William Shakespeare

Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy....

By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar....

Shakespeare’s timeless story of revenge, corruption, and murder is considered one of the greatest works in the English language....

The multi-award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options....

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord siezes the throne with the help of his scheming wife - and a trio of witches....

Telling his followers he is leaving the city on affairs of state, the Duke of Vienna appoints the puritanical Angelo to govern in his absence....

Brilliantly manipulative and entirely amoral, the hero-villain Richard is one of Shakespeare's greatest roles....

Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like "the darling buds of May," or "remembrance of things past," or "the marriage of true minds"....

Here is a full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play....

Henry V is a study of kingship, patriotism, and heroic determination tempered by tender comedy as Henry courts Katherine, princess of France....

Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays....

Shakespeare's drama tells the story of a young man who can only come into his own upon his father's death and the father who longs for immortality....

The tragedy of King Lear receives an outstanding performance in an all-star cast led by Britain’s senior classical actor, Paul Scofield....

Experience Macbeth as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds....

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least 30 years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays....

Sinister supernatural forces are at work in this fast-paced tragedy of guilt and retribution, in which the power of human beings to control their own destiny is called into question....

This shattering drama of isolation and loss is one of the greatest tragedies in world literature....

This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever....

This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech...

Experience Twelfth Night as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds....