The Media Library of Genesee Valley BOCES

Shelley's death and funeral epitomizes the individualistic and emotional spirit of the Romantic Age

Selections from Bryant, Hawthorne, Frost, and more, illustrate the varied literature and philosophy of New England

This program presents an in-depth look at the tragic life of one of America's most mysterious writers

Shows the experiences and varied environments of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

As Douglas Campbell explains it, "Contradictions, seeming truths, concealed meanings, double meanings...we are in a world in which appearances cannot be trusted. The entire William Shakespeare play is built on a paradox: 'Nothing is but what is not.'"

Perhaps the capacity for good and evil within the same human heart sums up William Shakespeare's message

Are the witches goddesses of fate, wicked old hags, or figments of Macbeth's imagination? How is it possible to portray Macbeth as a brutal murderer who remains a tragic hero throughout the play? Is Duncan a corrupt, senile man? Douglas Campbell interprets the character in the William Shakespeare play

Jane Austen's life spanned the dramatic years of the Napoleonic Wars, but it was her quiet, almost parochial family life in Hampshire and the fashionable society of Bath that most influenced her writing

A wonderfully dramatic interweaving of the domestic lives of the highly literate Bronte family and representative selections from Wuthering Heights

Maynard Mack observes that Hamlet is really the story of a ruined kingdom, where the poisoning is both literal and figurative, affecting everyone in the play