Play over 1000 programmes from the BBC’s archive of Shakespeare’s plays, poems and sonnets.
Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Hamlet
Sent by the ghost of his father to avenge his brutal death, Hamlet’s mission to expose the truth is a perilous journey of madness...
Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Macbeth
Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller. Returning home from battle, the victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heat...
Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing
Autumn 1918: a group of soldiers return from the trenches, and the world-weary Benedick and his friend Claudio fi...
Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Othello
Othello is the greatest general of his age but he is also an outsider whose victories have created enemies of his own. As they p...
Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet
What if your first true love was someone you’d been told to hate? Ripped apart by the bitter divisions of their parents...
Culture in Quarantine: Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice
In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God, and when the gold is flowing, all is well. But when a contract betwee...
RSC's Henry IV, Part 1
Antony Sher stars as Falstaff in the RSC's 2014 production of Shakespeare's history play, directed by the company's artistic director, Gregory Doran.
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Live theatrical event: David Tennant and Catherine Tate present a gala to mark the life and work of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversa...
Lights Up | The Winter's Tale
King Leontes rips his family apart with his jealousy, but grief opens his heart. Will he find the child he abandoned before it is too late? Set...
Macbeth (2010)
This film of Macbeth is based on Chichester Festival's 2007 production of the play starring Patrick Stewart in the title role. It was filmed at Welbeck Abbey ...
Hamlet (2009)
Drama with David Tennant in the title role of the RSC's production of Shakespeare's tragedy. Claudius has killed Prince Hamlet's father and usurped the throne,...
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
A pair of 'star-crossed lovers' from rival families in a violence-riven city must hide their blossoming romance. Baz Luhrmann's explosive update of the...
Romeo & Juliet (2013)
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play about two young, tragic lovers torn apart by the feuding rivalry between their respective families in Medieval Verona.
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
An adaptation of Shakespeare's play about a Jewish moneylender who seeks to forfeit a literal pound of flesh from his Christian nemesis. Starri...
The Taming of the Shrew
Adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy about a feisty, headstrong woman who is eventually tamed by her new husband. Starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard...
The Tempest (2010)
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play: Prospera is banished from Milan by her brother and finds herself stranded on an island with her daughter, where she wait...
ShakespeaRe-told | Much Ado About Nothing
Retelling of Shakespeare plays: a romantic comedy set in a south coast regional TV newsroom, charting the relationship between ex-l...
ShakespeaRe-told | Macbeth
Retelling of Shakespeare plays: when three binmen tell Joe Macbeth he's to become the owner of the restaurant where they work, the head chef, spur...
ShakespeaRe-told | The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare's comedy retold by Sally Wainwright: talented - yet peevish - politician Katherine Minola is under pressure to marry, ...
ShakespeaRe-told | A Midsummer Night's Dream
An updated retelling of Shakespeare's romantic comedy. A Midsummer Night's Dream is transferred to a holiday centre. Cue four wa...
Twelfth Night (1996)
Trevor Nunn's film version of William Shakespeare's mature comedy. Twins Viola and Sebastian are shipwrecked on different parts of the same coast, with ...
Julius Caesar (1953)
Rome, 44 BC. Caesar's power has grown so great that even his allies in the senate plot his downfall. Classic Hollywood adaptation of William Shakespeare...
Richard III (1955)
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous Richard, Duke of York, conspires and plots to seize power for himself, or...
Twelfth Night (1974)
A BBC production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with a Regency theme and set in the splendours of Castle Howard in Yorkshire.
Macbeth (1948)
Orson Welles's classic film version of Shakespeare's play about a Scottish nobleman heavily influenced by his wife's lust for power.
Performance | Macbeth on the Estate
Shakespeare's tragedy play is updated to the present day. Set on the Ladywood council estate in Birmingham, it imagines a scenario where ...
Performance | Henry IV Part I
Part 1 of a 1995 BBC screen adaptation by John Caird which compresses both parts of Henry IV into a three-hour television drama focusing on the...
Performance | Henry IV Part II
Part 2 of a 1995 BBC screen adaptation by John Caird which compresses both parts of Henry IV into a three-hour television drama focusing on th...
Performance | King Lear
The film version of Shakespeare's King Lear, which was first produced at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre, directed by Richard Eyre.
Performance | Richard II
A production of the National Theatre’s 1995 production of Richard II directed by Deborah Warner with Fiona Shaw in the title role. It was re-staged ...
