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12 Stars You'll Be Surprised To Find In These BBC Shakespeare Classics

The BBC Store is celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.
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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.

Check out the BBC Store collection here, and see the surprising stars below: 

 

Phil Daniels as Puck
A Midsummer Night's Dream
John Cleese
Taming Of The Shrew
Leonard Rossiter
King John
Felicity Kendall as Viola
Twelfth Night
Brenda Blethyn as Cordelia
King Lear
Jenny Agutter
Love's Labour's Lost
Alan Rickman as Tybalt
Romeo and Juliet
Roger Daltrey as Dromio
The Comedy of Errors
James Bolam as Touchstone
As You Like It
Helen Mirren as Cymbeline
Cymbeline
Robert Lindsay as Benedick
Much Ado About Nothing
Bob Hoskins as Iago
Othello
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