Product 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."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17848 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-07-22
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 906 minutes

Peter Nichols, NY Times - August 23, 2002
"It's a fine year for theater on DVD. Now from Ambrose Video. Comes sets of Shakespeare and Beckett."

Customer Reviews

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!

Unbox will not fly until they change the rules
Didn't watch it. If you rent, Unbox rules, which I'm sure they had to accept from clueless Hollywood executives, require you to watch it in 30 days and once you hit play you only have 24 hours to watch it, so no previewing or watching it over a couple of days or more. Obviously, they are ridiculous rules. You can rent a DVD and watch as often as you like over multiple days. You can download a pay per view and keep it on your Tivo forever and watch it as often as you like. For the same price, Unbox is saddled with a significant competitive disadvantage. Thanks for trying, Amazon, I would be eager to use your service, and I would use it a lot, especially for kids shows, but the rules you are stuck with do not match the way the viewing public watches video. Someone doesn't want you to succeed.

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.