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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0739815002427
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Ambrose Video
Manufacturer: Ambrose Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Ambrose Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 22, 2002
Running Time: 906 minutes
Sales Rank: 10787
Studio: Ambrose Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 10, 1980
Editorial Review:
Description:
Shakespeare is rightly considered the world's greatest playwright for the soaring beauty of his language, for his profound insight into human nature, for the truths he dramatized and for the realism of the characters he created. He was, and remains, a superb entertainer.
These BBC and Time-Life film productions feature some of Britain's most distinguished theatrical talent (Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Patrick Stewart, Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom and more), these DVD's now are the number-one choice for continuing personal enjoyment.
This special Drama DVD Giftbox Set contains 5 of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies: *Romeo and Juliet
*Hamlet
*Macbeth
*Julius Caesar
*Othello.
The Plays contain sub-titles in English that can be turned on or off.
TV Guide Raves: 'Shakespeare Would Be Amused.by the care, money, time and talent that are being lavished on the mammoth task of producing all 37 of his plays.'
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Some plays much better than others....
The BBC did something really ambitious here. to produce all of Shakespeare's plays with some of the leading British actors of the time was no easy undertaking. But...this portion of the collection did not come out as good as it might have. Still, there are good plays in it with many fine performances. Hamlet, Julius Ceasare, and Romeo and Juliet were more or less up the standards one would hold for these actors and the BBC in general. Derek Jacobi gives a wonderful performance as Hamlet. His range ... Read More
Rating:  - FANTASTIC
Jacoby is unforgettable in this one! A distinctive treatment
of H's passion and energy. One of the very top performances.
We need this available in a single DVD!
Rating: - OVERPRICED
To anyone who is thinking of buying more than one of these overpriced sets, consider purchasing a region-free dvd player and heading over to amazon.co.uk. Their set of all 37 plays is 100 pounds (about 200 bucks). Cyberhome sells a region-free player for around 50 dollars...do the math.
Rating: - Othello wasn't a mellow fellow
William Shakespeare's tragedy of love, twisted love and deceit and treachery has been presented many times and from many angles. Thus the real task of a reviewer is to decide whether the presentation holds up to the bard's intention. This BBC production overall does so but with a couple of complains from this quarter. Anthony Hopkins plays Othello here. His reading of the role is to make Othello something of a frantic and hysterical lover and husband. These qualities make it hard to believe that, given ... Read More
Rating: - not religion but getting close,real close(maybe?)(might be?)
these are the best Shakespeare plays made and word for word in entirety.No digests or snippets where the Producer decides what is an important scene from an unimportant(because every scene is important).No forty year old Romeos or thirtyish"spinster" Juliets here.Juliet is 14(or 13?) and looks the part in these Shakespeare plays.The innocence of youth,the music it's all kept in mind to enhance your Shakespearian experience.After I saw the Romeo and Juliet in this set I was hooked and spoiled,other portrayals ... Read More
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