The British Museum Does Shakespeare

Wish I were at the British Museum for its Shakespeare Exhibition last year ...

Richard III is one of the most intriguing evil characters in Shakespeare, along with Iago and Lady Macbeth.

Jonjo O'Neill, as Richard III (image credit)

Wow, Cleopatra is well-acted here by Harriet Walter, in the moments before killing herself to be reunited with Mark Antony.

Harriet Walter, as Cleopatra (image credit)

There is a moral dilemma, I think, to the character of Brutus. This clip clarifies why, in the end, he stabbed Caesar. But does Caesar's ambitiousness justify the assassination?

Paterson Joseph, as Brutus (image credit)