This guide for ENGL 425/525 gives you options for viewing several of William Shakespeare's plays on DVD, through the library's streaming video collections, or from other commercial streaming sites such as Amazon Prime and Netflix. See below for information on accessing the DVDs, and click on the tabs along the top of the guide for links to the streaming versions.
These DVDs are on reserve at the Connection Center in the CLC and may be checked out for one day at a time. Those without call numbers are Dr. O'Leary's personal property, on loan to the library for this semester:
DVD recordings of each of the BBC productions of each of the plays we will read this semester.
Adaptations of A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), dir. Michael Hoffman
Shakespeare Re-Told (2005), dir. Ed Fraiman
Adaptations of Titus Andronicus
Titus (1999), dir. Julie Taymor
Adaptations of Othello
O (2002), dir. Tim Blake Nelson
Otello (2001 DVD; performance from the 1980s?), Giuseppe Verdi opera, dir. Elijah Moshinsky, starring Plácido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa
Stage Beauty (2004), dir. Richard Eyre
Adaptations of Richard III
Richard III (1955), dir. Laurence Olivier
Richard III (1995), dir. Richard Loncraine
Richard III (2016), dir. Dominic Cooke (starring Benedict Cumberbatch)--on reserve as The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses
Adaptations of The Tempest
The Tempest (2010), dir. Julie Taymor
The Tempest (1979), dir. Derek Jarman
The Tempest (1982), dir. Paul Mazursky
King of California (2007), dir. Mike Cahill
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005), dir. Rebecca Miller
Forbidden Planet (1956), dir. Fred M. Wilcox
Shakespeare Behind Bars (2005), dir. Hank Rogerson
