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Our Schools' Search Page allows you to browse or search all of book&volume's titles. You can browse by subject area, or you can search by author, title, all or EAN (13-digit ISBN). Each title you view - by browsing or specific search - permits you to examine similar titles by clicking the related keywords.
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Useful Links for Schools: See Bottom of Page...
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New Releases (low-res pdfs):
Introduction to Classical Comics' forthcoming Macbeth INTERACTIVE Motion Comic
Announcement about Two New Series from Cinebook
Latest Cinebook arrivals [May 2010]
Latest Cinebook arrivals [June 2010]
Latest Cinebook arrivals [July 2010]
Introduction to Playing With Plays
June/July 2010 Releases from David R. Godine
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Printable Book/Price Lists & Book Info (low-res pdfs):
*Cinebook
*Cinebook & Dalen Titles Listed by Reading Age
*Classical Comics
*Dalen
*David R. Godine
*Northcote House: Writers & Their Work Series
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Contact our Victorian Schools Representative to arrange a time for us to display our books at your school OR for us to meet with your Head of English or Teacher Librarian.
Victorian Schools Representative:
Ellen Fox
(03) 8060 0221 / 0425 105 216
bookandvolume@iinet.net.au
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*SPECIAL School Price for A Set of Shakespeare's Works - click here
*SPECIAL School Prices for 1st Editions from Northcote House's Writers & Their Work Series - click here
*MORE SPECIALS* Real Reads...The Classics Retold! *MORE SPECIALS*
Jane Austen ~ Charles Dickens ~ Bronte Sisters ~ Classic Science Fiction Titles ~ Mark Twain
Special Price for Schools $9.99 each (were $14.95)
A valuable tool for building the confidence of ESL students and students with reading difficulties.
~ Written for younger readers (8-13 years) ~
These titles are a simple introduction to the concepts and historical perspectives of our greatest works of fiction.
Each text is a retelling of a classic work of fiction in 3,500-4,500 word, with colour illustrations throughout to bring them to life.
Click here for the full selection Real Read titles
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*NEW* Playing With Plays *NEW*
Macbeth ~ Romeo & Juliet ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream ~ Julius Caesar
3 Short Melodramatic Plays for 3 Group Sizes
Brendan P. KELSO (creative editor) ~ Illustrated by Shana Lopez ~ AU$16.95each
Designed for 5-17+ actors, kids of all ages, or anyone who wants to enjoy and loosely understand Shakespeare's plays.
•Fun!
•3 melodramatic modifications for different group sizes
•Actual lines from Shakespeare's plays mixed in
•Creatively funny interpretations of the remaining scripts
•Delightfully funny renditions that are easy for ADULTS to understand too!
•A kid who loves Shakespeare!
Click here for more information on these titles
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*COMING SOON* Macbeth INTERACTIVE Motion Comic *COMING SOON*
Classical Comics are excited to present the first product in their new range of electronic applications. They've taken the stunning artwork of their award-winning Macbeth - The Graphic Novel and created an INTERACTIVE Motion Comic featuring all three text versions (Original Text, Plain Text and Quick Text) in one engaging visual and audio experience! Not only that, but they have also managed to secure the vocal talents of the fabulous Juliet Stevenson to play Lady Macbeth, and the eminent Sir Derek Jacobi for the title role in the Original Text version.
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Graphic Classics for the Classroom by Classical Comics
Classic works of English literature carefully transformed into award-winning and stunning graphic novels.
'Herewith a few kind words:- The concept of Classical Comics is truly inspirational ... The stage and page are brought vividly to life. The artwork of Jon Haward is both dramatically compelling and beautifully illustrative. His pictures illuminate the words to perfection and bring these great works leaping to mind and eye. This format is immediate, vital, energetic and engaging. Highly recommended for any student of Shakespeare!' - Derek Jacobi, October 2009
Shakespearean Titles
Classical Comics ~ 1st Edition ~ AU$25.95
Click here to view the Macbeth scene extract of 'tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow' from each of the three text versions.
