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Romeo & Juliet
MIMC Award-Winner
Education K-12

Macbeth
MIMC Award-Winner
Education K-12

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CD Overview Act One, Scene 1- Witches' Heath
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CD Features
Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet enliven the Shakespeare experience without omitting the beauty of Shakespeare's verse or the multi-faceted nature of his plays.
  • Over 40 minutes of video performances
  • New text specially edited by Gary Taylor
  • Over 20 minutes of video commentaries
  • Original music
  • Backgrounds filmed on-location in Scotland and Italy
  • text rollovers convert original texts to their modern equivalents
  • paraphrases of selections illuminate the text


Our video presenters

Rebecca Flynn Brown

Deputy Director of Education at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Gary Taylor

Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama

Anne Perry

This English novelist clarifies the real history of Macbeth and King Duncan at various historical venues near her home in Scotland.

Eva Freeman

English major at Yale

Judith Annozine

actress

They'll discuss topics such as images of light and chaos in Macbeth; boy actors in Elizabethan theaters; humor in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's development as a dramatist, and countless other topics.