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All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV, part 1
Henry IV, part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, part 1
Henry VI, part 2
Henry VI, part 3
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter’s Tale
Shakespeareana

Available versions

1916: Ernest C. Warde

1953: Andrew McCullough

1971: Peter Brook

1971: Grigori Kozintsev (Korol Lir)

1974: Edwin Sherin

1976: Tony Davenall

1982: Jonathan Miller

1982: Alan Cooke

1983: Michael Elliott

1998: Richard Eyre

1999: Brian Blessed

2008: Trevor Nunn

2015: Antoni Cimolino

2016: Gregory Doran, Robin Lough

2017: Nancy Meckler, Ian Russell

2018: Alexander Barnett

2018: Richard Eyre


Adaptations

1985: Ran

1987: King Lear

1997: A Thousand Acres

2000: The King is Alive

2002: King of Texas


Production drama

2003: Slings and Arrows (Season 3)


Related

2015: Shakespeare Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 6


King Lear
2008: Trevor Nunn

This is Ian McKellen’s legendary version of King Lear.


Cordelia: Romola Garai

Curan: Seymour Matthews

Duke of Albany: Julian Harries

Duke of Burgundy: Peter Hinton

Duke of Cornwall: Guy Williams

Earl of Gloucester: William Gaunt

Earl of Kent: Jonathan Hyde

Edgar: Ben Meyjes

Edmund: Philip Winchester

First Gloucester Servant; Doctor: Russell Byrne

Fool: Sylvester McCoy

Gentleman: David Weston

Goneril: Frances Barber

King Lear: Ian McKellen

King of France: Ben Addis

Knight; Servant: Adam Booth

Lady in Waiting: Zoe Boyle

Maid: Naomi Capron

Messenger: Richard Goulding

Oswald: John Heffernan

Regan: Monica Dolan

Second Gloucester Servant: Melanie Jessop

Soldier: Branwell Donaghey

Soldier: Jim Creighton

Soldier: Kieran Bew