BritBox Launching the Complete BBC Television Shakespeare Collection in North America

BritBox is launching soon the full BBC Television Shakespeare Collection, marking the first time all 37 adaptations will be available to stream in one place.

Starting Tuesday, May 26, 2020, BritBox subscribers in North America will be able to stream the BBC’s television adaptations of William Shakespeare‘s 37 plays — some of the finest works of comedy and drama in the English language.

Said Soumya Sriraman, President & CEO BritBox:

“Never before have all 37 of BBC’s Shakespeare collection been available in one place, as a huge Shakespeare connoisseur, selfishly I wanted this for myself, I hope everyone feels the same.”

The titles in the collection include:

1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream — with Oscar® winner Dame Helen Mirren
2. All’s Well That Ends Well — with Oscar® nominee Celia Johnson, BAFTA winner Michael Hordern
3. Antony and Cleopatra — with BAFTA nominee Jane Lapotaire, Ian Charleson
4. As You Like It — with Oscar® winner Dame Helen Mirren
5. Cymbeline — with BAFTA winner Robert Lindsay
6. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark — with Emmy® winner Derek Jacobi, BAFTA winner Claire Bloom, Golden Globes® nominee Patrick Stewart
7. Henry IV Part I — with Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Anthony Quayle, Clive Swift
8. Henry IV Part II — with Rob Edwards, David Neal
9. Henry V — with Emmy® nominee John Abineri
10. Henry VI Part I — with Oscar® nominee Brenda Blethyn
11. Henry VI Part II — with John Benfield, Peter Benson, David Burke, Arthur Cox
12. Henry VI Part III — with Gerald Blackmore, Michael Byrne, Antony Brown
13. Henry VIII — with BAFTA nominees Ronald Pickup and Timothy West
14. Julius Caesar — with Richard Pasco, Charles Gray, Keitch Michell, David Collings, John Sterland
15. King Lear — with Oscar® nominee Brenda Blethyn, BAFTA nominees Michael Hordern and Michael Kitchen, Screen Actors Guild Awards winner Penelope Wilton
16. Love’s Labour’s Lost — with Emmy® winner David Warner
17. Macbeth — with BAFTA nominees Nicol Williamson and Jane Lapotaire
18. Measure for Measure — with Oscar® nominee Kate Nelligan, BAFTA winner Tim Pigott-Smith
19. Much Ado About Nothing — with BAFTA winner Robert Lindsay, Cherie Lunghi
20. Othello — with Oscar® winner Anthony Hopkins
21. Pericles, Prince of Tyre — with Edward Petherbridge, John Woodvine
22. Richard II — with BAFTA winner Derek Jacobi, Oscar® winner John Gielgud
23. Romeo and Juliet — with Golden Globe® winner Alan Rickman
24. The Comedy of Errors — with BAFTA nominee Michael Kitchen, Golden Globes® nominee Roger Daltrey
25. The Life and Death of King John — with BAFTA nominee Lenoard Rossiter, BAFTA winner John Thaw
26. The Merchant of Venice — with Emmy® nominee John Rhys-Davies, John Nettles
27. The Merry Wives of Windsor — with Oscar® nominees Alan Bennett and Judy Davis, BAFTA nominees Richard Griffiths and Prunella Scales
28. The Taming of the Shrew — with Emmy® winner John Cleese
29. The Tempest — with BAFTA winner Michael Hordern, Oscar® nominee Nigel Hawthorne, BAFTA nominee Andrew Sachs
30. The Tragedy of Coriolanus — with Paul Jesson, Ray Roberts, Leon Lissek
31. The Tragedy of Richard III — with Ron Cook, BAFTA winner Annette Crosbie
32. Timon of Athens — with Oscar® nominee Jonathan Pryce
33. Titus Andronicus — with Emmy® winner Dame Eileen Atkins
34. Troilus and Cressida — with BAFTA nominee Anton Lesser, Suzanne Burden
35. Twelfth Night — with Golden Globes® nominee Alec McCowen, BAFTA nominee Robert Hardy, Felicity Kendal, BAFTA winners Annette Crosbie and Robert Lindsay, IFTA winner Sinéad Cusack
36. Two Gentlemen of Verona — with Frank Barrie, Tessa Peake-Jones, Michael Byrne
37. Winter’s Tale — with BAFTA nominee Jeremy Kemp, John Welsh, David Burke, Robert Stephens

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