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"For this updated edition of one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, Tom Lockwood has added a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends, performance and adaptation practices which have occurred over the last two decades. Investigating the latest critical frames through which the play has been interpreted, the updated introduction also focuses on recent international performances on stage and screen (including Al Pacino's performances...
2) Othello
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"Othello, the general of the Venetian army, holds much power and influence but becomes the target of an insidious plot to steal his coveted position. He is overcome with paranoia and enthralled with rumors of his wife's potential infidelity. Othello has fallen in love with a senator's daughter, Desdemona, and the two secretly marry. Their partnership generates shock and confusion as Desdemona was also loved by Roderigo, who'd already asked for her...
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In Othello, William Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background. Yet most readers and audiences believe the couple's strong love would overcome these differences were it not for Iago, who...
5) Otelo
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Clasicos de la literatura volume 13
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Español
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La historia original del moro de Venecia, de Gianbattista Giraldi Cinthio (1565), sirvió a William Shakespeare para crear Otelo, la única de sus "grandes tragedias" basada en una obra de ficción. Contraviniendo la imagen isabelina del "moro", Shakespeare invierte los papeles de los protagonistas y otorga al moro Otelo el carácter de hombre noble y aristocrático, mientras que reserva para el italiano Yago la perversidad y la hipocresía, desarrollando...
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20th Century Studios
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[2023]
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English
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Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
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ARD Degeto
Pub. Date
c2011
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Deutsch
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Doctored evidence. A wealthy woman is murdered and her cleaning lady is blamed. Brunetti wonders why the woman has so much money, but no visible means of income.
Uniform justice. Brunetti is upset about the death of a cadet at the San Martino Military Academy.
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ARD Degeto
Pub. Date
c2011, p2005
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Deutsch
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Death in a strange country. The body of a young man in found floating in a canal, and later is identified as a U.S. health inspector.
Episode 11: Death In A Strange Country - The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. Episode 12: A Sea Of Trouble - When the murder of two fishermen brings Brunetti to investigate the island of Pellestrina's tight-knit community,...
11) Summertime
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Criterion collection volume 22
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In a tour de force of fearless vulnerability, Katharine Hepburn embodies the conflicting emotions that stir the heart of a lonely, middle-aged American tourist who is forced to confront her deep-seated insecurities when she is drawn into a seemingly impossible affair with a charming Italian shopkeeper amid the ancient city's canals and piazzas.
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MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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Deutsch
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Vendetta : A high profile attorney and a prominent tax adviser are murdered within days of each other, and Brunetti's investigation leads to Senora Ceroni, and a human-trafficking syndicate within the cream of Venetian society.
The anonymous Venetian : The investigation of a murdered bank executive, whose body is found clad in women's attire, leads Brunetti to the subculture of transvestites and male prostitutes, among whom are many characters that...
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MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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Deutsch
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Fatal remedies: In nighttime Venice, a woman shatters the window of a travel agency. When the police arrive, she puts up no resistance. The woman is Paola Brunetti, Inspector Brunetti's wife. She is convinced that the agency caters to paedophiles seeking sex in poor Asian and African countries.
A noble radiance: Brunetti's search for justice puts him against a powerful Venetian family. The man whose skeleton is found in a field outside of Venice...
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MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
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Deutsch
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Death at La Fenice: After a famous conductor dies from cyanide poisoning during the intermission of his concert, Brunetti probes into the maestro's past, and uncovers a shocking picture of immorality and ruthlessness, as well as a legion of bitter enemies, some of whom have held a grudge for many decades. Based on Donna Leon's first Comissarrion Brunetti novel which introduced Guido Brunetti to crime fiction fans worldwide.--Container
Friends in...
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MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
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Deutsch
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The girl of his dreams : A ten-year-old Roma girl is found dead in a Venetian Canal. Commissario Brunetti goes to the encampment where she lived, but his attempts to speak with the community there are futile. When he learns who had befriended the victim and her little brother, he begins to understand the community's silence. It also explains why he's hit obstacles preventing the investigation.--Container
Looks are deceiving : The murder of a trucking...
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MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
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Deutsch
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Quietly in their sleep : Mysterious deaths in a Venice retirement community are brought to Inspector Brunetti's attention by a young nun who is then nearly killed herself. Brunetti's investigation turns up some unsettling connections to a secret church organization and to one of its charismatic members, a priest who is the community's resident confessor.--Container
Acqua alta : First a museum director and an antiquities dealer are murdered. Then...
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MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
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Deutsch
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Through a glass darkly : The Venetian island of Murano is known for its artisans who specialize in the traditional craft of glass making. When the owner of a glass factory is found murdered, Commissario Brunetti uncovers a connection between the colorful, filigree glass products that he made and some very toxic poisons. How else to explain the colorful slime containing arsenic oozing out from the factory?--Container
Suffer the little children :...
18) Don't look now
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Criterion collection volume 745
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English
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A married couple takes an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences.
19) Death in Venice
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Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. Setting Mann₂s story of queer desire and bodily decay against the music of Gustav Mahler, it is one of cinema₂s most exalted literary adaptations.
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