The Shakespeare Collection - 4-DVD Box Set ( Twelfth Night / Macbeth / Romeo & Juliet / King Lear ) ( Twelfth Night or What You Will / A Performance of Macbeth / Romeo and Juliet / King Lear )

The Shakespeare Collection - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Twelfth Night / Macbeth / Romeo & Juliet / King Lear
Alternate Title: Twelfth Night or What You Will / A Performance of Macbeth / Romeo and Juliet / King Lear
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
600 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1974 - 1988 and produced in:
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Paul Kafno
Philip Casson
Joan Kemp-Welch
Tony Davenall

Written By:
William Shakespeare
Trevor Nunn

Actors:
Frances Barber ..... Viola / Cesario
Christopher Hollis ..... Sebastian / Curio
Julian Gartside ..... Valentine
Tim Barker ..... Antonio / Sea Captain
Richard Briers ..... Malvolio
Caroline Langrishe ..... Olivia
Anton Lesser ..... Feste
Abigail McKern ..... Maria
Shaun Prendergast ..... Fabian
Christopher Ravenscroft ..... Orsino
James Saxon ..... Sir Toby Belch
James Simmons ..... Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Ian McKellen ..... Macbeth
Judi Dench ..... Lady Macbeth
John Bown ..... Lennox
Susan Dury ..... 3rd Witch
Lady Macduff ..... 2nd Witch
Judith Harte ..... Donalbain
Gentlewoman ..... Sergeant
Greg Hicks ..... Duncan
Seyton ..... 1st Witch
David Howey ..... The Porter
1st Murderer ..... Macduff
Doctor ..... Angus
Griffith Jones ..... Malcolm
Marie Kean ..... Fleance
Ian McDiarmid ..... Young Macduff
Ross
Bob Peck
Duncan Preston
Roger Rees
Zak Taylor
Messenger
Stephen Warner
Christopher Neame ..... Romeo
Ann Hasson ..... Juliet
Laurence Payne ..... Capulet
Mary Kenton ..... Lady Capulet
Peter Dyneley ..... Escalus, Prince of Verona
Simon MacCorkindale ..... Paris
Arthur Hewlett ..... Friar John
Clive Swift ..... Friar Lawrence
Roger Tallon ..... Abraham
Michael Macowan ..... Montague
Mark Rogers ..... Page to Paris
Martin Read ..... Officer of the Guard
Trevor St. John Hacker ..... Soldier of the Guard
Stephen Churchett ..... Soldier of the Guard
Robin Halstead ..... Balthasar
Patrick Mower ..... Edmund (6 episodes, 1974)
Ann Lynn ..... Regan (6 episodes, 1974)
Philip Brack ..... Albany (6 episodes, 1974)
Beth Harris ..... Goneril (6 episodes, 1974)
Patrick Magee ..... King Lear (6 episodes, 1974)
Wendy Allnutt ..... Cordelia (6 episodes, 1974)
Robert Coleby ..... Edgar (6 episodes, 1974)
Ronald Radd ..... Gloucester (6 episodes, 1974)
Ray Smith ..... Kent (6 episodes, 1974)
Peter Jeffrey ..... Cornwall (6 episodes, 1974)
Ellis Jones ..... The Fool (6 episodes, 1974)
Roger Rowland ..... 1st Servant / ... (6 episodes, 1974)

Synopsis:

Twelfth Night (1988)
Part of the Thames Shakespeare Collection, this production of Twelfth Night was adapted for television by renowned actor and director Kenneth Branagh in 1988. Performed by the Renaissance Theatre Company, this classic comic tale of romance and confused identities features performances by acclaimed actors Caroline Langrishe and Richard Briers.

Macbeth (1979)
Shakespeare's classic tragedy of ambition, witches and murder.

Romeo & Juliet (1976)
Joan Kemp-Welch's version of Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet follows the original storyline faithfully. The star crossed lovers meet at a masquerade ball, fall in love, and learn that their feuding families will never allow them to live their lives together. Eventually, through a series of misunderstandings and lies, the pair plays out their tragic fate.

King Lear (1974)
When King Lear decides to step down from his throne, he decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters with tragic results.

Twelfth Night (1988)
The entire play is performed outdoors, in a snow-shrouded landscape appropriate to both the setting of the play and to the chilliness of the overall mood. This is established from the start with Orsino's strikingly desolate rendition of the famous "if music be the food of love" soliloquy. Though the expected laughs are still there, many of the characters have a hunted look about them, as though constantly aware that they are living a lie, either literally or emotionally. This is particularly true of Frances Barber's Viola, Caroline Langrishe's Olivia (when the latter declares love for the former, it's impossible to miss the pain etched across both their faces) and above all Anton Lesser's Feste.

Macbeth (1979)
Macbeth is a 1978 TV film of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, produced by Thames Television and starring Ian McKellen as Macbeth, and Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth. It was directed by Philip Casson, and is an adaptation by Trevor Nunn of Nunn's own Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play.

Romeo & Juliet (1976)
The families of Montague and Capulet are long-sworn enemies, which does not bode well for the love affair between Romeo (Christopher Neame) and Juliet (Ann Hasson), each of whom hails from a rival house. The two continue to see each other in secret, but when the feud which surrounds them erupts into bloodshed, the couple's love seems doomed to end in tragedy.

King Lear (1974)
Aging King Lear decides to surrender his throne to his three daughters and solicits comments from them about their devotion and love to him. Goneril and Regan, the elder married daughters, flatter their father with profusely exaggerated declarations of filial devotion, but Goneril, his unmarried youngest, refuses to try to outdo her sisters in insincerity and declares her loyalty to her father in more subdued terms. The egocentric king disinherits her it a fit of pique and banishes her, as well as Kent, one of his most loyal ministers, who had the temerity to criticize the king's actions. The aging Lear is not happy in retirement as first one and then both of his daughters turn their backs on their now powerless father. Cordelia, now married to the King of France, remains loyal to her father despite his treatment of her and invades England with the French army in hopes of restoring her father to the throne. In the meantime, the Duke of Gloucester's illegitimate son Edmund plots to have his half-brother Edgar, his father's legitimate heir, discredited, so that he inherits his father's estates. The unscrupulous Edmund's avarice drives him to seduce both Goneril and Regan in his ambitious quest for power.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 18 July, 2013.