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Patrick Stewart Featured in PBS’ Two Tragedies: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth Online Exhibition

Patrick Stewart in Macbeth
(© Manuel Harlan)
Patrick Stewart in Macbeth
(© Manuel Harlan)

Two Tragedies: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth is now available on the recently launched PBS Arts website. The multimedia exhibition showcases full versions of Hamlet featuring Patrick Stewart as Claudius, and a sneak preview of Stewart’s performance in Macbeth, which airs October 6 on PBS stations.

The PBS Arts exhibit also offers a behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of Hamlet, interviews with Stewart, and a 2007 PBS NewsHour story in which Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and other well-known legal minds stage a trial of Hamlet.

For further information and to see Two Tragedies, visit; www.pbs.org/arts.