From Bard to Verse. Episode 2

Synopsis: Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 2 - David Walliams performs ‘In my stars I am above thee’ from Twelfth Night (II v), Ronni Ancona performs ‘This is a gift that I have...' from Love’s Labour’s Lost (II v), Lisa Riley performs ‘There are a sort of men whose visage...' from The Merchant of Venice (I i), Anthony Head performs ‘I have neither the scholar’s melancholy’ from As You Like It (IV i), Lucy Gaskell performs ‘Sometimes he angers me...' from Henry IV, Part 1 (III ii), Mark Gatiss performs ‘Merry Sir, she is the kitchen wench and all grease...' from The Comedy of Errors (III ii), Mark Benton performs ‘Think you a little dint and daunt my ears’ from The Taming of the Shrew (I ii), David Walliams performs ‘How many thousand of my poorest subjects are at this hour asleep from Henry IV, Part 2 (III i), Catherine Tate reads Sonnet 91 ‘Some glory in their birth, some in thei skill’, Mark Gatiss performs ` God, methinks it were a happy life, to be no better than a homely swain..' from Henry VI, Part 3 (II v) and Fraser James performs ‘Thou nature art my goddess’ from King Lear (I ii).
Series: From Bard to Verse
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 6 Apr 2004 at 19:15 (Channel: BBC3)
Duration: 15 mins

British Universities Film & Video Council