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All's Well That Ends Well (1607) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well was likely inspired by the tale of Giletta di Narbona from Boccaccio's Decameron. Unpopular during Shakespeare's lifetime, the play remains one of his least staged works to this day. Despite this, scholars praise All's Well That Ends Well for its moral ambiguity. "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together, our virtues would be proud...
5) Chelsea
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1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Chelsea's best friend gets engaged, the disappointing aspects of Chelsea's own life become apparent, and she worries that everyone else has everything figured out.
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Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...
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113 pages ; 21 cm
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"Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an income to match. Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a respectable young lady and wants to enlist the jealous Anna's help for an assignation. As the two women exchange barbs and take turns taunting Anna's hapless...
8) Happening
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1963, student Anne has a bright future ahead of her, but her dreams of finishing her studies is shattered when she becomes pregnant. As her final exams approach, Anne decides to take matters into her own hands.
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bridget is forty-something and single again after breaking up with Mark Darcy. She decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and some new ones. But her love life takes a turn when she meets a dashing American named Jack. In an unlikely twist, Bridget finds herself pregnant but she can only be fifty percent sure of the father's identity.
10) Practical magic
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sally and Gillian are sisters with a bewitching gift. Unfortunately their gift also comes with a dark family curse: any man who falls in love with them meets a horrible end. When Sally meets the man of her dreams, she has one final chance to lift the curse and set their love lives free. With the help of their aunts the siblings take on the dark side.
11) Party with me
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After the sudden death of her distant father, a young woman copes by distracting herself with alcohol, drugs, and the antics of her misguided friends.
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"This book collects Lisa Kron's two extraordinary solo performance works. Best known for her ongoing work as a member of The Five Lesbian Brothers, Kron's solo pieces are very personal examinations of both herself and her family history. This is singularly clear in 2.5 Minute Ride, where her writing deftly maneuvers between the tragic drama of the Holocaust and the wry comedy of her family's attempts to pursue pleasure at the local amusement park....
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Successful, married, and very pregnant, Jamie Caswell is about to have it all career, family, and success when she is blindsided by a semi-truck and wakes up seven years in the future where 'have it all' is not what she expected.
15) Lady Chatterley
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2 videodiscs (approximately 205 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When her paralyzed husband urges the repressed Lady Chatterley to find fulfillment and an heir for his fortune in the arms of another man, she embarks on a journey that changes her forever.
16) Girl picture
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Finnish
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Best friends Mimmi and Ronkko have each other's backs, always. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma, on the contrary, has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the girls meet, life opens new paths, and they all rocket in new directions. While Mimmi and Emma experience the earth moving effects of first love, Ronkko is on a quest to find pleasure.
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bunny King is a mother of two and a rough-cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to try and reunite with her children, a confrontation leads Bunny to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against them both, Bunny's battle has just begun.
19) Middlemarch
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1 videodisc (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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One double-sided disc contains episodes 1-3 on side A (200 min.) and episodes 4-6 on side B (220 min.). Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.
20) Thérèse Raquin
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1 videodisc (approximately 166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the classic 1867 novel and play by French writer Émile Zola. The story of a young woman, Thérèse, unhappily married to her first cousin, Camille. She begins a passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent. Thérèse and Laurent will go to any lengths to be together, but their actions may haunt them forever.
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