Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a 19-year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father....
Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller.
Othello sits somewhere next to Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear as one of William Shakespeare's most celebrated tragedies.
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town.
Italian-American immigrant life in the 1950s textures this searing Arthur Miller drama of love and revenge. Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is devoted to his wife, Beatrice, and to his niece, Catherine.
In this lecture professor Peter Meineck introduces Ancient Greek drama and explains why he feels it is still so popular and powerful today.
King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare’s tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written.
Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western movement of one family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. Stars Jeffrey Donovan and Shirley Knight.
When a young black man is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit, he faces the ultimate test: learning how to die with dignity. Romulus Linney's renowned adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines novel.
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623.