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Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 6 - Stephen Tompkinson performs ‘If music be the film of love’ from...
Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 7 - Ralf Little performs ‘Now the hungry lion roars’ from A Midsummer...
Television comedy drama. Tired of his father’s selfish behaviour and criticisms, and his insolent and indolent son who is averse to education, divorced dry-cleaner proprietor (motto - ‘no pain, no...
Television version of the play directed by Richard Eyre. Jeremy Irons is Henry IV and Simon Russell Beale is Falstaff.
In the first episode of the Monty Python special (performed in phonetic German), a documentary about Albrecht Dürer is interrupted by a condensed performance of The Merchant of Venice, starring ‘The Bad...
In episode 12 of Season 1, Fraser investigates strange occurences in a private mental institution by posing as a madman. Hamlet’s "I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk...
Televised version of the play, with Robert Perceval as Caesar and Eric Porter as Brutus. According to its producer, Stuart Burge, the production strives "for a true and lively interpretation of the text, but...
First televised adaptation of the play broadcast in the Television World Theatre series. Directed and produced by Peter Dews, with John Neville as Henry V and Bernard Hepton as Chorus/Shakespeare.
Science fiction adventure series. The Doctor takes Martha on her first trip in the TARDIS. Arriving in Elizabethan England in 1599 they meet William Shakespeare who is writing Love’s Labour’s Won. The...
BBC screen adaptation by John Caird which compresses both parts of Henry IV into a three-hour television drama focusing on the father/son relationships in the plays.
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