Classical Comics ~ 1st Edition ~ AU$25.95
A finalist in this year's Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Awards in the Reading and Language Arts category
Click here to view the balcony scene extract from each of the three text versions of Romeo & Juliet
Classical Comics ~ 1st Edition ~ AU$25.95
Classical Comics ~ 1st Edition ~ AU$25.95
Winner of the 2010 US Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal for Graphic Novel/Drawn Book – Drama/Documentary
A finalist in this year's AEP Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Awards in the Reading and Language Arts category
Classic Titles
Classical Comics ~ 1st Edition ~ AU$25.95
Classical Comics ~ 1st Edition ~ AU$25.95
Classical Comics ~ 1st Edition ~ AU$25.95
Classical Comics ~ 1st Edition ~ AU$25.95
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A range of Traditional, Modern & Alternative DVDs are also available for your classroom
book&volume endeavours to stock the widest possible range of Shakespeare on DVD.
Compare and Discuss in Your Classroom
Search 'DVD' for our full range
Macbeth on DVD
BBC 2004 AU$14.95 DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 4 DVD with duration of 147 minutes. Rated PG.
Starring: Nicol Williamson, Jane Lapotaire, James Bolam, Brenda Bruce, James Hazeldine, Eileen Way, James Bolam (Voice). Directed by: Jack Gold.
One of Shakespeare's bloodiest plays, first shown in 1983, stars Nicol Williamson as Macbeth, Jane Lapotaire as Lady Macbeth, James Hazeldine as Malcolm and James Bolam as Porter.
ISBN: 9397810084391 [Stock #3547]
Thames/Fremantle Media 1978 AU$22.95 DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 4 DVD with duration of 146 minutes, Rated PG.
Trevor Nunn's highly acclaimed Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company has been praised as the most successful Shakespeare production for many years. This production retains the original RSC cast, in which Sir Ian McKellen appears as Macbeth and Dame Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. McKellen won the 1976 Plays and Players Best Actor Award, and Dench the 1977 Society of West End Theatres' Best Actress award, for their performances in the play. Cast: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Bob Peck, Roger Rees, Marie Keen, John Bowen, Ian McDiarmid, John Woodvine, Susan Dury, Duncan Preston, Judith Harte, Greg Hicks, Zak Taylor, Griffith Jones, Stephen Warner.
ISBN: 9322225035478 [Stock #5200]
DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 4 DVD with duration of 146 minutes, Rated MA 15+.
Shakespeare's savage tale of power, murder and revenge transplanted to 21st century gangland Melbourne in this highly acclaimed, 5-time AFI Award nominated hit. Promising a bruising cocktail of drama and violence, Macbeth features stunning performances from Sam Worthington (as the loyal henchman who plots an accelerated rise to the top), Victoria Hill, Lachy Hulme, Gary Sweet, Steve Bastoni and Mick Molloy in an electrifying example of filmmaking at its most daring and most compelling.
ISBN: 9317731047947 [Stock #5201]
Columbia Studios 1978 AU$30.95 DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 1 DVD with duration of 140 minutes, Rated M. Region 1 DVDs can only be played in the following territories: U.S., U.S. Territories, Canada, and Bermuda, unless you have a multi-region DVD player.
Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt and the dead king's son conspires to attack Macbeth and expose him for the murderer he is. Cast: Francesca Annis, Jon Finch, Martin Shaw, John Stride, Nicholas Selby, Terence Bayler, Stephen Chase
ISBN: 9317731029905 [Stock #5202]
Naxos 2009 AU$27.95 DVD ~ 130 x 140 mm. DVD with duration of 152 minutes.
Driven to bloody regicide by supernatural prophecies and his wife's obsessive ambition, Macbeth is one of Verdi's most profoundly modern anti-heroes - a political animal doomed by his very success. Daniele Callegari conducts the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana and Coro Lirico Marchigiano 'V. Bellini' in this performance of Verdi's opera. Pier Luigi Pizzi directs this production, recorded at Italy's 2007 Sferisterio Opera Festival. Features: Giuseppe Altomare (Macbeth), Olha Zhuravel (Lady Macbeth), Pavel Kudinov (Banco), Rubens Pelizzari (Macduff).
ISBN: 0747313525850 [Stock #7567]
BBC 2006 AU$24.95 DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 4 DVD with duration of 85 minutes. Rated: M (Moderate violence).
