A storm rages Prospero his daughter Miranda & his monstrous servant Caliban watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked Miraculously all on board survive Plotting mistaken identities & bewitching love follow as the travellers explore the strange place of spirits & monsters on which they have landed 240 pages Shakespeare William ...

Despite being radically unconventional late auteur Derek Jarman's 1979 film has been hailed as one of the most successful adaptations of the Bard's works by several Shakespeare scholars Jarman removes much of the dialogue instead carrying the story with his trademark haunting images lit mostly by fire & the moon Using the prevalent English punk sensibility of the time he also employs undertones of closeted gay society Poet Heathcote Williams plays the banished Prospero with a frustrated intensity while Karl Johnson is the sprite-like Ariel Together on a remote island they become prisoners of a dark fantasy realm filled with secret signs & codes where they attempt to use magic to turn the world into a more spiritually satisfying place Meanwhile Prospero's daughter Miranda (Toyah Willcox) wanders the halls of his foreboding fortress outrageously costumed in a stunning combination of period & punk tatters as she draws strangers into her home while longing for freedom Shot on location at Stoneleigh Abbey Jarman's film creates a dreamlike world within each room that is lushly lit & decadent in its wasteful decay As the tale progresses Prospero's illusions become false realities culminating in a sumptuous wedding feast that features a Busby Berkeley-like performance of sailors dancing as Elisabeth Welch sings Stormy Weather ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This modern retelling of William Shakespeare&s final masterpiece is an exciting mystical & magical fantasy with Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren (Best Actress The Queen 2006) leading a star-studded cast including Russell Brand (Get Him To The Greek) & Alfred Molina (The Sorcerer&s Apprentice) Exiled to a magical island the sorceress Prospera (Mirren) conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies & then unleashes her powers for revenge Directed by the visionary Julie Taymor
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- The Tempest with its innovative twist is a supernatural dramedy filled with Shakespearean villains lovers & fools that will leave you spellbound

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This is the entire unabridged play brought to life in full colour! Although The Tempest was the first play to appear in the first official Folio printing of Shakespeare's plays it was almost certainly the last play he wrote It held pride of place in that first collection presumably because the editors thought it to be his masterpiece; a crowning glory to the career of the most brightest of playwrights Needless to say we had to select the very best artists to do it justice & to bring you the stunning artwork that you've come to expect from our titles Poignant to the last this book is a classic amongst classics ...

This is the complete play which is translated into plain English Although The Tempest was the first play to appear in the first official Folio printing of Shakespeare's plays it was almost certainly the last play he wrote It held pride of place in that first collection presumably because the editors thought it to be his masterpiece; a crowning glory to the career of the most brightest of playwrights Needless to say we had to select the very best artists to do it justice & to bring you the stunning artwork that you've come to expect from our titles Poignant to the last this book is a classic amongst classics ...

Performed variously as escapist fantasy celebratory fiction & political allegory The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression Significantly it was placed first when published in the First Folio of 1623 & is now generally seen as the playwright's most penetrating statement about his art Stephen Orgel's wide-ranging introduction examines changing attitudes to The Tempest & reassesses the evidence behind the various readings He focuses on key characters & their roles & relationships as well as on the dramatic historical & political context finding the play to be both more open & more historically determined than traditional views have allowed ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays both in the classroom & in the theatre & this revision brings the Arden 3 edition right up-to-date A completely new section of the introduction discusses new thinking about Shakespeare's sources for the play & examines his treatment of colonial themes as well as covering key productions since this edition was first published in 1999 Most importantly it looks at Julie Taymor's ground-breaking 2010 film starring Helen Mirren as Prospera Alden & Virginia Vaughan's edition of The Tempest is much valued for its authority & originality & their revision brings it up-to-date making it even more relevant & useful to students & theatre practitioners ...

An extraordinary discovery When his old friend Angela invites him out to her archaeological dig in the Iraqi desert Chris Bronson is expecting a relaxing few days & an overdue catch-up But when they arrive at the site they find her colleagues slaughtered & a recent discovery defaced An ancient mystery Their only clue is an incomplete inscription which holds the key to uncovering the truth behind a centuries-old secret With unknown assassins hot on their heels Chris & Angela are forced into a desperate hunt across the globe for the final piece of the puzzle & if they don't find it first the consequences could be fatal The race of their lives ...

In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci & the Turin Shroud Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince found clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that pointed to the existence of a secret underground religion More clues were found in a twentieth-century London church These were the beginnings of a quest through time & space that led the authors into the mysterious world of secret societies & such bodies as the Freemasons the Knights Templar & the Cathars & finally back to the ideas & beliefs of the first century AD & a devastating new view of the real character & motives of the founder of Christianity & the roles of John the Baptist & Mary Magdalene They reveal nothing less than a secret history preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art & even in the great Gothic cathedrals whose revelation could shake the foundations of the Chruch ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Knights Templar were the wealthiest most powerful
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