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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE : His life and works

SOURCE: ClickView (2017) Rated E [Duration 13:00 mins] Resources available.

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hakespeare's Works

Shakespeare wrote at least 38 plays and over 150 short and long poems, many of which are considered to be the finest ever written in English. His works have been translated into every major living language, and nearly 400 years after his death, they continue to be performed around the world.

SOURCE: Folger Shakespeare Library website (2017))

Select the link above, or any of the titles below , to access copies of these works.

Comedies

Histories

Tragedies

Romances

Poems
All's Well That Ends Well Henry IV, Part 1 Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline Lucrece
As You Like It Henry IV, Part 2 Coriolanus Pericles The Phoenix and Turtle
The Comedy of Errors Henry V Hamlet The Tempest Sonnets
Love's Labor's Lost Henry VI, Part 1 Julius Caesar The Winter's Tale Venus and Adonis
Measure for Measure Henry VI, Part 2 King Lear    
The Merchant of Venice Henry VI, Part 3 Macbeth    
The Merry Wives of Windsor Henry VIII Othello    
A Midsummer Night's Dream King John Romeo and Juliet    
Much Ado About Nothing Richard II Timon of Athens    
The Taming of the Shrew Richard III Titus Andronicus    
Twelfth Night   Troilus and Cressida    
The Two Gentlemen of Verona        
The Two Noble Kinsmen        

Movie Adaptations available from ClickView

Tragedies Comedies

Hamlet (2010)[Branagh] | Hamlet (1948) [Olivier] 

The Tragedy of Hamlet (2001)[Brook]

 Much Ado about Nothing (1993)[Branagh]

The Tempest

 As you like It LIVE (2010) [Sharrock] | Animated 
Macbeth (1948)[Welles] | Macbeth [Royal Shakespeare] A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005)
Richard III (1959) [Olivier]  
Romeo & Juliet (1968) [Zeffirelli]

Also available (Rated M): Macbeth [Polanski]; 

Othello (1995) [Parker]; The Hollow Crown (2016);

As You Like It (2007) [Branagh]; Romeo & Juliet [Lurhmann];