Shakespeare - Tragedies (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre)

Adetomiwa Edun (Romeo (Romeo & Juliet)); Ellie Kendrick (Juliet (Romeo & Juliet)); Paul Hilton (Faustus (Doctor Faustus)); Arthur Darvill (Mephistopheles (Doctor Faustus)); Joseph Millson (Macbeth (Macbeth)); Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)); George Irving (Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar)); William Houston (Titus Andronicus (Titus Anronicus)); Clive Wood (Antony (Antony and Cleopatra)); Eve Best (Cleopatra (Antony and Cleopatra));

This collection brings together Globe Theatre productions dating from 2009 to 2014 - during the artistic directorship of Dominic Dromgoole - of five of Shakespeare's most admired Tragedies along with Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Born the same year as Shakespeare, Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day and before his untimely death was a great influence on the Bard.

Featuring the finest actors and leading directors, this set is part of a project committed to creating ever wider access to this rich cultural heritage. These films capture the unique atmosphere and theatrical space of the Globe Theatre. The exhilarating sense of interaction between he actors on stage and the audience in live performances is exquisitely maintained on screen.

This box set contains - Titus Andonicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Doctor Faustus (Marlowe)

Reviews

"Shakespeare rarely feels so speedily urgent ... Exceptional" (The Independant - Titus Andronicus)

""Is this well done?" a character asks at the end of Shakespeare's tragedy. I'd say that Jonathan Munby's production is, on the whole, extremely well done. It captures the play's cinematic rhythm as one scene dissolves into the next, and also its dreamlike quality ..." (The Guardian - Antony and Cleopatra)

"A triumph of spine-tingling spectacle. Director Matthew Dunster conjures in a way that would delight the Prince of" (The Spectator - Doctor Faustus)

"Eve Best's directorial debut is a cracking – at times, terrifying – production of Macbeth." (The Daily Telegraph - Macbeth)