William Shakespeare
99 books
Plays
445
William Shakespeare - Midsummer Night's Dream (version 4)
Even people who claim to hate Shakespearean comedy have to admit that they love A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The original play is already naturally divided into three realms: the mortal world, the faerie realm and the...
3 hours 7 minutes
Comedy
483
William Shakespeare - Taming of the Shrew (version 2)
When local drunkard Christopher Sly walks into a tavern, the last thing he expects is a complex trick where, to the amusement of many others, he is tricked into believing that he's a nobleman! And so begins the Taming...
2 hours 37 minutes
Comedy
478
William Shakespeare - All's Well That Ends Well (version 2)
A fairy tale with real life consequences, All's Well That Ends Well concerns a pooe physician's daughter who goes to Paris to heal the King and asks of him a husband; not himself, but the Count Rousillon, in whose...
3 hours 38 minutes
Comedy
468
William Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice (version 2)
Perhaps the most controversial of Shakespeare's comedies, The Merchant of Venice tells the tale of a man, Bassanio, who has a crazy plan to woo the heiress, Portia, with money borrowed off an old Jewish money lender,...
2 hours 35 minutes
Plays
483
William Shakespeare - Favourite Scenes From Shakespeare
In 2012, the World Shakespeare Festival surveyed Britons as to their favourite plays by Shakespeare. This collection consists of 21 scenes from the most popular plays written by arguably the greatest writer in the...
4 hours 52 minutes
Comedy
495
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing (version 2)
Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics. Much Ado About...
2 hours 32 minutes
Comedy
510
William Shakespeare - Midsummer Night's Dream (version 3)
The play features three interlocking plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland,...
2 hours 16 minutes
Tragedy
433
William Shakespeare - Tragedy of Macbeth (Version 2)
Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corroding psychological and political effects produced when...
2 hours 15 minutes
