Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny...

Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler ...

Orlando is forced to work like a servant for his brother Oliver, so he goes to win his fortune in a wrestling contest...

Marcus Brutus is Caesar's close friend and a Roman praetor. Brutus allows himself to be cajoled into joining a group ...

When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't b...

Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bul...

Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northu...

King Henry's health is failing as a second rebellion against his reign threatens to surface. Intent on securing his l...

Insulted by the Dauphin, the newly-crowned Henry V gathers his troops for war. But Henry must convince his men that h...

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises hersel...

Prospero, the true Duke of Milan, is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban ...

Hamlet returns home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the batt...

Baptista has two daughters: Katherine and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested...

Antonio's best friend, Bassiano, is in love with Portia, a wise and wealthy heiress, and needs three thousand ducats ...

Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of t...

King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Queen Hermione, of deceiving him with his good friend Polixenes. Leontes d...

Ancient Athenian Timon is well-known for his generosity - his many friends come to all his parties and like to get pr...

Octavius Caesar (later known as Augustus), Mark Antony, and Lepidus form a triumvirate to rule the Roman Empire. Anto...

Set in 16th-century Venice and Cyprus, Othello the Moor, a noble black warrior in the Venetian army, has secretly mar...

The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenge...

Hermia is in love with Lysander, but her father wants her to marry Demetrius. To escape the arranged marriage, she an...

When England's ageing King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madn...

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mi...

Following the death of his father, Henry V, the young Henry VI is proclaimed king under the protectorship of his uncl...

Dissension is rife in the English court. Suffolk's influence intensifies. The fractious English nobles unite in their...

With Richard Plantagenet on the throne of England, the Yorkists confront the Lancastrians. King Henry agrees to York'...

Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convi...

Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband....

Shakespeare's dark tragedy tells of ambition and guilt amidst a background of regicide, violence and the supernatural...

Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago....

Two great friends leave Verona for Milan, Valentine with great enthusiasm and Proteus unwillingly, as he will have to...

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

King Richard I, the revered 'Lionheart', is dead. His brother John has become King of England, but the French argue t...

When Prince Pericles, visiting Antioch, discovers the dreaded answer to King Antiochus's riddle, he flees for his lif...

Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Be...

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic v...

Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora and her...