Merry Wives of Windsor This hilarious play is surprisingly hard to find but can be rented from The Globe online. Merchant of Venice Al Pacino’s 2004 version is currently streaming on HBO Go. Amazon Prime/Broadway HD has this rare one streaming. Macbeth Michael Fassbender’s 2015 version is streaming on Amazon Prime. Love’s Labour’s Lost The excellent musical version of this one with Kenneth Branagh, Matthew Lillard, and Alicia Silverstone is available to rent on YouTube. King Lear Amazon remains on top of it with a 2018 version with Anthony Hopkins on Prime. King John You guessed it, BroadwayHD/Amazon Prime Video. Julius Caesar Also available on Broadway HD/Amazon Prime Video. Henry VIII Available on BroadwayHD/Amazon Prime Video. These were consolidated as “season 2” of The Hollow Crown. Henry VI, Part I, Henry VI, Part II, Henry VI, Part III / Richard III.
These four plays were combined into one single, great adaptation by the BBC in 2012 called The Hollow Crown which can be found on Amazon. Henry IV, Part I / Henry IV, Part II / Henry V / Richard II. Hamlet There’s a lot of the sad danish Princes out there, with several versions available on Amazon Prime Video. Many of these are harder to find and do require a few dollars for a rental.įollow the hyperlinks in the titles to read the plays over on OpensourseShakespear.Org.Īll’s Well That Ends Well Available on YouTube from the Royal Shakespeare company, free,Īntony and Cleopatra The recent broadcast is available to rent on YouTube.Īs You Like It The 2007 adaptation by Kenneth Branagh starring Bryce Dallas Howard is currently on Hulu.Ĭomedy of Errors Available on Amazon Prime and from Shakespeare’s Globe to rent on YouTube.Ĭoriolanus The latest adaptation with Ralph Fiennes for free on YouTube (with ads).Ĭymbeline A 1982 production with Helen Mirren is available on Broadway HD and Amazon Prime. But we’re looking for the complete canon here, so we’re going to break this down alphabetically by play and pick some of our favorites.
They’re all over the place and it’s often not a question of if you can find them, but which one to watch, and believe me, we’ll get into the relative merits of different versions soo enough. Now, there are some plays that have been adapted a lot and are very easy to find: Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet. But fret not, gentle friends, this is your source to find out where and how to watch (or read) every work of Shakespeare without leaving your home. You may be thinking that you have to drop a lot of money to enjoy this sort of high culture, or even worse, leave the house. We can’t kick off Shakespeare month without giving you a resource to enjoy all the Shakespeare your little hearts can handle.
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