Product Details

• Actors: Jane Lapotaire, Jonathan Pryce, Alan Howard
• Format: Box set, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 5
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Ambrose Video
• DVD Release Date: October 1, 2005
• Run Time: 787 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000B8QF0U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,850 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb!, January 18, 2010

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Cynthia (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BBC Shakespeare Tragedies II DVD Giftbox (DVD)

I have the BBC Shakespeare complete and what can one say, other than it's superb! Word for word as written by WS, not edited, THE best actors in the known world - what more can one want? To read reviews like the previous, where he is NOT reviewing the product and production, but; rather, reviewing the VENDOR of the discs inflames my ire.

One can not go wrong viewing the BBC production of Shakespeare's works.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The BBC wins again, December 8, 2011

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Yon - See all my reviews

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This review is from: BBC Shakespeare Tragedies II DVD Giftbox (DVD)

This is my fourth group of five Shakespeare plays from the BBC series. As before, the performances are excellent, the casting outstanding; the British have an inexhaustible supply of competent or better Shakespearean actors. And, as in all volumes from this series, these DVDs have the tremendous advantage of having the text appear as subtitles (you can turn them off if you so desire), which are of great help in understanding the dialog. The one reservation about this particular selection of plays is that only King Lear is among the Bard's greater plays, and two of them (Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus) are among the most depressing things ever written. Still, it is good to be able to watch even those. I would like to see more of the plays become available in this five-volume format.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have, December 27, 2011

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Alton J. Jones "Al Jones" (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BBC Shakespeare Tragedies II DVD Giftbox (DVD)

I would recommend turning on the English subtitles while watching each DVD to improve comprehension. Each DVD is about 2 hours in length. Hamlet is much longer.