Stevenson, Juliet

Overview

Works:	367 works in 943 publications in 9 languages and 29,966 library holdings
Roles:	Actor, Narrator, Performer, Costume designer
Classifications:	pn1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

1950 |

|2020

Key

Publications about Juliet Stevenson

Publications by Juliet Stevenson

Most widely held works about Juliet Stevenson

Poetic voices of Thomas Hardy ( Visual )
Antigone ( Visual )
Oedipus at Colonus ( Visual )
Dance house ( Visual )

Most widely held works by Juliet Stevenson

Mona Lisa smile ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 1,684 libraries worldwide
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.

Emma ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 1,229 libraries worldwide
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification.

Bend it like Beckham ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 1,222 libraries worldwide
Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team.

Being Julia ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 1,209 libraries worldwide
London, 1938. Julia is a true West End diva: beautiful, talented, wealthy, and famous. She has a devoted husband who has masterminded her brilliant career - but after years of the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. She finds what she is looking for in a handsome young American fan, who adds a few more sparks than Julia was hoping for.

Bend it like Beckham ( Visual )
13 editions published between 2002 and 2008 in English and Hindi and held by 1,164 libraries worldwide
Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team.

Emma ( Visual )
10 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in English and Italian and held by 1,038 libraries worldwide
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification.

Infamous ( Visual )
4 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 960 libraries worldwide
While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.

Antigone ( Visual )
28 editions published between 1984 and 2008 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 936 libraries worldwide
A unique adaptation of the play by Sophocles.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre ( Visual )
10 editions published between 1983 and 2009 in English and held by 792 libraries worldwide
The Prince of Tyre is pursued by the vengeance of King Antiochus because he discovered the monarch's incestuous relationship with his daughter. Fleeing from place to place, Pericles is shipwrecked, courts, and marries Thaisa. Their child, Marina, raised by friends when Thaisa is believed to have died, is kidnapped by pirates and sold into a brothel before Thaisa is discovered alive and the family is joyfully reunited.

When did you last see your father ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 611 libraries worldwide
A 40-year-old writer visits his dying father. He begins to relive the memories of the past - both good and bad - and he is forced to realize that his once "immortal, invincible and infallible" father is human after all.

I, Coriander by Sally Gardner ( Recording )
11 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and held by 590 libraries worldwide
In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.

The magician's elephant by Kate DiCamillo ( Recording )
6 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 557 libraries worldwide
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ( Recording )
23 editions published between 1993 and 2010 in English and held by 556 libraries worldwide
A novel about the problems of a young governess, whose love affair with her master is terminated when the terrifying mystery surrounding the upper rooms of their home is exposed.

Truly madly deeply ( Visual )
12 editions published between 1990 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 532 libraries worldwide
A young woman's world falls apart when her boyfriend dies. When he unexpectedly returns to life as a ghost, she must choose between the man she truly, madly, deeply loved--and a new man who is truly, madly, deeply alive.

Oedipus at Colonus ( Visual )
18 editions published between 1986 and 2008 in English and held by 525 libraries worldwide
This play recounts the blind, exiled Oedipus' final days. The primary action involves a fight over where Oedipus is to die (as that place is to become hallowed ground). Familial interactions also play a key role in the drama.

The road from Coorain ( Visual )
5 editions published between 2002 and 2010 in English and held by 508 libraries worldwide
Video adaptation of Jill Ker Conway's book about an idyllic life in Australia permanently altered by a series of disasters. Conway later became president of Smith College.

In search of Mozart ( Visual )
5 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and held by 464 libraries worldwide
A documentary about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart told through dramatic readings from his personal letters. Includes interviews with noted personalities and excerpts from numerous musical performances.

To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf ( Recording )
17 editions published between 1995 and 2010 in English and held by 384 libraries worldwide
The Ramsay family and the one summer spent with their friends in their holiday home in Scotland. Offshore stands the lighthouse; remote, inaccessible, and an external presence in a changing world.

Emma by Jane Austen ( Recording )
22 editions published between 1996 and 2010 in English and held by 376 libraries worldwide
Presents Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker.

Paris was a woman ( Visual )
10 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in English and held by 367 libraries worldwide
Through a combination of still photos, archival film footage, and interview commentary, documents the creative community of French, English and American women, many of whom were lesbians, who gravitated to the Left Bank in Paris during the early part of the 20th century.