Celebrate Shakespeare's Globe's 21st year with The Bard's most famous play. Kicking off 2018 summer season, Hamlet asks "Who's there?", the first of many questions that the Globe will be asking itself and its audience as they look ahead to the next twenty years of Globe seasons.

The Forest of Arden does a roaring trade in confused lovers, exiled aristos and melancholy fools in Shakespeare's witty musical comedy staged once more by the Globe as part of their Summer 2018 Season. Eminently the most quotable ('all the worlds a stage...') and most accessible of our Will's works, this pastoral comedy of cross-dressing, courtly satire and song is always welcome, gently delighting audiences of all ages.

Passions run deep in The Taming of the Shrew, a marvellously uproarious comedy that sees warring temperaments between reluctant suitor Petruchio and his even more reluctant intended Katherina in the search for matrimonial bliss.

From tropical shipwrecks to yellow stockings, Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's battiest and most memorable comedies and a season at the Globe is rarely complete without an outing. A perfect introduction to The Bard for newcomers, it contains some of his classic devices, including cross-dressing, confused lovers, zany servants and merry song leading to a highly pleasing finale.

In the cash-rich, consumer-driven society of Venice, everything has a price. So when the wealthy heiress Portia is forced to play off her many suitors against each other, the competing men must be able to finance their part of the bet. One man, Antonio approaches the much-maligned Jewish moneylender Shylock; years of anti-Semitism has made him bitter and hardened. Shylock begrudgingly agrees to loan him the money - but should he lose the wager, he will take a pound of flesh - literally.