CLEOPATRA

Enjoy a front row seat in the comfort of your own home of this filmed stage production of a Shakepeare classic starring an international cast including:
Timothy Dalton as Anthony
Lynn Redgrave as Cleopatra
Michelle Nicolls as Chairman
John Carradine as the Soothsayer

DISC 2 - TAMING OF THE SHREW

You'll believe night is day!
Katherina isn't top of Lucentio's or Hortensio's popularity list. Her sister Bianca is, but Bianca isn't on the market until Katherina gets hitched.
Enter Petruchio, a Shrew Whisperer, intent on Katherina's dowry. 3 men with just 2 women on their mind but who will succeed?
And who will complete the taming of the shrew?

This filmed stage production of the play starts with the Induction where a trick is played by a nobleman on the drunkard Christopher Sly who arranges for an
acting troupe to perform a play called The Taming of the Shrew...

The beautiful and gentle Bianca has no shortage of admirers (Lucentio, Gremio and Hortensio) but her father insists that she will not marry until her shrewish sister, Katharina, is betrothed. Bianca's suitors persuade fortune-seeker Petruchio to court her. The suitors pay for any costs involved and there is also the goal of Katharina's dowry.

Sparks fly between Katharina and Petruchio and they enter into various slanging matches but not to be put off Petruchio marries Katharina. His behaviour following the wedding is intolerable and he carries Katharina off to his country house with his servant
Grumio. Petruchio intends to browbeat Katharina into submission and he craftily denies her food and sleep, whilst continuously singing her praises. He also finds fault with her new clothes and she is forced to wear old ones. This is the final straw and
Katharina starts agreeing and pleasing her husband - she has been tamed.

On their return to Padua Lucentio has won Bianca and Hortensio has married a widow. At a banquet they wager on who has the most obedient wife. Each wife is issued with commands but only Katharina obeys and promptly lectures everyone on the importance of wifely submission!

The theme of the play is a farcical comedy but the question is did Shakespeare really believe that a woman was in no way equal to a man or was this play tongue in cheek and was he portraying how men would simply like things to be!

Starring Franklin Seales as Petrucio, Karen Austin as Katherina, Larry Drake as Baptista
Directed by John Allinson. Produced by Jack Nakano
Music Composed by Gerald Bernard Cohen 

DISC 3 - KING RICHARD II

One of Shakespeare's lesser-known plays is the story of a self-centered and weak king unable to control his kingdom and who suffers as a result. Shakespeare's dialogue is especially lyrical and poetic here and this production features a talented cast and authentic costumes and sets based on the original Globe Theater productions of Shakespeare's time.
Enjoy a front row seat in the comfort of your own home with a Shakepeare classic starring an international cast including:
David Birney as King Richard II
Paul Shenan as Henry Bollingbroke

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