Movies: William Shakespeare

Live from Stratford-upon-Avon. The Royal Shakespeare Company presents As You Like It....

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and compare missives, they plan a practical joke or two to teach th...

Unable to accept her father's death, Ophelia wanders through the woods in search of him. Along the way, she encounters her fiancé Hamlet and Queen Gertrude, who appear to her as ghosts, offering her only hateful or threatening advice. Driven to despa...

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With a friend desperate for money, a merchant takes out a loan from a ruthless money-lender. Confident that his ships will soon be bringing him great wealth, the merchant willingly agrees to conditions of the loan that put him at great personal risk....

Who have you allowed into your home during the pandemic? In Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost, a group of young men is determined not to waste this time — they will study, they will better themselves, they will not get distracted by anything, most e...

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Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017. The world premiere recording of Brett Deans new opera based on Shakespeares best-known tragedy: To be, or not to be. This is Hamlets dilemma, and the es...

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself....

Shakespeare's drama "Hamlet" has been performed all over the world, and performed three times by the Takarazuka Revue. This time it will be in modern Denmark, with everything developed in the form of the ghosts ("black spirits" which cannot pass on) ...

Although several others are ahead of him in the line of succession, Richard of Gloucester is determined to gain the throne. Through deceit, manipulation, and murder, he does become King Richard III of England. But once he becomes king, he soon finds ...

A twisted tale about a pair of lovers whose hearts are toyed with by fairies. Amidst all of this chaos, a play is to be presented to the duke ,and a group of unskilled actors think to achieve the best play possible....

The Bolshoi Ballet perform Prokofiev’s classic ballet, “Romeo and Juliet”, based on the tragic love story about two young star-crossed lovers, featuring the original choreography of Leonid Lavrovsky revised by Yuri Grigoovich....

A modernized musical version of the Shakespeare classic, set in a high school....

A poetic fantasy on the theme of "Hamlet", the heroes of which are the passengers of a tourist bus that stopped in Elsinore....

Goblin Gang's take on the opening brawl of William Shakespeare's: Romeo and Juliet...

A horror take on Shakespeare's classic comedy about several subplots revolving around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta....

A group of actors putting on a deconstructed version of Shakespeares most violent play slowly become aware they may be more than just performing, they may be living it....

A modern re-telling of Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew”, set in a motorcycle repair shop. It’s rough, it’s tough, it’s off the cuff... and it's set at Halloween....

A historical chronicle about the history of England during the reign of John Lackland....