Movies: William Shakespeare

Stratford Festival's production of Romeo and Juliet 1993. Megan Porter Follows (Anne of Green Gables) and Antoni Cimolino (Stratford Festival Artistic Director) star in one of the most famous love stories of all time. The tale unfolds as the familie...

44 B.C.E., Rome dominates the known world. The conquerer of a civil war, Julius Caesar is named dictator for life. Neglecting omens, Caesar pays no attention to the plots that start being woven around him in order to save the Republic....

A modern day take on the classic bard tale - with Silver as a movie producer....

On an autumn afternoon, in an empty lot outside the city, seven girls meet up to do a play. School uniform tartan transforms in this American urban wasteland. The girls are witches, ghosts, and kings. They hurl headlong into the unchecked passions of...

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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 laughs....

Shakespeare's tragedy of the wicked and hump-backed Duke of Gloucester, who rises to the throne of England by chicanery, treachery, and brilliance....

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony....

A Bochum Schauspielhaus production. In ancient Scotland, after a victorious war, Macbeth and Banquo return home. Macbeth’s name is celebrated for his prowess in battle, and witches predict he will become king. Driven by ambition and his wife’s encour...

A compelling study of personal ambition versus the good of the state....

Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with several electronic cameras. As Schroeter would recall, "I arranged the Verdi music for a quartet of violin, a...

Recreation of a scene from Macbeth....

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death, Shakespeare's Globe has assembled an all-star cast to make 37 short films – one for each play – and here's the twist: each lavish 10 minute vignette is made on location in the real setting of ...

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy....

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An excerpt of the Shakespeare play presented in the Kinetophone sound system, in which the sound was provided by synchronized Edison cylinders....

In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays....

When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persu...

A young prince's epic journey of love, obsession and betrayal...

The first installment of Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female Shakespeare Trilogy sees Harriet Walter take on the role of Brutus, who wrestles with his moral conscience over the murder of Julius Caesar....