Shakespeare's Macbeth is transposed to the enclosed and passionate world of a top restaurant kitchen; Joe Macbeth is Head Chef in an award winning restaurant owned by 'Executive Chef' Duncan. Whilst Duncan swans around from TV interview to celebrity party garnering praise and recognition for his amazing cooking, Joe is the one hard at work producing culinary masterpieces for the tables. Then, one night, three witch-like garbage men meet Joe and tell him all the glory and the restaurant can one day be all his and Macbeth is soon seduced by the destructive possibility of power. Starring James McAvoy (Shameless, The Chronicles of Narnia) as Joe Macbeth, and Keeley Hawes (Tipping The Velvet, The Avengers) as his troubled, ambitious wife. ISBN: 9398710663198 [Stock #3538]
Hamlet on DVD
BBC 2004 AU$15.95 DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 4 DVD* with duration of 214 minutes. Rated PG
Region 4 DVDs can played in the following territories: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Oceania, and South America (except French Guiana).Featuring Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Eric Porter and Lalla Ward, Hamlet is part of a unique collection of some of the finest dramatic masterpieces in the English language. Originally broadcast on BBC Television in 1981 it was highly acclaimed worldwide.
ISBN: 9397810084490 [Stock #3545]
Icon Entertainment 1990 AU$28.95 DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 4 DVD* with duration of 130 minutes. Rated PG.
Master Director Franco Zeffirelli brings Shakespeare's classic story of ultimate revenge to the screen in Hamlet.Mel Gibson stars as the tortured Prince battling with his sanity and his conscience to avenge his father's death. Cast: Ian Holm, Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Paul Scofield, Alan Bates, Helena Bonham-Carter
ISBN: 9339065000191 [Stock #5204]
Columbia Studios 1969 AU$19.95 DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 4 DVD* with duration of 112 minutes. Rated G.
Award-winner Tony Richardson directs this stunning telling of the Bard's classic tale of madness and revenge. Nicol Williamson, Anthony Hopkins and pop idol Marianne Faithfull lead the cast of handsome, full-blooded and fascinating interpretation of the timeless story. Cast: Nicol Williamson, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Gordon Jackson, Mark Dignam, Marianne Faithfull
ISBN: 9317731029820 [Stock #5203]
Warner Home Entertainment 2007 AU$45.00 DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. Region 1 DVD with duration of 242 minutes.Originally released on video in 1996. Region 1 DVDs can only be played in the U.S., U.S. Territories, Canada, and Bermuda, unless you have a multi-region DVD player.
Often credited with creating a popular movie audience for Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh wanted for many years to bring to the screen the complete, full-length version of Hamlet, Shakespeare's greatest play. With an outstanding cast of international actors - including Derek Jacobi as Claudius, Julie Christie as Gertrude, Kate Winslet as Ophelia, Charlton Heston as the Player King, Robin Williams as Osric, and Gerard Depardieu as Reynaldo - Branagh's version, in which he plays the title role as well as directs, will go down in film history. Now presented in an amazing 2-Disc Special Edition. ISBN: 9781419849725 [Stock #6495]
BBC 2009 AU$39.95 DVD ~ 195 x 140 mm. ~ Region 2 & Region 4 DVD* with duration of 182 minutes. Rated PG
Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company features David Tennant's thrilling, mercurial, and often very funny stars central performance. This visually sumptuous screen version, filmed on location with the original stage cast, captures the atmosphere and excitement of the critically acclaimed production. Patrick Stewart won an Olivier Award for his performance as Claudius, King of Denmark. Penny Downie plays Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, and Mariah Gales is the tragic Ophelia. Edward Bennett is Ophelia's avenging brother Laertes, and Oliver Ford Davies takes the role of their father Polonius.
ISBN: 5051561031304 [Stock #7957]
Region 4 DVDs can played in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Oceania, and South America (except French Guiana).
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Useful Links
English Teachers Australia
www.englishteacher.com.au
Learning with Bell Shakespeare
Click here for more information and to see what the Bell Shakespeare Learning Program has to offer throughout 2010.
Good Reading Magazine
Good Reading Magazine now has a page for teachers. Click here to find out more and to see how Good Reading can be used in the class room.
The Shakespeare Centre
http://theshakespearecentre.blogspot.com/
