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1) Hamlet
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents Shakespeare's play about an indecisive Danish prince urged on to revenge against his uncle by his murdered father, along with scene-by-scene analysis, commentary on past and current productions, and an overview of Shakespeare's theatrical career.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Two royal princes, slacker, weed-smoking Thadeous and the noble Fabious, join with an elusive warrior on a quest to free a princess from an evil wizard. Along the way, they'll have to vanquish horrific creatures and traitorous knights in this raunchy trip loaded with footage too outrageous for theaters.
Author
Language
English
Description
"This updated edition includes: newly re-edited play text and revised commentary notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to the play's famous lines and phrases, an introduction to reading Shakespeare's language, an essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play, fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books, [and] an up-to-date annotated guide to further reading." -- Page [4]...
4) Cinderella
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The beautiful and young Cinderella finds her life of drudgery at the hands of her stepmother and two wicked stepsisters changed forever in one evening, thanks to a fairy godmother and a handsome prince.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A struggling NYC matchmaker is hired by a king to find his son a suitable wife in time for a national celebration. As the clock ticks towards her deadline, the matchmaker finds him the perfect wife, only to realize that she's fallen in love with him!"--Container.
7) Descendants
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The offspring of Disney villains get a chance of redemption when they are freedon from the forbidden Isle of the Lost.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This fairy tale spoof starts as Snow White steals a pair of red shoes that transform her into a princess. Meanwhile, a witch's curse turns seven brave princes into dwarfs, forcing them to seek out the princess, hoping for a kiss to break the spell.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Videl
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
Miranda Richardson and Tom Hollander star as Queen Mary and King George V. After discovering that their son Prince John (Daniel Williams and Matthew Thomas) suffers from epilepsy and learning disabilities, the royals have the boy sent off to be raised in a rural farmhouse, lest he tarnish the family's image of superiority. Removed from the public eye and the attention of his parents, Prince John forms a loving bond with his nurse, Lalla (Gina McKee)....
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a prince: Susanna gladly accepts help from handsome stranger Nate at her parents' garden store in small-town Georgia. Sparks fly, but when a photo of them gets leaked to the press, Susanna is in for the shock of her life when Nate is called back home by his mother...for his coronation as King Nathaniel of Cambria!
Royal hearts: Kelly and her father, Hank, receive news that he has inherited an estate in a different country. Upon their arrival,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The second season begins with Mary and Francis on the throne of a nation burning. France is rocked by the aftereffects of the plague, a disease that crept inside the castle walls, taking thousands upon thousands of lives across the land, and ravaging the stability of a nation. From the ashes, powerful lords will rise, carrying out personal, religious and political vendettas, taking lives, and tearing at Mary and Francis2 commitment to their people;...
12) Hamlet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A tormented prince of Denmark has mixed feelings about avenging his father's murder.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The fourth and final season finds Mary rising to the challenge, taking back her country and establishing her rule in Scotland, the land of her birth but a wild nation foreign to her, and now, once again, her home. There will be impossibly high stakes, unexpected betrayals, sexual exploits, a royal wedding, a royal birth and a rising body count as three queens in three nations fight for their people, their loves, and their lives.
14) Hamlet
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In this first-ever full-text film of William Shakespeare's work, the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
16) Ophelia
Publisher
IFC Films, Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The unspoken, complex heroine of Hamlet shares her own story through modern language in contemporary Denmark. As a rebellious and motherless child, Ophelia is taken into Elsinore Castle by Queen Gertrude as one of her most trusted ladies-in-waiting. Soon enough, Ophelia captures the affections of the young Prince Hamlet. A passionate romance kindles between the two in secret as the kingdom is on the brink of war amidst its own political intrigue and...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The four Pevensie children - Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy - return to Narnia, only to discover that hundreds of years have passed since they ruled there. Now, crowning himself king, the evil General Miraz has taken charge. The children enlist the help of a heroic mouse called Reepicheep. They set out find the exiled Prince Caspian, determined to see him rightfully named king.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ever since Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, was a little girl, the English have wanted her country and her crown. As a teenager, Mary is sent to France to wed its next king to save herself and her people. Waiting at the French Court is the gorgeous Prince Francis, his illegitimate half-brother Sebastian, a king on the brink of madness, a scheming queen, and the seer Nostradamus with a devastating prophecy.
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