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1) King Lear
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English
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Proposing to divide his vast kingdom amongst his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cornelia, Lear devises a test for his offspring to convince him of their suitability and compassion for rule. Goneril and Regan's true colors emerge, they uncover a vast conspiracy of greed and cruelty within the once loyal dynasty.
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A collection of classic performances by BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Dame Diana Rigg! Best known as Emma Peel from The Avengers, Diana Rigg went from sexy starlet and Bond girl to a full career as an award-winning actress in theater, television, and film. Includes her best television performances at the BBC, including her role as feisty Ms. Adela Bradley in The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries, the comedy series Three Piece Suite, and assorted other televised...
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Criterion collection volume 495
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English
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The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays" constituted an artistic high for the medium, bringing Broadway-quality...
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King Lear of Britain has decided to divide his kingdom into three parts, and to hand over the responsibilities of ruling to his three daughters. The two oldest daughters, Goneril and Regan, flatter their father insincerely, and are rewarded. Cordelia, the youngest, sincerely loves her father, but she cannot match her sisters' skill at false adulation. The king takes away her portion of the kingdom, despite the pleadings of some of his most loyal nobles....
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Maggie Smith at the BBC volume Disc 3
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English
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BBC adaptation of Tennessee Williams' one-act play where a young woman is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the violent death of her cousin. Her rich aunt asks a brilliant young brain surgeon to operate on the girl in hopes of dispelling her 'hallucinations' about the tragedy but the doctor administers a truth serum and learns that her 'hallucinations ' are true.
9) Richard II
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Hollow crown volume pt. 1
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English
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King Richard, a vain, self-indulgent man who rules with little regard for his people's welfare, is called upon to settle a dispute between his cousin Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray. In an act that will spell doom for his reign, he banished both men, and sets into motion a chain of events that will change British history forever.
10) Heartbreak house
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On his Sussex estate Captain Shotover, an eccentric poet, retired seafarer and inventor, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends.
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This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...
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