Ofélia ocupa o centro do palco como aia de confiança da Rainha Gertrude. Bela e inteligente, depressa atrai as atenções do garboso príncipe Hamlet e um amor proibido floresce. À medida que as movimentações de guerra começam a surgir, o desejo e a traição começam a minar o Castelo Elsinore e Ofélia tem de decidir entre o verdadeiro amor e a sua própria vida para proteger um segredo muito perigoso.
A duquesa de Milão, Próspera, é acusada de bruxaria e afastada do poder pelo seu irmão, António, com a ajuda do Rei de Nápoles, Alonso, que subjuga o ducado. A duquesa é forçada, assim, a partir para o exílio com a sua filha Miranda, sob ameaça de morte. Quis o destino que ambas acabassem numa ilha deserta, onde vive apenas uma criatura brutal, Caliban. Mas, doze anos depois, a sorte de Próspera vai mudar quando o destino traz às costas da sua ilha um navio onde viajam todos aqueles que a prejudicaram.
Macbeth (Michael Fassbender) é um general do exército escocês que trai o seu rei após ouvir um presságio de três bruxas que dizem que ele será o novo monarca. Ele é altamente influenciado pela esposa Lady Macbeth (Marion Cotillard), uma figura manipuladora que sofre por não lhe poder dar filhos.
Após profecia de bruxas - que dizem que ele seria rei -, Macbeth mata o soberano e assume o trono. Só que, em seu reinado de sangue, ele jamais alcança a paz: sua esposa, tomada pela culpa, começa a enlouquecer; ao mesmo tempo, os inimigos conspiram para retomar o poder.
Baseado na obra literária de William Shakespeare, somos apresentados a Macbeth (Orson Welles), um homem simples designado por feiticeiras a se tornar rei. Conquistando as batalhas com muita violência e sangue, sua mente vai ficando cada vez mais conturbada, o que viria a ser sua ruína.
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser Norman must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time and if he does will he be able to perform that night? The Dresser is a wickedly funny and deeply moving story of friendship and loyalty as Sir reflects on his lifelong accomplishments and seeks to reconcile his turbulent friendships with those in his employ before the final curtain.
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.
Renowned Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart features as the eponymous anti-hero in this Soviet-era adaptation of one of Shakespeare's darkest and most powerful tragedies.
Se você tivesse uma poção do amor, quem você faria se apaixonar loucamente por você? Timothy, propenso a escapar de sua sombria realidade do ensino médio através de deslumbrantes devaneios musicais, consegue responder a essa pergunta de uma maneira muito real. Depois que seu professor excêntrico o lança como Puck em Sonho de uma noite de verão, ele se depara com uma receita escondida no script para criar a mágica e pansy roxa da peça.
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
The extended version of the Romeo & Juliet play performance as seen in Kamen Rider Gotchard's 31st episode, and presented like it was shot in-universe.
Blood will have blood. Unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murderous desires reign supreme in Shakespeare’s most poetic examination of evil. When three witches tell Macbeth that he will become King of Scotland, he plots with his wife to attain the title through an assassination; a bloody act that gives him his crown and sends him careening down the path of his own undoing.
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself as a man and enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds she likes the new messenger. When Sebastian reappears, with Viola now his exact double, merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
San Francisco's prize-winning American Conservatory Theater's rowdy commedia dell'arte production incorporates slapstick, pratfall and earthy humor into William Shakespeare's comedy about the two unmarried daughters of a wealthy Italian merchant. While daughter Bianca is genteel and popular, daughter Kate is foul-tempered and strong-willed. No one dares to marry Kate, until Petruchio arrives in Padua and tries his hand at courtship.
In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.
The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into their own desires. Offscreen, Dame Judi Dench recites a sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets that counterpoint the action. Jarman called it, “My most austere work, but also the closest to my heart.”
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller! Transcending the confines of the stage, the film utilises nearly every room of the Theatre Royal Windsor to transform it into the immortal Elsinore Castle, from basement dungeon to roof-top battlement.
The ultimate royal family crisis. Prince Hamlet's father is dead, poisoned by his uncle, who has usurped the throne and married his mother, the Queen. When the dead King's ghost appears, commanding his son to revenge his foul and most unnatural murder, Hamlet is set on a course of action that can only end in the destruction of a dynasty and his own extinction.