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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Measure for Measure (Recorded live at the Shakespeare's Globe, 2015) Globe Theatre / Naana Agyei-Ampadu, Kurt Egyiawan, Trevor Fox, Mariah Gale, Dennis Herdman [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2016 ] Shakespeare set this darkest of comedies in Vienna to cloak a scathing critique of hypocrisy in the corrupt authority of his own London. Purity and mercy do win out in the end, but not before audiences are treated to the lighter side of depravity in... |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shew (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in 2012) Globe Theatre / Tom Godwin, Tom Anderson, Patrick Driver, Sarah MacRae, Helen Weir, Samantha Spiro, Simon Paisley Day [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "A laugh-out-loud production" Time Out |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well (recorded live in 2022) Royal Shakespeare Company / Claire Benedict, Benjamin Westerby, Rosie Sheehy, Jamie Wilkes, Will Edgerton, Bruce Alexander [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Bruce Alexander [The King of France] is best known as Superintendent Mullett in A Touch of Frost and has appeared in many other TV shows such as Berkeley Square, Casualty and Peak Practice. He has also played major roles in the theatre. |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Winter's Tale (recorded live in 2021) Royal Shakespeare Company / Andrew French, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Joseph Kloska, Georgia Landers [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] King Leontes rips his family apart but grief opens his heart. Will he find the child he abandoned before it is too late? This production of Shakespeares play is staged for the screen by the RSC. |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (recorded live in 2014) Royal Shakespeare Company / Antony Sher, Alex Hassell, Jasper Britton / Simon Godwin (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/May/2015 ] Containing Shakespeare's Henry IV parts 1 and 2, this double set features outstanding Royal Shakespeare Company productions available in a specially priced set. |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet (recorded live in 2016) Royal Shakespeare Company / Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet), Natalie Simpson (Ophelia), Cyril Nri (Polonius), Clarence Smith (Claudius), Tanya Moodie, Hiran Ab [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] Press Reviews "It is an utterly engaging performance by Paapa Essiedu." (The Times ★★★★) "... the percussive music of Sola Akingbola makes a vital contribution to a production that makes you feel, even if you are seeing Hamlet for the 50th... |
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Royal Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare: Richard III WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [ Opus Arte / DVD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Young Richard of Gloucester uses the chaos of the Wars of the Roses to begin his unscrupulous climb to power. Despite being manifestly unfit to govern, he seizes the crown as King Richard III. But how does he do it? How do we let tyrants get away... |
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Ophelia
[ Madman / DVD - released 5/Dec/2019 ] One of the world's greatest dramas is turned on its head through a bold and new perspective in OPHELIA. Set in medieval Denmark and spoken in a modern tongue with a poetic twist, it recalibrates the classic Shakespearean tragedy of "Hamlet" so that... |
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Classic Shakespeare - Henry V / Romeo & Juliet / Hamlet (Classic Matinee Triple Bill)
[ Beyond Home Entertainment / 3 DVD Box Set - released 7/May/2010 ] G :- |
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Lady Macbeth
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 9/Jan/2018 ] Rural England, 1865. Katherine is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband's estate, a force is unleashed inside... |
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Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare Trilogy
[ Imprint / 3 DVD - released 10/Jul/2025 ] The legendary Laurence Olivier appeared in over sixty films, but directed only five. Three of those five are his acclaimed Shakespeare Trilogy, collected together here in this Limited Edition 3-Disc Hardbox. These bold, vivid adaptations of the... |
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Shakespeare Behind Bars
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 9/Nov/2006 ] M - Contains moderate themes. |
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The Shakespeare's Globe Collection (27 DVD Box Set)
[ Opus Arte DVD / DVD Box Set - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Shakespeare's Globe, the reconstruction of his most famous London theatre, is at the centre of the astonishing global fascination with Britain's greatest playwright. Completed in 1997, it is a living theatrical experiment that has allowed audiences... |
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The Thames Shakespeare Collection
[ Via Vision Entertainment DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2022 ] This collection features superlative television productions of four of Shakespeare's best-loved plays. Featuring electrifying performances from some of Britain's most accomplished actors and leading RSC players, these productions bring Shakepeare's... |
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ALFRED DELLER
Portrait of a Voice - a film by Benoit Jacquot (with free CD of Shakespeare Songs) Alfred Deller [ Harmonia Mundi France / 2 DVD/CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] G : - Back in 1975 Benoit Jacquot, then a very young director met up with Alfred Deller to make this documentary-interview, which offers one of the very few filmed documents of the most famous countertenor of the modern era. |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Phyllida Lloyd's all female Shakespeare: Julius Caesar / Henry IV / The Tempest (recorded 2012-2016) Dame Harriet Walter, and full cast [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck this... |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: The Globe Collection Globe / George Irving, Catherine Bailey, Clive Wood, Eve Best, John Light, Pearce Quigley, Brendan Hughes, Naomi Frederick, and many others [ Opus Arte DVD / 23 DVD Box Set - released 25/Jun/2020 ] An invitation to stand with kings in battle, to fall in love, to witness the brutal machinations of politics, and to laugh with rogues in this 23-disc collection. |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Macbeth (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, August 2013) Globe / Joseph Millson, Samantha Spiro, Stuart Bowman, Billy Boyd / Eve Best (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his... |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in October 2009) Globe Theatre / Philip Cumbus / Trystan Gravelle / William Mannering / Jack Farthing / Michelle Terry [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "With a delightful design and jaunty music it has abundant charm… Entirely enchanting" The Times |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: As You Like It (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in October 2009) Globe / Brendan Hughes / Naomi Frederick / Laura Rogers / Philip Bird / Jamie Parker / Jack Laskey [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Naomi Frederick's superb Rosalind is a woman of wit and intelligence… Laskey's Orlando is equally bewitched, bothered and bewildered, and the playfulness between the two is a pleasure" The Guardian |