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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...
7) Egg
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An unflinching comedy about why women choose motherhood, why they revere it, fear it, and why some women forgo it.
8) Scumrock
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while his girlfriend tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity.
9) 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.
10) Behaving badly
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2 videodiscs (approximately 203 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Oscar winner Judi Dench stars in this darkly humorous drama about a meek, middle-aged divorcee who suddenly begins to behave in ways that shock her ex and her grown daughter. Extras include biographies of star Judi Dench and writer Catherine Heath.
11) Where is Kyra?
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Kyra Johnson, a middle-aged divorcee, moves into her elderly mother's Brooklyn apartment while she looks for work and tries to get back on her feet. When her mother dies suddenly, Kyra is left without any support, both emotional and financial, and finds herself with very few options. Kyra can't accept that her once-tidy life has completely fallen apart. This leads her on a risky path of self-destruction that has devastating consequences.
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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...
13) Boston marriage
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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...
14) 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.
15) Broken vows
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After a woman hooks up with a New Orleans bartender on her bachelorette party, he grows obsessed and follows her to California. When he learns she's about to get married, the psychotic man plots his violent revenge.
16) La Llorona
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40 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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A dramatization of the sad and haunting Mexican legend, the Crying Woman, that parents have told to children who are misbehaving and to guard against vanity. Some say the story is about Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and a native Mexican woman who served as his translator. Includes special book features for further study and a special section for teachers and librarians.
17) Jennifer 8
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Homicide investigator John Berlin believes he has made a breakthrough in a serial killing case when he discovers a witness: a blind woman named Helena.
18) Gloria Bell
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Gloria (Julianne Moore) spends her nights joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles and finds herself thrust into an unexpected and complicated new romance. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*It's a remarkably enjoyable movie, downright cathartic in its presentation of a three-dimensional character.*" - Brian Tallerico, ***RogerEbert.com***
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1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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A young woman anticipating marriage is threatened with sterilization because the moral people of the town believe her family to be degenerate. The film accuses authorities of turning a deaf ear to people condemned to be sterilized by the courts.
20) 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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