 | William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.66 / Used from: $7.93 Sumptuous production, including virtually every word of this, Shakespeare's best, play.
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 | Hamlet
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.13 Modern setting with very interesting ideas.
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 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.99 Tom Stoppard's hilarious "worm's eye" view of the Hamlet story a la Waiting for Godot.
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 | Chimes At Midnight
Incorporating scenes from both Henry IV and Merry Wives of Windsor, with Welles as Falstaff and Sir John Gielgud as Henry IV.
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 | My Own Private Idaho - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $17.00 Scenes from Henry IV make an unexpected appearance in this offbeat but great film by Gus Van Sant, starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves.
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 | Henry V
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.60 Branagh's first and best, with Derek Jacobi, Emma Thompson and Brian Blessed.
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 | Julius Caesar
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.00 Marlon Brando, James Mason and Sir John Gielgud in a memorable Hollywood production.
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![King Lear [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QJCKDA49L._SL75_.jpg) | King Lear [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]
Buy used from: $22.81 Peter Brook directs Paul Scofield. Production values notwithstanding, this is by far the best Lear
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 | Grigori Kozintsev's King Lear
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $19.90 Yuri Yarvet is incredible as Lear in Kozintsev's best (translated into Russian by novelist Boris Pasternak). Epic score by Dmitri Shostakovich.
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 | Macbeth
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $9.00 Visceral direction by Roman Polanski.
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 | Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $17.98 Kurosawa's lyrical Macbeth, his best Shakespeare adaption.
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 | William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.00 Flawed but worthwhile, especially Jeremy Irons as Antonio.
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 | A Midsummer Night's Dream
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.93 Max Reinhardt directs James Cagney, Olivia de Haviland, Mickey Rooney and Joe E. Brown, among many others, in this amazing German Expressionist extravaganza.
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 | Much Ado About Nothing
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.94 Branagh's best of the comedy plays, with Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves and Michael Keaton.
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 | Othello (Fully Restored Version)
Buy used from: $7.84 Visually stunning. If only Welles had Olivier's budget.
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 | Othello
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $10.98 With Branagh as Iago.
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 | Richard III
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.17 McKellen in dystopic WW II setting. Exceptional.
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![Looking for Richard [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5122YQ1QXCL._SL75_.jpg) | Looking for Richard [VHS]
Buy used from: $3.25 Al Pacino riffing on Richard III.
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 | Romeo & Juliet
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.95 Zefferelli directs real teenagers.
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 | West Side Story (Special Edition Collector's Set)
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $6.87 Romeo and Juliet in New York as imagined by Jerome Robbins with unforgettable music by Leonard Bernstein.
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 | Shakespeare in Love (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $2.62 Tom Stoppard co-wrote this playful Oscar winning screenplay about the origins of Romeo and Juliet (and Twelfth Night . . . ). With Dame Judi Dench.
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 | The Taming of the Shrew
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.28 Zefferelli directs Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, fighting and hamming it up.
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 | 10 Things I Hate About You
Buy used from: $3.78 Surprisingly good modern version of Taming of the Shrew.
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 | Prospero's Books
Buy new: $79.99 Sir John Gielgud in Peter Greenaway's version of The Tempest.
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 | Forbidden Planet
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.48 The Tempest meets Star Trek. And it's quite good. Really.
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 | Titus
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $6.25 Julie Taymor directs Anthony Hopkins in what may be the best Shakespeare adaption on film.
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 | Twelfth Night
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $11.02 Trevor Nunn directs Helena Bonham Carter as Olivia and Ben Kinglsey as the fool Feste, as well as Imogen Stubbs as Viola.
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 | Antony and Cleopatra
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $18.26 Production values make this all but unwatchable, but the acting is good.
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 | As You Like It
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.44 Branagh puts the Forest of Arden in Japan with mixed results. Kevin Kline excels as Jacques.
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 | Love's Labour's Lost
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.42 Branagh's 1930s musical version with Alicia Silverstone and Nathan Lane. Love it or hate it.
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