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Much Ado About Nothing (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, August 2011) Globe / Brendan Hughes / Naomi Frederick / Laura Rogers / Philip Bird / Jamie Parker / Jack Laskey [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] One of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, Much Ado About Nothing contrasts the happiness of lovers Claudio and Hero, and the cynicism of sparring partners Beatrice and Benedick, who are united in their scorn for love. |
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Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, August 2013) Globe / John Light, Pearce Quigley, Michelle Terry, Luke Thompson, Matthew Tennyson / Dominic Dromgoole (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Hermia loves Lysander and Helena loves Demetrius - but Demetrius is supposed to be marrying Hermia… When the Duke of Athens tries to enforce the marriage, the lovers take refuge in the woods. |
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The Comedy Of Errors Globe Theatre [ Opus Arte / DVD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] Based on a farce by the Roman playwright Plautus, The Comedy of Errors is the Bard's most madcap comedy - a work full of slapstick humour and rich characterisation that centres around two sets of identical twins accidentally separated at birth.... |
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Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in June 2012) Globe Theatre / Liam Brennan, Johnny Flynn, Stephen Fry, Paul Chahidi, Colin Hurley [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] One of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, Twelfth Night was 'blissfully reborn' (Telegraph) for the 2012/13 season at London's Globe Theatre, under the direction of Tim Carroll. The hilarious tale of misdirection and deception is performed here by an... |
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Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in 2019) Globe Theatre / Pearce Quigley, Sarah Finigan, Bryony Hannah, Richard Katz, Forbes Mason, Anita Reynolds, Boadicea Ricketts / Elle While (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] "Double-meanings, disguises and dirty laundry abound as Sir John Falstaff sets about improving his financial situation by wooing Mistress Page and Mistress Ford. But the 'Merry Wives' quickly cotton on to his tricks and decide to have a bit of fun of... |
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Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, 2014) Globe / William Houston, Indira Varma, Obi Abili, Flora Spencer-Longhurst, Ian Gelder / Lucy Bailey (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] ''You leave the theatre feeling both harrowed to the marrow and disconcertingly elated.'' The Daily Telegraph |
The Shakespeare's Globe Collection (27 DVD Box Set)
[ Opus Arte / 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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Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in August 2009) BLU-RAY Globe / Andrew Vincent / Philip Cumbus / Michael O'Hagan / Atetomiwa Edun, Ellie Kendrick [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Dominic Dromgoole's production brings refreshing clarity to one of Shakespeare's most famous and best-loved tragedies, drawing out the contemporary relevance of this passionate teenage love story. Ellie Kendrick, a truly youthful Juliet, and... |
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Shakespeare: As You Like It (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in October 2009) BLU-RAY Globe Theatre / Brendan Hughes / Naomi Frederick / Laura Rogers / Philip Bird / Jamie Parker / Jack Laskey [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "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 |
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Shakespeare: Hamlet (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, 2018) Globe / Catrin Aaron, James Garnon, Colin Hurley, Michelle Terry / Federay Holmes, Elle While (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Encompassing political intrigue and sexual obsession, philosophical reflection and violent action, tragic depth and wild humour, Hamlet is a colossus in the story of the English language and the fullest expression of Shakespeare's genius. |
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Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, 2014) Globe / Clive Wood, Eve Best, Jolyon Coy, Phil Daniels / Jonathan Munby (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Antony and Cleopatra is Shakespeare's great historical love story, a tragedy infused with comic elements that explores the conflicting claims of sex and power, expressed in poetry of breath-taking beauty. Conveying the polarities of Rome and... |
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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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Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Recorded live at the Shakespeare's Globe, July 2014) Globe / George Irving, Catherine Bailey, Sam Cox, Anthony Howell / Dominic Dromgoole (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Julius Caesar is Shakespeare's tense drama of high politics, one which reveals the emotional currents that flow between men in power, with themes that still resonate even today. Staged in Elizabethan dress with Roman accessories and with music played... |
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Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, May 2015) Globe / Jonathan Pryce, Rachel Pickup, Daniel Lapaine, Dominic Mafham, Phoebe Pryce [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] In some of his most highly-charged scenes, Shakespeare dramatises the competing claims of tolerance and intolerance, religious law and civil society, justice and mercy; while in the character of Shylock he created one of the most memorable outsiders |
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Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, 2016) Globe / Meow Meow, Zubin Varla, Ewan Wardrop, Lucy Thackeray / Emma Rice (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Dec/2018 ] My! The woods outside Athens are a busy place on this magical night! Four runaway lovers find themselves smack bang in the middle of a dispute between the King and Queen of the fairies, and, if that wasn't enough, a troupe of amateur actors are... |
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Shakespeare: The Tempest (recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, August 2013) Globe / Roger Allam, Jason Baughan, Jessie Buckley, Sam Cox / Jeremy Herrin (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] 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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Shakespeare: Henry V (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in June, 2012) Globe Theatre / Brendan O'Hea, Jamie Parker, Paul Rider, David Hargreaves, Giles Cooper [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] Capped by one of the most famous speeches ever written, King Henry V recalls the momentous English victory at Agincourt. With comic sub-plots to be found among Henry's soldiers, the production boasts some terrific performances - including Sam Cox. |
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Shakespeare: Comedy, Romance, Tragedy (As You Like It / Love's Labour's Lost / Romeo & Juliet) BLU-RAY Globe Theatre / Brendon Hughes, Jack Laskey, Trevor Martin, Philip Cumbus, Trystan Gravelle, William Mannering, etc [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / 3 Blu-ray Box Set - released 25/Nov/2015 ] Shakespeare's Globe productions of As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost and Romeo & Juliet are offered in this exclusive limited edition Blu-ray box set. |
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Shakespeare: Richard II (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in 2015) Globe Theatre / Charles Edwards, Henry Everett, William Gaunt, Jonny Glynn , David Sturzaker [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] Ruling by divine right, but himself ruled by caprice, King Richard exiles Henry Bolingbroke and seizes his father's vast states. While Richard is distracted by a rebellion in Ireland, Bolingbroke returns to England, intent on recovering... |
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Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor (recorded live at the Globe Theatre London in 2012) Globe Theatre / Christopher Benjamin, Serena Evans, Sarah Woodward, Nathan Amzi [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] The only one of Shakespeare's plays to be set within his own class and country, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a farcical tale centring on the wily attempts of Sir John Falstaff to relieve his drinking debts through swindling and seduction. |