Of course you do! Who doesn’t?

The Globe Theatre, the reconstruction of Shakepeare’ original Globe, is offering streaming plays for free beginning today. Hamlet, the play about the Danish prince, is available from April 6th for two weeks. Other plays follow on a two week rotation.

This is a huge opportunity to watch some of the best Shakepearean actors perform at the illustrious venue, for free. Shakespeare’s plays were always intended to be watched and taking this opportunity to see them “live” will certainly help viewers understand why the Bard occupies such an illustrious place in the English literary canon.

Stream them  through the Globe Player, here: https://globeplayer.tv/

Also available through the Globe Player’s free content is Shakespeare Lives, a collection of short films that illustrate the creativity and adaptation that artists have taken some of Bill’s most famous plays. The Sonnet Project NYC, where New Yorkers have at reciting Shakespearean sonnets, and interviews with performers of the plays.

There seems to be plans to release some of their Globe to Globe productions, plays performed in other languages, for free, beginning with a Korean A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I will update with dates for those when I find out more. The itinerary of their streaming English language plays:

‘Hamlet’ (2018), April 6-19

‘Romeo & Juliet’ (2009), April 20-May 3

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (2013), May 4-17

‘The Winter’s Tale’ (2018), May 18-31

‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’ (2018), June 1-14

‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ (2019), June 15-28

Interesting stuff all around for the Shakespeare buff or a student trying to figure out what all the fuss was all about.