In the summer of 2012, as part of the London Olympic Games' Cultural Olympiad and the World Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare's Globe hosted the hugely successful Globe to Globe Festival. This unprecedented six-week event saw companies from across the world perform at Shakespeare's Globe in over 30 different languages. Now you can watch 10 of these performances on Drama Online. Further collections will launch from 2023 onwards, eventually offering access to a total of 30 of these filmed performances.
Available now for purchase via annual subscription and perpetual access at institutions worldwide.
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The Shakespeare's Globe to Globe Festival on Screen 1 collection will support all courses in Shakespeare's plays, and especially those exploring: global performance; intercultural production, interpretation and reception; and themes such as gender across global cultures.
This first collection includes:
Antony & Cleopatra (Turkish)
Coriolanus (Japanese)
Hamlet (Lithuanian)
Henry VIII (Castilian Spanish)
The Merchant of Venice (Hebrew)
Much Ado About Nothing (French)
Richard II (Palestinian Arabic)
The Tempest (Bangla)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shona, a language of Zimbabwe)
The Winter's Tale (Yoruba, spoken in West Africa, primarily in Nigeria)
All the videos will have audio in their original language alongside fully translated English subtitles.
