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See pages 74-76 UPDATED UPDATED A History of Black 21st Century Turning Points in Achievement in America U.S. History (2000-2017) A brand new ninth program gets added to Gives an overview of the many this groundbreaking, newly remastered in transformational milestones in American HD, series about the amazing history of technology and culture in the first two Black achievement in America. decades of the 21st century. See page 30 See page 20 3 LITERATURE ARTS AA HistoryHistory ofof GREATGREAT PLAYWRIGHTSPLAYWRIGHTS PRODUCT INFORMATION From the beginnings of western democracy in ancient Greece, plays have been a part of the human experience, helping us understand ourselves and make sense of the world. This five part series, A History of Great Playwrights, hosted by William Ambrose, founder of Ambrose Video Publishing, focuses on the rich literary tradition of the theater – its plays and playwrights, including such greats as Sophocles, Terence, William Shakespeare, Molière, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O’Neill, Bertolt Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tom Stoppard. With their unique perspective of the world around them, these playwrights have added depth and meaning to the world’s great body of literature. Program 1: Antiquity to the Renaissance Program one examines the origins of plays and the earliest playwrights from ancient Greece to the Elizabethan Age. 456 BC - Sophocles and the Greek Playwrights 191 BC - Titus Maccius Plautus and the Roman Theater Features: 1587 - Christopher Marlowe Writes Tamburlaine the Great Closed Captioned 1594 - Shakespeare Pens Romeo and Juliet High Definition Program 2: The Theater Responds to Industrialization Educator’s Guide Program two investigates how playwrights all over Europe reacted to social change in Important Plays List the Age of Industrialization. Timeline 1598 - Ben Jonson Establishes a New Kind of Comedy 5 programs 1662 - Molière’s The School for Wives Premieres in Paris 1867 - Henrik Ibsen Revitalizes the Theater with Peer Gynt Runtime: 29 minutes each 1888 - August Strindberg, Father of Naturalistic Drama 1895 - Oscar Wilde’s Masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest REVIEW Program 3: The Theater Turns Inward "According to this 5-part program, hosted by Bill Ambrose, plays As the Age of Industrialization reached its zenith in Europe and America, playwrights have been part of the human ex- responded by delving into the depths of the human mind. Program three shows how perience since ancient Greece, and playwrights, actors, and audi- European and American playwrights turned to psychology for inspiration. ences continue to appreciate the 1897 - Edmond Rostand Writes Cyrano de Bergerac rich literary traditions of theater. 1904 - Anton Chekov's Last Play, The Cherry Orchard, Premieres in Moscow The 30-minute, chronologically 1913 - George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion arranged titles chronicle the 1920 - John Galsworthy’s The Skin Game is Performed history of playwrights. Ambrose 1920 - Eugene O’Neill Wins First Pulitzer Prize offers an overview of historical 1923 - Sean O'Casey Begins the Dublin Trilogy events and key players of each respective era. The first title, An- tiquity to the Renaissance, visits Program 4: The Theater Responds to Modernism the remains of the earliest outdoor This program examines how the epicenter of the theater and playwriting shifted to the theater in Greece. An interviewed United States, and how the musical became a major part of the theater. scholar explains the difference between tragedy and comedy, and 1928 - Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera is Performed voice-over narration introduces the 1938 - Thornton Wilder Writes Our Town works of Sophocles and Euripides. 1948 - Tennessee Williams Wins His First Pulitzer Prize for A Street Car Named Desire Information is also provided about 1949 - Arthur Miller Produces Death of a Salesman Roman playwrights Plautus and 1949 - The Musical Comes of Age Seneca, who adapted early Greek plays, adding complex characters Program 5: The Great Resurgence of the Theater and special effects. The program concludes with a survey of At the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st, change engulfed the Christopher Marlowe's and William world from social issues to the transmission of information. In Program five we’ll see Shakespeare's works. Location how playwrights dealt with the psychological and social changes of the era. footage, period artwork, and ex- cerpted performance clips add 1953 - Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot Premieres variety. The chronological flow and 1954 - Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow Premieres in Dublin historical perspectives allow view- 1959 - Eugène Ionesco's ‘Theater of the Absurd’ ers to understand the effect of 1962 - Edward Franklin Albee Writes Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? social changes on theater and the 1987 - August Wilson Wins a Pulitzer and a Tony for Fences ways playwrights built on the 2005 - Harold Pinter Wins the Nobel Prize works of their predecessors." 2008 - The New Wave in Theater - Booklist 4 BBC CLASSIC BBCBBC SHAKESPEARESHAKESPEARE PLAYSPLAYS REVIEWS "This entire Shakespeare series ...is highly recommended for both school and public library literature collections." - Booklist "For many collections, the BBC Shakespeare series was among the earliest and most significant acquisitions. At Berkeley and many other institutions, the series has come to be regarded as the canon against which other Shakespeare performances on film are measured and compared..." -Gary Handman, Director, Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley Features: Closed Captioned "Shakespeare Would Be Amused...by the care, money, time and talent that are 37 Plays being lavished on the mammoth task of producing all 37 of his plays..." Chaptered by Acts - TV Guide