To celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary, the BBC Store has made available all 37 of the Bard's plays on its digital service, and there are some surprising names in the cast-lists.
Other works available on BBC Store include the RSC's 'Hamlet' starring David Tennant and Patrick Stewart, 'ShakespeaRe-Told' modern adaptations from writers including David Nicholls and Sally Wainwright from 2005, and 'Macbeth on the Estate' from 1997 starring Ray Winstone.
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Check out the BBC Store collection here, and see the surprising stars below:
Phil Daniels as Puck
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
John Cleese
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Taming Of The Shrew
Leonard Rossiter
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King John
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Felicity Kendall as Viola
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Twelfth Night
Brenda Blethyn as Cordelia
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King Lear
Jenny Agutter
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Love's Labour's Lost
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Alan Rickman as Tybalt
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Romeo and Juliet
Roger Daltrey as Dromio
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The Comedy of Errors
James Bolam as Touchstone
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As You Like It
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Helen Mirren as Cymbeline
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Cymbeline
Robert Lindsay as Benedick
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Much Ado About Nothing
Bob Hoskins as Iago
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Othello
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