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An all-star cast including John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Anthony Quayle, and Peggy Ashcroft come together to read all 154 Sonnets.

Here is Shakespeare's 1599 tragedy, performed by The Marlowe Society. Julius Caesar portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator, his assassination, and its aftermath.

A collection of favourite scenes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, plus five sonnets, performed by John Gielgud.

This full-cast dramatization is performed by The Marlowe Society.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, seeks revenge for his father's murder. Sir John Gielgud and the Old Vic Company perform perhaps the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies.

Taken from Tales from Shakespeare and narrated by Bart Wolffe. The story dramatizes the corroding psychological and political effects produced when its protagonist, the Scottish Lord Macbeth, chooses evil as the way to fulfill his ambition for power.

King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events that lead to death, a ferocious bear, an infant left in the snow, young love, and a statue coming to life. Sir John Gielgud and Dame Peggy Ashcroft lead a cast recording of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

The re-written Shakespeare tale of Twelfth Night by Charles and Mary Lamb.

One of Shakespeare's late romances, The Tempest centres on the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who initially uses his magical powers to punish his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore. The entire play takes place on an island under his control, where the native inhabitants, Ariel and Caliban, respectively aid or hinder his work.

Sir John Gielgud, Sir Michael Hordern, Leo McKern, and Edward Hardwicke star in this unabridged performance of Shakespeare's Richard II.

The second part of the award winning stage perfomance of Shakespeare's greatest work by Sir John Gielgud.

Baptista, a rich Paduan merchant, announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca, will remain unwed until her older sister, Katharina, a hellish shrew, has wed. An unabridged cast performance of Shakespeare's comedy about the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew.

A Classic recording of Shakespeare's well-loved comedy. Cast including renowned Shakespearean actors John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Gary Watson.

An excellent recording of one of Shakespeare's best loved tragedies. Many consider Cleopatra to be Shakespeare's most complex female role. The play follows Cleopatra's relationship with Mark Antony from the Sicilian Revolt to Cleopatra's suicide in the Final War of the Roman Republic.

A collection of favourite scenes from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Here is a wonderful combination of the Old Vic Company performing Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream accompanied by music performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Malcolm Sargent.

Troilus and Cressida is set during the latter years of the Trojan War, faithfully following the plotline of the Iliad from Achilles' refusal to participate in battle to Hector's death. This full-cast dramatization is performed by The Marlowe Society.

Paul Scofield, Siobhan McKenna and John Neville perform Twelfth Night. This is Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores - only to be pursued by the woman he loves.

Richard Burton reads Shakespeare's narrative poem about the legendary Lucretia (or 'Lucrece'). The poem tells the story of the Roman leader Tarquin's rape of Lucrece and her subsequent suicide.

Sir Ian McKellen, Corin Redgrave, and Derek Jacobi perform Shakespeare's historic play about Prince Hal's journey toward kingship, and his ultimate rejection of Falstaff.