Guides: EN 3225: Shakespeare in Performance: Videos

Streaming Online Videos

Use the database Academic Video Online to search for online videos in the humanities. In Academic Video Online, type the title of the video (for example, "Twelfth Night") into the search box in the top right corner.

Academic Video Online
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WPI Library Search

To find videos in WPI Library Search, enter your search terms. On the results page, go to the Resource Type filter on the left and select Video. Then go to the Availability filter on the left: to find online videos select Available online; to find DVDs, select Available on shelf.

Online Videos and DVDs at WPI Library

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2018)
This contemporary production played in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Barbican in London, and on a 2019 national tour.The show featured Bally Gill and Karen Fishwick in the title roles, and used young people from the different regions visited to perform as the Chorus alongside the professional cast.In 2019, the tour visited Norwich, Newcastle, Bradford, Nottingham, Blackpool, Cardiff and Glasgow.
Directed by Erica Whyman, Bridget Caldwell
Shakespeare Company (Stratford-on-Avon, England: Royal Shakespeare Company, 2018)
2 hours 28 minutes
Romeo and Juliet (Globe Theatre, 2010)
This is a performance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet directed by Dominic Dromgoole. This production brings refreshing clarity to one of Shakespeare's most famous and best-loved tragedies. Filmed before a live audience at Shakespeare's Globe in the heart of London, its intimate and atmospheric setting adds immediacy and vitality to the humour and passion of Shakespeare's verse.
2 hours 52 minutes
Romeo and Juliet (Broadway, 2013)
The digitally captured production of the 2013 Broadway revival of "Romeo and Juliet" stars Orlando Bloom and two-time Tony-nominated Condola Rashad. The production ran for 93 performances at the Richard Rodgers Theatre from September 19th to December 8th, 2013. It is the 36th time "Romeo and Juliet" has appeared on Broadway.
2 hours 15 minutes
Romeo and Juliet (BBC, 1978)
Directed by Alvin Rakoff
2 hours, 46 minutes
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Film Collections PR2831 A2 Z44 1968x dvd

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2018)
Shakespeare’s hilarious yet heart-breaking tale of unrequited love.
Directed by Christopher Luscombe
Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford-on-Avon, England: Royal Shakespeare Company, 2018)
2 hours 21 minutes
Twelfth Night (1996)
Directed by Trevor Nunn
Film Collections PR2837 A2 N86 1996x dvd
Twelfth Night (BBC, 1980)
Directed by John Gorrie
2 hours 7 minutes

Macbeth

Macbeth (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller.
Directed by Polly Findlay
Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford-on-Avon, England: Royal Shakespeare Company)
2 hours 4 minutes
Macbeth (1948)
Directed by and starring Orson Welles
Film Collections PR2823 A2 W452 1948x dvd
Macbeth (1979)
Filmed version of Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth
Film Collections PR2823 A2 N8 1978x dvd
Macbeth (2010)
Director Rupert Goold adapts his gripping stage production of Macbeth - with Sir Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood reprising their Tony-nominated performances - into this edgy film adaptation, which relocates the bloody action to a nameless 20th-century netherworld.