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This drama is about love and marriage. But the path to marriage in this play is unusually hazardous. ... To win Portia's hand, Bassanio must put his future at risk in an attempt to choose correctly among three caskets or chests of gold, silver, and lead. If he chooses rightly, he wins, in marriage, the beautiful, intelligent, and supremely resourceful Portia and her great wealth. If he chooses wrongly, he must forever abandon Portia and may never...
2) Othello
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Othello, a high-ranking Moorish soldier, marries Desdemona, daughter of a Venetian senator who opposes the marriage. Othello wins over her family, but a frustrated ensign, Iago, sabotages his happiness by insinuating that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, another officer. Jealousy, racial overtones, confusion, fear, and lies eventually destroy love, honor, friendship, and respect.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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Othello, a general in the Venetian army, has married the lovely Desdemona, and Roderigo is unhappy. He was hoping to woo Desdemona for himself. The villain Iago helps Roderigo extract revenge in one of William Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.
6) The tourist
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank (Johnny Depp), a mild-mannered American on vacation in Venice, Italy is befriended by Elise (Angelina Jolie), a breathtakingly beautiful woman with a mysterious secret. Soon, their playful romantic dalliance turns into a complicated web of dangerous deceit as they are chased by Interpol, the Italian police, and Russian hit men.
7) The tourist
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, Frank unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with Elise, an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly evolves as they find themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Publisher
ARD Degeto
Pub. Date
2011, c2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 176 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
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...
11) Death in Venice
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (131 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 178 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Deutsch
Description
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...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, p2004, 2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
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...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, p2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
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...
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, p2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 181 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Doctored evidence. Signora Battestini is dead and to everyone who knew her, it wasn't a moment too soon. Her impoverished Romanian cleaning lady gets pegged for the crime and Brunetti's boss declares the case closed. What continues to mystify Brunetti is why the old woman had so much money with no visible means of income. And what exactly has her lawyer done with her many scattered bank accounts?--Container
Uniform justice. Brunetti is deeply affected...
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"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...
Publisher
Bavaria Media
Pub. Date
[2011, p2006, 2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 179 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
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. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container
A sea of troubles. When the murder of two fishermen...
18) Othello
Series
Criterion collection volume 870
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (267 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (10 pages, folded : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.
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