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The lists below show you all the video tapes, audio tapes, CD-ROMs, and DVDs I can find for sale. Skip quickly to comedies, histories, tragedies, or other material about Shakespeare, acting, etc. Play names in gray mean I cannot find a recording of that play.
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Cymbeline
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
with Leon Charles
Also see Verdi's classic opera:
Falstaff by Opera D'Oro
Falstaff, released by Sony Entertainment
Falstaff, released by Deutsche Grammophon
Midsummer Night's Dream
James Bowman
Diana Rigg
James Cagney as Bottom
Animated version from Random House
The Animated TalesHarper audio cassette
Penguin audio cassette
Study guide to Midsummer Night's Dream w/ Helen Mirren
Much Ado About Nothing
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh (Widescreen)
Kenneth Branagh (DVD)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Taming of the Shrew
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
DVD
Kiss Me Kate (musical based on the play)Penguin audio cassette
Harper audio cassette
Durkin Hayes audio cassette
The Tempest
Prospero's Books, starring John Gielgud
John Cassavetes (lame, modern retelling of Shakespeare's play, directed by Paul Mazursky)
Efram Zimbalist
The Animated Tales
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
Helena Bonham Carter
The Animated TalesForbidden Planet (sci-fi retelling starring Walter Pidgeon)
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Noble Kinsmen
Winter's Tale
King John
King Richard II
dir. by William Woodman
King Henry IV Part 1
My Own Private Idaho (modern film with parallels to Hal and Falstaff, directed by Gus van Sant)
King Henry IV Part 2
King Henry V
King Henry VI Part 1
King Henry VI Part 2
King Henry VI Part 3
King Richard III
King Henry VIII
Antony & Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet
Mel Gibson
Kenneth Branagh
Laurence Olivier
Anthony Hopkins as Claudius
The Animated Tales
Understanding Shakespeare Series
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Ian Holm
Laurence Olivier
Orson Welles
Jean-Luc Godard's modern, confused adaptation, starring Burgess Meredith as Don Learo
Paul Scofield
Mike KellenRan (Japanese retelling by Akira Kurosawa)
DVDA Thousand Acres (modern retelling, starring Jason Robards, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange)
A Thousand Acres (DVD)
Macbeth
Orson Welles
Jon Finch (directed by Roman Polanski)
Michael Jayston
The Animated Tales
Understanding Shakespeare SeriesThrone of Blood (Japanese retelling by Akira Kurosawa)
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Othello
Laurence Fishburne & Kenneth Branagh
Laurence Olivier
William Marshall
Orson Welles
Understanding Shakespeare SeriesOpera, Otello, by Giuseppe Verdi
Placido Domingo
Another Placido Domingo
Hanns Nocker
Sir George Solti conducts
Romeo and Juliet
Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes
Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey
Whiting & Hussey Widescreen
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Geraldine Somerville and Jonathan Firth
Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer
The Animated Tales
Understanding Shakespeare Series
Tromeo & Juliet (modern retelling)West Side Story (modern musical retelling)
Widescreen
DVD another DVD copy of the same performanceOpera
Bel Canto SocietyBallet
Bolshoi Ballet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
A& E Biography on William Shakespeare
Stratford upon Avon and Shakespeare
Life of Shakespeare also known as Shakespeare: His life and times (6 tape set)
Understanding Shakespeare (performane and interpretation of Shakespeare's greatest plays)
