Genre:

Theatre

Release Date:

May 2017

Subititles - En:

All

Subtitles - En, De:

The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All's Well That Ends Well

Subtitles - En, Fr, De:

The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Catalog Number:

OA1250BD

Shakepseare - Comedies Box Set (shakepeare's Globe Theatre)

Naomi Frederick (Rosalind (As You Like It)); Jack Laskey (Orlando (As You Like It)); Stephen Fry (Malvolio (Twelfth Night)); Mark Rylance (Olivia (Twelfth Night)); Jonathan Pryce (Shylock (The Merchant of Venice)); Roger Allam (Prospero (The Tempest)); Charles Edwards (Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing)); Eve Best (Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)); Samantha Spiro (Katherina (The Taming of the Shrew)); Christopher Benjamin (Sir John Falstaff (The Merry Wives of Windsor)); Dominic Rowan (Duke Vincentio (Measure for Measure)); Michelle Terry (Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream));

​This collection brings together Globe Theatre productions dating from 2009 to 2015 - during the artistic directorship of Dominic Dromgoole - of twelve of Shakespeare's most celebrated Comedies. Featuring the finest actors and leading directors, it is part of a project committed to creating ever wider access to this rich cultural heritage.

The films in this set capture the unique atmosphere and theatrical space of the Globe Theatre. The exhilarating sense of interaction between the actors on stage and the audience in live performances is exquisitely maintained on screen.

The hilarious box set contains - The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All's Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure

Reviews

"Dominic Dromgoole's zesty production succeeds in capticating the audience to a degree that I would not have thought possible ... It's a treat." (The Independent - Love's Labour's Lost)

"This is a crowd-pleasing production ... and the laughs come thick and fast" (Evening Standard - The Taming of the Shrew)

"Eve Best and Charles Edwards are gorgeously well-matched and sublimely ridiculous." (Time Out - Much Ado About Nothing)

"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 - As You Like It)