Shakespeare Tragedies (Volume 2) - 5-DVD Box Set ( Timon of Athens / King Lear / Antony & Cleopatra / Macbeth )

Shakespeare Tragedies (Volume 2) - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Timon of Athens / King Lear / Antony & Cleopatra / Macbeth
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
775 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1981-1983 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Jonathan Miller
Jack Gold

Written By:
William Shakespeare

Actors:
John Fortune ..... Poet
John Bird ..... Painter
Tony Jay ..... Merchant
David Kinsey ..... Jeweller
Jonathan Pryce ..... Timon
John Welsh ..... Flavius
Sebastian Shaw ..... Old Athenian
Max Arthur ..... Lucilius
Norman Rodway ..... Apemantus
Geoffrey Collins ..... Flaminius
Terence McGinity ..... Servilius
John Shrapnel ..... Alcibiades
Hugh Thomas ..... Lucius
James Cossins ..... Lucullus
Donald Gee ..... Ventidius
John Bailey ..... Sempronius
Karen Johnson ..... Amazon
Heloise Lombardi ..... Amazon
John Shrapnel ..... Earl of Kent
Norman Rodway ..... Earl of Gloucester
Michael Kitchen ..... Edmund
Michael Hordern ..... King Lear
Gillian Barge ..... Goneril
Brenda Blethyn ..... Cordelia
Penelope Wilton ..... Regan
John Bird ..... Duke of Albany
Julian Curry ..... Duke of Cornwall
David Weston ..... Duke of Burgundy
Harry Waters ..... King of France
Anton Lesser ..... Edgar
John Grillo ..... Oswald
Iain Armstrong ..... First Gentleman
Frank Middlemass ..... Fool
Ken Stott ..... Curan
Stuart Blake ..... First Servant
Tony Sympson ..... Second Servant
John Paul ..... Canidius
Jonathan Adams ..... Ventidius
Jane Lapotaire ..... Cleopatra
Colin Blakely ..... Antony
Darien Angadi ..... Alexas
Janet Key ..... Charmian
Howard Goorney ..... Soothsayer
Cassie McFarlane ..... Iras
Emrys James ..... Enobarbus
Brenda Bruce ..... First Witch
Eileen Way ..... Second Witch
Anne Dyson ..... Third Witch
Mark Dignam ..... Duncan
James Hazeldine ..... Malcolm
Christopher Ellison ..... Captain
John Rowe ..... Lennox
Gawn Grainger ..... Ross
Nicol Williamson ..... Macbeth
Ian Hogg ..... Banquo
David Lyon ..... Angus
Jane Lapotaire ..... Lady Macbeth
Gordon Kane ..... First Messenger
Alistair Henderson ..... Fleance
James Bolam ..... Porter
Tony Doyle ..... Macduff
Tom Bowles ..... Donalbain
Will Leighton ..... Old Man

Synopsis:

Timon of Athens: Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit. King Lear: King Lear (Sir Michael Hordern), old and tired, divides his kingdom amongst his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia (Brenda Blethyn), youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril (Gillian Barge) and Regan (Dame Penelope Wilton) have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, King Lear's loyal courtier the Earl of Gloucester (Norman Rodway) favors his illegitimate son Edmund (Michael Kitchen) after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar (Anton Lesser). Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers. Antony & Cleopatra: After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor, Octavius. Macbeth: Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 13 July, 2023.