Performance | Measure for Measure
David Thacker's 1994 adaptation of Shakespeare's play which has been set in the near future. This was the first Shakespeare production made...
The Hollow Crown | Richard II
Shakespeare adaptation starring Ben Whishaw. King Richard is called upon to settle a dispute between his cousin Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mo...
The Hollow Crown | Henry IV Part I
When King Henry is threatened by rebellion led by Hotspur, his dissolute son Prince Hal must join him to defeat the rebels and fight Hotsp...
The Hollow Crown | Henry IV Part II
In the aftermath of the Battle of Shrewsbury, Northumberland learns of the death of his son. The Lord Chief Justice attempts to separate ...
The Hollow Crown | Henry V
Henry V has settled onto the throne and has the makings of a fine king when the French ambassador brings a challenge from the Dauphin. Inspired by...
The Hollow Crown | The Wars of the Roses: Henry VI Part I
Drama based on Shakespeare's history play. Henry VI Part I. With Henry V dead and against the backdrop of wars in F...
The Hollow Crown | The Wars of the Roses: Henry VI Part II
After victory at the Battle of St Albans, the Yorkists force King Henry VI and the Lancastrians to surrender their...
The Hollow Crown | The Wars of the Roses: Richard III
In his quest for the throne, Richard will stop at nothing - not even murder.
The BBC Television Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream
A 1981 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic comedy play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Televisi...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | All's Well That Ends Well
A 1981 version of the classic Shakespeare "problem comedy". The Countess of Rousillon's son, Bertram prepares to l...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra
The first part of a 1981 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Te...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | As You Like It
Classic comedy by William Shakespeare about the travails of lovers Rosalind and Orlando, who become entangled in a beguiling ...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Cymbeline
A 1983 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakespear...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The first part of a 1980 televised production of the classic Shakespeare tragedy play, shot entirely in a studio.
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Henry IV
A 1979 BBC production of Shakespeare's history play which features the opportunistic miscreant, Sir John Falstaff. This was broadca...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Henry IV Part II
A 1979 BBC production of Shakespeare's history play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakespeare p...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Henry V
A 1979 BBC production of Shakespeare's history play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakespeare project an...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Henry VI
A 1983 BBC television presentation of the first part of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Henry V is dead and war continues with France. The ...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Henry VI Part II
A 1983 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's Henry VI Part II. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Televis...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Henry VI Part III
A 1983 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's Henry VI Part III. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, aspiring to the crown,...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Henry VIII
A 1979 BBC production of Shakespeare's history play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakespeare project...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Julius Caesar
A 1979 BBC production of Shakespeare's great political thriller which tells the story of the conspiracy against Caesar, his as...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | King Lear
The first part of a 1982 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television S...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | King Lear - Part 2
The second part of a 1982 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Te...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Love's Labour's Lost
A 1985 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's classic comedy play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC ...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Macbeth
A 1983 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakespeare pr...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Measure for Measure
A 1979 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic comedy which occasionally veers into more troublesome territory, as the c...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing
A 1984 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's classic comedy play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BB...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Othello
A 1981 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakespeare project. T...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Pericles, Prince of Tyre
A 1984 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television ...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Richard II
A 1978 BBC production of the classic Shakespeare story of King Richard II. This was the second broadcast of the 37-play BBC Telev...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet
A 1978 BBC production of the classic Shakespeare tragic tale of two star-crossed lovers in 14th-century Verona. This was th...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | The Comedy of Errors
A 1983 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's early comedy play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Te...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | The Life and Death of King John
A 1984 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's history play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play ...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice
A 1980 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakesp...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor
A 1982 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Sh...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew
A 1980 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakes...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | The Tempest
A 1980 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakespeare project.
The BBC Television Shakespeare | The Tragedy of Coriolanus
A 1983 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Te...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | The Tragedy of Richard III
A 1983 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's Richard III. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Te...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | The Two Gentlemen of Verona
A 1983 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's rarely performed comedy play. This was broadcast as part of ...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | The Winter's Tale
A 1981 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakespeare ...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Timon of Athens
A 1981 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television Shakespeare pr...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus
A 1985 BBC television presentation of Shakespeare's classic tragic play. This was the last broadcast in the 37-play BBC Tel...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida
A 1981 BBC production of Shakespeare's classic satire on the theme of love and war. This was broadcast as part of the 3...
