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"Prospero, once the Duke of Milan, now reigns over a faraway island, living there with his only daughter, Miranda. Twelve years earlier Prospero's brother, in league with the King of Naples, had exiled Prospero and his daughter from their home. One evening, Prospero imagines creating a sto...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenaway, Peter (Adapter, Screenwriter, Director)
Corporate Author: AAE Films, Inc. (Firm)
Other Authors: Kasander, Kees (Producer), Gielgud, John, 1904-2000 (Actor), Clark, Michael, 1962- (Actor, choreographer (expression)), Blanc, Michel, 1952- (Actor), Josephson, Erland, 1923-2012 (Actor), Pasco, Isabelle, 1966- (Actor), Bell, Tom, 1933-2006 (Actor), Cranham, Kenneth, 1944- (Actor), Rylance, Mark (Actor), Thoolen, Gerard, 1943-1996 (Actor), Bokma, Pierre (Actor), Woude, Jim van der (Actor), Romeyn, Michiel, 1955- (Actor), Orpheo (Actor) (Actor), Russell, Paul (Actor), Thiérrée, James (Dancer), Wolk, Emil (Actor), Angel, Marie, 1953- (Singer), Lemper, Ute, 1963- (Actor), Conway, Deborah (Singer) (Actor), Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001 (director of photography.), Nyman, Michael (composer (expression)), Saporta, Karine (choreographer (expression)), Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: [Den Haag, Netherlands] : Allarts Production, [2007]
Series:Allied Artists classics.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > film och TV-bearbetningar.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Prospero (Fictitious character) > Drama.
Books > Drama.
Love > Drama.
Exiles > Drama.
Revenge > Drama.
Magicians > Drama.
Castaways > Drama.
Fathers and daughters > Drama.
Shipwreck survival > Drama.
Books.
Castaways.
Exiles.
Fathers and daughters.
Love.
Magicians.
Prospero (Fictitious character)
Revenge.
Shipwreck survival.
Drama.
Erotic films.
Experimental films.
Fantasy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A book of water
  • 2. A book of mirrors
  • 3. A memoria technica called architecture and other music
  • 8. An alphabetical inventory of the dead
  • 6. An atlas belonging to Orpheus
  • 8. Vesalius's lost "Anatomy of Birth"
  • 9. A primer of the small stars
  • 10. A book of universal cosmologies
  • Enter Ariel
  • 12. End plants
  • 4. A bestiary of past, present and future animals
  • 15. A book of utopias
  • 16. A book of traveller's tales
  • 17. "Love of ruins"
  • Book of traveller's tales
  • 18. The autobiographies of Semiramis and Pasiphae
  • 19. The ninety-two conceits of the Minotaur
  • 20. A book of motion
  • 21. A book of mythologies
  • Good ship so have swallow'd
  • Those are pearls that were his eyes
  • Heavens keep him from these beasts
  • Knowing I lov'd my books
  • Summer
  • Autumn
  • Winter
  • Spring
  • 22. A book of games
  • 23. A book of thirty-five plays
  • 24. A play called "The Tempest."