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Free Streaming of Shakespeare’s Plays, 6/4-28/6 @ Shakespeare’s Globe

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Free Streaming of Shakespeare’s Plays, 6/4-28/6 @ Shakespeare’s Globe
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ilovefullprice on 09/04/2020 - 15:33 timeout.com (1492 clicks)
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The latest London theatre to step up to the plate with free high-quality content is Shakespeare’s Globe. The iconic Elizabethan-style playhouse already had its own public streaming platform in the form of Globe Player, but watching it has always come at a fairly steep rate, with productions rented or purchased at individual prices that usually exceed a month’s full access to many TV streaming platforms. As of Monday (April 6), that changes.

Here’s the full list of free-to-stream 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

In other languages, every single production from the 2012 Globe to Globe series will be made available for free, for the whole period. So that’s a Korean ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, a Macedonian ‘Henry VI Part 3’, a Polish ‘Macbeth’, a Hebrew ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and so on and so forth. Check their link.

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Credit to INFIDEL‘s comment below for the direct link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ShakespearesGlobe

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  • Yaren24 on 09/04/2020 - 15:39

    Who watch Shakespeare?

    • serrg on 09/04/2020 - 15:42
      +1

      I will watch these plays and I will make my parents watch them. Some in English and some in Spanish for variety.

    • INFIDEL on 09/04/2020 - 15:54
      +1

      Like many tourist in London, I've watched Shakespeare's plays at the Globe. Stood for the performance as I wasn't going to pay for the posh seats.

      Now can enjoy it in the lounge or even in bed😉 Luxury!

      I love a good Puck💘

      • anastasiastarz on 09/04/2020 - 16:37

        Same, but it was the pop-up globe. Finally my height is an advantage and we were pretty close to the front! $20 tix in the rain, they had fake grass so not muddy.

        • INFIDEL on 09/04/2020 - 17:02

          Wouldn't want to be short to view the play from the pit!

          But in the rain!
          Now you can enjoy Shakespeare in comfort.

    • nebakke on 09/04/2020 - 15:55
      +2

      Who doesn't?

    • Paulyjay on 09/04/2020 - 19:25

      Me watch Shakespeare

    • obenihk on 09/04/2020 - 19:29
      +1

      Shakespeare's plays were written more than 400 years ago. You'd be silly trying to approach them directly without some kind of a learning aid. Me personally, I find the No Fear Shakespeare line of books (also available free online: https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/) immensely helpful. I still read them first as an introductory pathway into each next play I want to explore. The enduring attraction of Shakespeare for me is in his clever use of language to express universal human emotions that are as real now as they were in his time or as real here as they are on the other side of the world (I did not understand a word of English until I turned 10).

      The very first work I read was Henry V. The moment I finished reading King Henry's Crispin's Day Speech (https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/henryv/page_18…) as he prepared his soldiers for battle, I just knew that I was going to have a lifelong relationship with Shakespeare.

  • saveye on 09/04/2020 - 15:52
    +1

    He's great, give him a try.

  • scperfume on 09/04/2020 - 15:57

    Sigh no more, ladies, sigh nor more;
    Men were deceivers ever;
    One foot in sea and one on shore,
    To one thing constant never;
    Then sigh not so,
    But let them go,
    And be you blithe and bonny;
    Converting all your sounds of woe
    Into. Hey nonny, nonny.

  • norkle on 09/04/2020 - 16:05
    +1

    You had me at free…

    But I can't find anything about the streaming on the Globe Player website. How do I find them, or find the schedule?

  • DangerDave11 on 09/04/2020 - 16:11

    I'm also confused. How do I actually watch the plays?

    • ilovefullprice on 09/04/2020 - 18:38
      +1

      Please see INFIDEL‘s comment below

  • [Deactivated] on 09/04/2020 - 17:01

    To watch or not watch…

    • norkle on 09/04/2020 - 17:28

      Thanks, that was much more useful.

  • justtoreply on 09/04/2020 - 17:40
    -7

    This is something I didn't want. Ever.

    I fricking hate shakespeare. The world needs to let go!

    • INFIDEL on 09/04/2020 - 18:41
      +1

      Much Ado About Nothing, me thinks😉
      To each their own…

  • Geillis on 09/04/2020 - 20:05

    Thank you, I was supposed to be going to London in July. This helps!

  • CheeryCheapskate on 09/04/2020 - 20:14
    +3

    To Stream or not to Stream: that is the question.
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The lagginess of outrageous internet connections,
    Or to buffer internet data against a sea of data loading troubles,
    And by clicking, Streams them?

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