King Lear
Ian McKellen

Falstaff
Simon Callow

Falstaff
Anthony Quayle

A Winter's Tale
Anthony Sher

Julius Caesar
James Mason, Marlon Brando,
John Gielgud

Macbeth
Ian McKellen & Judi Dench

The Bard

Timon of Athens
Simon Russell Beale

Henry VIII
Richard Griffiths

King John
Leonard Rossiter

Othello
Lenny Henry

Richard II,
Queens Theatre, 1938
John Gielgud

King Lear RSC 2007
Ian McKellen

Love's Labour's Lost
David Tennant

Anthony and Cleopatra
Helen Mirren

The Tempest
Derek Jacobi as Prospero

Chimes at Midnight
Orson Welles, Margaret Rutherford and Keith Baxter

A Plethora of Hamlets
Benedict Cumberbatch,
Jonathan Pryce,
Simon Russell Beale,
DavidTennant

Hamlet
Henry Irving, 1864

Peter O'Toole
Macbeth 1980, The Old Vic

Henry V
Kenneth Branagh

Henry IV
Ralph Richardson as Falstaff

Henry VI
David Warner

King Lear
Anthony Hopkins, National Theatre, 1986

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Charles Laughton, RSC, 1959

King Lear
Paul Scofield, Alec McCowen, RSC, 1962

The Merchant of Venice
Al Pacino as Shylock, 2004

Titus Andronicus
Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming,1999

Timon of Athens
Ralph Richardson

Acting Shakespeare
Ian McKellen, London, 1986

Richard III
Ralph Fiennes, Almeida, 2016

The Tempest
John Gielgud, National Theatre, 1973

Macbeth
Orson Welles, 1948

William Shakespeare

Coriolanus
Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier and Mary Ure

Twelfth Night
Mark Rylance & Stephen Fry