Your Guide To The Best Shakespeare DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: 2003-04-15
Running Time: 120 minutes

Imagine a work by Shakespeare reduced to one of those pretty, glossy coffee-table picture books that have only a dollop of text alongside its sumptuous photographs, and you might have Michael Hoffman's adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This all-star version of Shakespeare's comedy is gorgeously shot in Tuscany, complete with a magical forest, breathtaking landscapes, beautiful villas... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Richard III - Criterion Collection

Starring: Wally Bascoe
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 2004-02-24
Running Time: 158 minutes

The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III (1954) is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. As the personification of evil impudence, Olivier portrays the Duke of Gloucester with such aplomb that he brings the audience onto his side. This is true even as Richard engineers plots to murder his brother Clarence (John Gielgud... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Shakespeare Wallah - The Merchant Ivory Collection

Starring: Felicity Kendal
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Merchant Ivory
Release Date: 2004-04-27
Running Time: 122 minutes

Elegiac and atmospheric, Shakespeare Wallah was the feature film that put Merchant Ivory Productions on the international movie map, winning them great critical acclaim, and is now recognized as a classic. Starring Shashi Kapoor, Madhur Jaffrey, and a young Felicity Kendal, the film’s inspiration lies in the real-life adventures of Ms. Kendal’s family as a traveling theater group in Ind... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Richard Burton's Hamlet

Starring: Richard Burton
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Created By: Hume Cronyn
Studio: Image Entertainment
Release Date: 1999-08-17
Running Time: 191 minutes

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William Shakespeare's: Othello

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Arthaus Musik
Release Date: 2005-09-20
Running Time: 188 minutes

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Emma / Shakespeare in Love

Starring: Shakespeare in Love
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Miramax
Release Date: 2007-09-11
Running Time: 243 minutes

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Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection

Starring: Isuzu Yamada
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 2003-05-27
Running Time: 109 minutes

One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare into film, Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood re-imagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells of a valiant warrior’s savage rise to power and his ignominious fall. With Throne of Blood, Kurosawa fuses... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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O (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Starring: Josh Hartnett
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Release Date: 2002-02-19
Running Time: 94 minutes

When you compare O to William Shakespeare's Othello, you'll realize just how well this modern adaptation really works. Shakespeare's tragedy transfers nicely to the film's contemporary private school setting, where Othello is now Odin (Mekhi Phifer), star of the basketball team and the school's only African American student. Desdemona is Desi (Julia Stiles), the dean's daughter and O... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Macbeth

Starring: Francesca Annis
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 2002-05-07
Running Time: 140 minutes

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William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Starring: Jeremy Irons
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 2005-05-10
Running Time: 131 minutes

Rarely has The Merchant of Venice, one of Shakespeare's most complex plays, looked as ravishingly sumptuous as in this adaptation, directed by Michael Radford (Il Postino). In a decadent version of renaissance Venice, a young nobleman named Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare in Love) seeks to woo the lovely Portia (newcomer Lynn Collins), but lacks the money to travel to he... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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