{"id":469,"date":"2010-02-10T23:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T04:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=469"},"modified":"2010-02-10T23:45:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T04:45:52","slug":"bbc-shakespeare-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"BBC Shakespeare On Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=198\">wrote<\/a> about the BBC Shakespeare DVDs two and a half years ago, prices have dropped on both sides of the Atlantic. You can now get the American discs for $99.99 per set, down from $149.99, but that still means paying $389.96 for only 20 plays at Amazon, which comes to roughly $19.50 per play. (One of them is 10% off right now.) The UK box, containing all 37 plays, lists for &#163;199,99, but is on sale right now at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B000B6F8V4\/ref=s9_simh_gw_p74_t1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&#038;pf_rd_s=center-1&#038;pf_rd_r=13J4CAWS78VWZTJ2NEXP&#038;pf_rd_t=101&#038;pf_rd_p=467198433&#038;pf_rd_i=468294\">Amazon UK<\/a> for only &#163;81,97, or roughly $128 (US), which works out to less than $3.50 per play. Of course, you will need an all-region DVD player to view them in the U.S., but those are not expensive, and are useful for watching other films not available in Region 1 coding.<\/p>\n<p>The icing on the cake: Amazon UK usually subtracts 15% when shipping expensive items to U.S. addresses, since Americans, not being eligible for the National Health, aren&#8217;t expected to pay the VAT tax that finances it. That would bring the price down to less than $3.00 per play, plus shipping, which was fast and reasonably-priced when I bought the set a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to have all the plays, since the ones not available in the U.S. box sets are precisely the ones you are least likely to see in a theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I wrote about the BBC Shakespeare DVDs two and a half years ago, prices have dropped on both sides of the Atlantic. You can now get the American discs for $99.99 per set, down from $149.99, but that still &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=469\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,80,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackfriars","category-culture-plays","category-theater-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}