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The winter's tale [videorecording] / a BBC Television production in association with Time-Life Television.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Shakespeare, William, BBC TV Shakespeare (London, England) ; | Shakespeare collectionPublication details: French Forest, NSW : BBC Active, 2006.Description: 1 videodisc (173 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436 SHA 2006
Production credits:
  • Producer, Jonathan Miller ; director, Jane Howell.
Cast: Starring Jeremy Kemp, Anna Calder-Marshall, Debbie Farrington and Margaret Tyzack.Summary: King Leontes unjustly accuses his wife Hermione of adultery with King Polixenes. He imprisons Hermione, who falls into a swoon he believes is death, and orders her infant daughter to be abandoned on the shore. Sixteen years later, their daughter falls in love with Polixenes's son and when they come to Leontes' kingdom, her identity is revealed. Leontes and Polixenes become friends again, and Hermione is found to be alive after all.Summary: This romance revolves around reconciliation, wrongs committed by one generation are made right in the next.
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Media Resources Taylor's Library-TC 791.436 SHA 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) DVD 1 Available CALSH,25000,02,RA 1000526036

Originally broadcast on the BBC series The Shakespeare plays in 1981.

Based on the play by William Shakespeare.

"Parts 1 to 5".

Producer, Jonathan Miller ; director, Jane Howell.

Starring Jeremy Kemp, Anna Calder-Marshall, Debbie Farrington and Margaret Tyzack.

King Leontes unjustly accuses his wife Hermione of adultery with King Polixenes. He imprisons Hermione, who falls into a swoon he believes is death, and orders her infant daughter to be abandoned on the shore. Sixteen years later, their daughter falls in love with Polixenes's son and when they come to Leontes' kingdom, her identity is revealed. Leontes and Polixenes become friends again, and Hermione is found to be alive after all.

This romance revolves around reconciliation, wrongs committed by one generation are made right in the next.

DVD ; NTSC, region 1.

Originally produced in 1980.