Shakespeare

1993 production by Cecil Clarke ; directed by Jon Scoffield.

Filmed in Boston in 1979 as two episodes of the Evening at Symphony television series, simulcast on radio station WQXR.

A compilation of rare performances from the archives of the Tony Awards, produced as PBS specials. Contains scenes from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (performed by Kevin Kline) and As you like it by William Shakespeare (performed by Morgan Freeman).

Opera based on Shakespeare’s play, A midsummer night’s dream

A 1987 performance of the opera by Verdi, based on a character of William Shakespeare’s.

Screen adaptation/directed by Michael Almereyda.

1965 story of the friendship between a bohemian, boisterous Sir John Falstaff and the young Prince of Wales in medieval England. Dramatizes the betrayal of that friendship and Falstaff’s disillusionment when the Prince becomes King of England.

Orion Pictures ; Renaissance Films PLC, in association with the BBC and Curzon Film Distributors Ltd. ; adapted for the screen by Kenneth Branagh ; produced by Bruce Sharman ; directed by Kenneth Branagh.

This program features excerpts from four Royal Shakespeare Company productions: King Lear, Coriolanus, Twelfth night, and A midsummer night’s dream. Each segment of the program includes key scenes from the play intertwined with interviews and explanations of the play by actors and directors.

Dramatization of Shakespeare’s tragedy, filmed in the Market Theatre, Johannesburg.

1965 performance starring Laurence Olivier.

Join a troupe of actors in various stages of rehearsal, presenting some of the bard's most poignant speeches that have earned their illustrious place in the history of theater, and in all of literature.

1955 film version starring Laurence Olivier.

Opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Shakespeare’s masterpiece of murder and intrique is brought to life through dance in this production by the Bolshoi Ballet.

A modern-day version of Shakespeare’s classic "Othello."

By Giuseppe Verdi

Kurosawa's adaptation of King Lear

An opera in five acts

Academy Award-winning 1998 movie.

The real-life adventures of a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule.

A retelling of the Othello story in an African setting.

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan.

Trained and experienced Shakespearean actors, stars of the Royal Shakespeare Company, examine Shakespeare’s works and words.

Convicted felons at Kentucky's Luther Luckett Correctional Complex rehearse for the Shakespearean production, The Tempest, as part of the Shakespeare Behind Bars Program.