David Jones offers a personal view of the play Twelfth Night, which he describes as "full of fun and high spirits but with a bitter-sweet quality both haunting and elusive."

Exploring appearance and reality as a theme in Shakespeare's, Macbeth.

A quick summary exploring the theme of appearance and reality in Shakespeare's, Twelfth Night.

A personal view of the play presented by Paul Johnson.

This video discusses Shakespeare's Henry VIII as a study of the attempts of several people, including King Henry, Cardinal Woolsey, Catharine of Aragon, and Anne Boleyn, to play the "game of power."

Novelist Susan Hill offers her personal view of a play which illustrates one of Shakespeare's most obsessive themes: the conflict between appearance and reality. Susan presents her personal view of the play from the interior of Saltwood Castle, Kent, as she describes the dark castle as suitable for the dark atmosphere of the play.

This 1-minute short silent film, made by the American Mutoscope & Biograph company, depicts the duel in Shakespeare's Macbeth between Macbeth and Young Siward and then Macbeth and Macduff. It is one of the oldest surviving filmed adaptations of Shakespeare.

This star-studded 1970 feature film production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was the first full-color adaptation of the play. It tells the famous story of Caesar's assassination and the subsequent struggle between his friend and protege Marc Antony and the anti-Caesar conspirators, led by Brutus and Cassius. Charlton Heston stars as Marc Antony, as he did in a previous 1950 film. Jason Robards's understated performance as Brutus proved controversial....

Sir David Hunt offers his personal view of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, which he sees as a savage satire on war and as very relevant to our own time.

In this rollicking Shakespeare comedy, two women come up with a hilarious plan to teach their would-be seducer the error of his ways, while their husbands draw their own conclusions. This production from the Stratford Festival is set in the 1950s in a town not unlike Stratford, bringing the story close to home.