Shakespeare lives in 2016
Macbeth retold by schoolchildren from around the world – video
The witches are Colombian, Banquo’s Ghost appears in Mexico and Macbeth’s castle is Croatian in this crowd-sourced version of Shakespeare’s tragedy, performed by schoolchildren from around the world
Antony Gormley's iron men come alive for A Winter's Tale – video
Writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce and director Carl Hunter reimagine Shakespeare’s late tragedy in an otherwordly film set amongst the statues of Antony Gormley’s installation Another Place on Crosby beach in Liverpool
King Lear in a care home: Phil Davis plays the storming monarch – video
Cursing and raging, Lear is admitted into care while he plots revenge on his daughters in a modern take on Act II, Scene 4 from Shakespeare’s tragedy
My love-hate relationship with Othello – video
Phoebe Boswell riffs on her conflicted attitudes towards Othello in Dear Mr Shakespeare, which co-stars Ashley Thomas aka Bashy
Neon demons: A Midsummer Night's Dream becomes futuristic duet – video
Director Sing J Lee and pop star Viktoria Modesta have dreamed up a bold sci-fi vision of Shakespeare’s comedy, imagining a clubland encounter between Titania and Bottom
Something rotten in the lasagne: Hamlet's poisonous family reunion – video
Ronni Ancona’s Gertrude serves up a bloody homecoming dinner down the Prince of Denmark pub in the seventh of the British Council films for Shakespeare Lives 2016
A song for sweet lovers: Anjana Vasan's bluesy tribute to As You Like It – video
Anjana Vasan, who is currently starring in Emma Rice’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe in London, performs a musical triptych inspired by the songs in As You Like It
Anne-Marie Duff is Miranda's mother in a rewritten Tempest – video
The words of a treasured letter ring in Miranda’s ears as she explores her island home in this re-imagining of The Tempest, written and directed by Teresa Griffiths and narrated by Anne-Marie Duff
'Unsex me here': Vicky McClure unleashes hell as Lady Macbeth – video
Vicky McClure as Lady Macbeth
Sea Side Story: Laura Dockrill's salty Romeo and Juliet - video
Poet and illustrator Laura Dockrill’s contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet is set on a windswept English beach, where ‘two houses, both alike in common crime’ wage an ice-cream war
What you ill: UK artists rap Shakespeare's Twelfth Night – video
In the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, recording artists Maverick Sabre, Mic Righteous and Eyez perform lyrics inspired by Shakespeare’s romantic comedy