#Shakespeare400 DVD collection
“Tempt not a desperate man”
There’s a wealth of Shakespearean content available on film and this is just a mere scratching of the surface that takes in:
Five Kenneth Branaghs –
Henry V
, Hamlet,
Much Ado About Nothing
,
Love’s Labour’s Lost
and
As You Like It
, as well as the
Othello
in which he starred but did not direct;
Four takes on
Romeo and Juliet –
gay soldiers
,
animated gnomes
,
Baz Luhrmann
and
Orlando Bloom on a motorbike...
Three
Macbeths
–
are you Sher
,
look at my Fassbender
and
Dench and McKellen’s masterclass
Two more McKellens in
Othello
and
Richard III
And a
Coriolanus
A Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Maxine Peake’s superb
Hamlet
Plus Brucie bonuses in
the real-life backstage film of The Bridge Project
and a fictional backstage film called
A Midwinter’s Tale
.
Happy reading!
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