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Inspired by reports of the first English colonies in the West Indies and imbued with a spirit of magic and the supernatural, The Tempest is Shakespeare's late great masterpiece of forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment.
Its tempestuous poetry shot through with touches of humour and moments of heart-rending simplicity, King Lear is one of the deepest artistic explorations of the human condition. More info »
Shakespeare put some of his most dazzling dramatic poetry at the service of this teasing, glittering, hilarious and amazingly inventive play, whose seriousness is only fleetingly glimpsed beneath its dreamlike surface. More info »
Shakespeare's outrageous comedy introduces one of the theatre's great screwball double-acts, a couple hellbent on confusing and outwitting each other right up to its controversial conclusion. More info »
From its mesmerising first moments to the last fulfilment of the witches' prophecy, Shakespeare?s gripping account of the profoundest engagement with the forces of evil enthrals the imagination. More info »
Intersecting plays, instrumentals, songs and poems will bring to life this glorious pageant of the Baroque period, the time when the trumpet began to ?sing?, and express in its uniquely celebratory fashion the turning points in human experience: birth, war, love and death. More info »
Bold characterisation, black comedy, rhetorical power and, in the personality of Henry VI, touching pathos combine in Shakespeare's powerful rendering of a country racked by civil war. More info »
Bold characterisation, black comedy, rhetorical power and, in the personality of Henry VI, touching pathos combine in Shakespeare's powerful rendering of a country racked by civil war. More info »
A bloody power struggle opens up between the King?s party, led by the fearsome Queen Margaret, and the Yorkists, led first by Richard, then his sons Edward and ?that lump of foul deformity?, Richard of Gloucester. More info »
A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage. More info »
From the inventive and anarchic team who brought The Frontline to the Globe comes a modern take on Euripides' The Bacchae, combining crossdressing, drug abuse, internet porn and classical myth, all told with a Shakespearean disregard for the usual conventions of time and place. More info »