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You know what a "serious collector" is -- a euphemism for a person who is willing to spend some ducats.  Some of us can only dream of owning the things listed on this page.  Each item would make a great addition to a video collection or to a personal library.

BBC Complete   Hamlet (signed)  Olivier Richard III   OED   First Folio   More's Richard III

The BBC spent 6 years putting the 37 Shakespeare plays on tape.  The entire collection is available at Amazon.com at a tremendous savings over the cost of the individual programs.  Connect here to order all 37 BBC Shakespeare videos. Or . . . peruse the list of the 37 individual BBC videos on the BBC TV page of Shakespeare's Forest.

VHS Tape VHS Video edition (May 1996)
AMBROSE VIDEO

This is a wonderful opportunity.  These have been "out of print" for years. 

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Hamlet (signed and numbered edition)
by Kenneth Branagh, William Shakespeare, Russell Jackson, Rolf Konow
Amazon.com price: $100.00 (as of 6/98)
Hardcover (December 1996)
W W Norton & Co (Sd)

ADVANCE NOTICE:

If you are an Olivier devotee, connect directly to Amazon.com and pre-order this Richard III version due out in the year 2000.  Letterbox edition (January 2000)

Really, really serious about language?  You need an Oxford English Dictionary for your home.  You know, the one you use at the library that has all the volumes?  Complete etymology on every entry?

Connect to Amazon.com to order The Compact Oxford English Dictionary/Book, Magnifying Glass and User's Guide
by J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner
Amazon price: $350.00 (as of 7/98)
Hardcover - 2386 pages New/2Nd/box edition (November 1991)
Oxford University Press
 

Shakespeare's First Folio Order Here.The First Folio of Shakespeare : Based on Folios in the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection

by William Shakespeare, Charlton Hinman (Editor), Peter W. M. Blayney.  Slip case.
Hardcover 2nd edition (October 1996)
W. W. Norton & Company

 

History of Richard III -- Order HereThe Complete Works of St. Thomas More : The History of King Richard III

by Richard S. Sylvester
Hardcover (December 1963)
Yale Univ. Press;

This is the history Shakespeare used as a source for Richard III.   Prospero's Information Sprite

 

Take me home!Last updated 28 November, 1998

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