Shakespeare Lives highlight clips
The best of the action, including Shakespeare Day Live.
Shakespeare's Globe The Complete Walk: All's Well That Ends Well
Filmed on location at the Chateau de Lourmarin starring Lindsay Duncan and Ruth Wilson.
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Shakespeare Sex-List Song
Michael Nyman's A to Z of saucy Shakespeare in song.
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A Beyonce-infused Midsummer Night's Dream
Bollywood Beyonce finds its way into Shakespeare's Globe's Dream Live
The Magic Behind Derek Jarman's 1979 Film of The Tempest
Discover how Derek Jarman expressed his unique vision of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Shakespeare's Globe The Complete Walk: The Winter's Tale
Filmed on location at Apothecaries Hall in London starring Mariah Gale.
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The longest death scene in Shakespeare (in just over a minute!)
Bottom milks his part as Pyramus in Shakespeare's Globe's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare's Globe The Complete Walk: Much Ado About Nothing
Filmed at the Villa Ida, Messina in Sicily, starring Katherine Parkinson and Samuel West.
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Shakespeare's Globe The Complete Walk: The Taming of the Shrew
Filmed at Villa Businello-Morassutti, Padua, Italy starring Eve Best and John Light.
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"To Be or Not To Be" in 60 seconds!?
Hold your breath here goes! Fool's Paradise Theatre from Baltimore at Edinburgh Fringe.
Audience interaction from Puck and her banana
Live from Shakespeare's Globe theatre - Puck has some fun in the audience
The final dance from the cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream
From the live production filmed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream from Shakespeare's Globe - watch the trailer
The full production is streamed live on 11th September on the Shakespeare Lives website
King Lear: Cordelia returns—King Lear: Part Two
Watch a clip from Act 4, Sc. 7 with Don Warrington as Lear and Pepter Lunkuse as Cordelia
"When shall we see feet again?"
Lindsay Chapman and Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets on her Edinburgh Fringe #Macbethathon
Queen Lear: The Archers meets Shakespeare
Peggy Woolley as you've never heard her before!
Early appearances: Helen Mirren - As You Like It (BBC, 1978)
Helen Mirren as Rosalind in the BBC Television Shakespeare production
The Macbeths get a (damned) spot of advice from Dr Bard
Shakespeare Syndrome at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Playing Witch, Dagger, Cauldron
Rock, Paper, Scissors is so sixteenth century.
Early appearances: Patrick Stewart as Claudius - Hamlet (BBC, 1980)
From the BBC Television Shakespeare series
Early appearances: Ian McKellen as Richard II (BBC, 1971)
Ian McKellen as the tragic King Richard in the 1971 BBC production
Early appearances: Dame Judi Dench - Henry V (1960)
From the BBCTV series The Band of Brothers, episode 8 of 15
Early Appearances: Alan Rickman as Tybalt - Romeo and Juliet (BBC, 1978)
From the BBC Television Shakespeare series
Early appearances: Christopher Plummer and Michael Caine - Hamlet at Elsinore
From the BBC/ Danish Radio co-production, 1964
Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet ballet: Death Scene
Romeo (Carlos Acosta) and Juliet (Tamara Rojo)
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