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William Shakespeare: King Lear

The film, based on William Shakespeare's play, paints an authentic picture of the dark and intriguing French-English confrontation in medieval Europe. The powerful but old King Lea...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown and married his mother.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Three men making up The Reduced Shakespeare Company perform the entire 37 play canon from William Shakespeare in under two hours. A lot of quick costume changes and even more laugh...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

A modernized adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night".

William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama

William Shakespeare's life produced an unmatched legacy of drama and poetry. But the Bard's own story remains mostly a mystery. Track clues to Shakespeare's identity, from his yout...

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

Lucentio loves Bianca but cannot court her until her shrewish older sister Katherina marries. The eccentric Petruccio marries the reluctant Katherina and uses a number of tactics t...

William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.

William Shakespeare's The Tempest

A betrayed spaceship captain, Prospero, is marooned on a desert planet with his daughter Miranda. He uses his mastery of magic and android servant, Ariel, to shipwreck the very cre...

William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus

A modern telling of William Shakespeare's darkest drama set against the backdrop of a corporate Rome.

The 'Bard of Avon': William Shakespeare

Meet the man widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, called England’s “national poet”: William Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare: The Life and Times Of

There's no name better known in the world of Literature than William Shakespeare, and whatever your feelings about such dramatic offerings as "Romeo and Juliet", "Twelfth Night", "...

Romeo + Juliet

In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo a...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

The Taming of the Shrew

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announ...

The Merchant of Venice

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested ...

Macbeth

Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays ...

William Shakespeare: Monology

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

Love, conflict, family - nobody's done it better. Acting legends reflect on the greatest writer who ever lived – and the dangerous, exciting world that ignited his creativity.