Shakespeare's Plays

Discover Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Explore their performance history, character overviews, and plot summaries. Find unique theatre gifts at the Shakespeare’s Globe shop and enjoy themed talks, tours, and activities for all ages.

Macbeth

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Felixe Forde as Juliet and Hayden Mampasi as Romeo. Photography by Tristram Kenton.

Romeo and Juliet

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An actor wearing a large donkey head leans against a pillar as a woman seductively wraps her hand around some rope.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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A group of people on the stage looking in the same direction

Twelfth Night

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Hamlet

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Two people swinging off another person

King Lear

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