The BBC Television Shakespeare | Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
A 1980 BBC production of Shakespeare's comedy play. This was broadcast as part of the 37-play BBC Television...
English File: Why Shakespeare? | Romeo and Juliet
Four actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company tackle two famous scenes from two famous plays - the balcony scene from Rome...
English File: Why Shakespeare? | Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is called a comedy, while Macbeth is a tragedy - so how do actors try to get laughs or make the plays work their...
GCSE Bitesize | English - Macbeth
An exam revision programme that looks at the GCSE English curriculum focusing on Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
GCSE Bitesize | English - Romeo and Juliet
An exam revision programme that looks at the GCSE English curriculum focusing on Romeo and Juliet.
GCSE Bitesize | Shakespeare - Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice
Comedy video shorts presenting the characters, plot and themes from Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. Presen...
GCSE Bitesize: English Literature | Romeo and Juliet (2009)
A compilation of video shorts to support students studying Romeo and Juliet, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Lord of the F...
Open University | Antony and Cleopatra - Workshop
The workshop examines one of the many short, crowded scenes of the play, in which Antony takes his leave of Cleopatra befor...
Open University | The Authentick and Ironical Historie of Henry V
This programme looks for the real King Henry V in Medieval history, on the Shakespearean stage and in Olivi...
Open University | The Learning Zone - The Sonnet
A schools programme which looks at the form and content of a selection of sonnets from William Wordsworth, Philip Sidney, Wi...
Imagine... | Being Hamlet
Alan Yentob follows Welsh actor Wayne Cater and three other Hamlet hopefuls as they prepare for a Shakespeare role that has become a rite of passag...
Omnibus | Living Shakespeare - A Year with the RSC
This year has been the Royal Shakespeare Company's 30th season, and the first under its new artistic director, Adrian Nobl...
The Best Bottoms in the Land | Shakespeare's Dream in London
Following six amateur actors as they join the Royal Shakespeare Company in performing A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
Living Shakespeare
All the world really is a stage as the BBC World Service presents a series of stories about Shakespeare's impact across the globe.
Jonathan Miller Directs | The Making of Antony and Cleopatra
A portrait of Jonathan Miller as he directs Antony and Cleopatra in the BBC Television Shakespeare series. This ...
HARDtalk | Gregory Doran
Why does Shakespeare still captivate us? Why do we continue to make much ado about Shakespeare? Stephen Sackur interviews Gregory Doran, artistic di...
Lenny and Will | Act One
Starting at the recreated Globe Theatre, Lenny Henry takes a journey of discovery through the plays he's now passionate about to find out why we so ...
Hamlet Revisited
An exploration of Shakespeare's most famous character Hamlet with excerpts of various screen interpretations of the character. The programme includes clips...
A Timewatch Guide | S1E2: Cleopatra
Using the BBC film archives, historian Vanessa Collinridge explores how our view of Cleopatra has changed and evolved over the years - fr...
Artsnight 2016 | The Year of King Lear
With five major productions of Shakespeare's King Lear taking place across 2016, this film looks at why Lear resonates so deeply with ...
Behind the Scenes | Afro-Futurist Shakespeare
Carnival colours and Afro beats herald the return of live audiences to the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon after Covid restrictions ...
British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley | 1: The Wars of the Roses
Lucy Worsley shows how Henry VII and his historians fabricated the scale of the Wars of the Roses...
Changing Stages | 1: Shakespeare
The first in a new six-part series in which Richard Eyre gives his personal view of the story of theatre over the last 100 years. This week,...
Cleopatra and Me: In Search of a Lost Queen
Was Cleopatra a seductress or a great politician? Shakespeare scholar Dr Islam Issa's exploration of why history and literature h...
Daytime on Two | General Studies: Updating Shakespeare
Two theatre directors, John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Michael Bogdanov of the National Theatre, disc...
Archive on 4 | Playing The Dane
Archive based programme, on the topic of the role of Hamlet, presented by Michael Sheen and produced by Emma Harding
Free Thinking | Lady Macbeth
Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuler, Michelle Assay and New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday discuss characters in Shakespeare's Sc...
Free Thinking | Shakespeare's Women
As the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust embarks on a year of events marking the 'women who made Shakespeare', Anne McElvoy hears about new re...
Free Thinking | What does Global Shakespeare Mean?
Philip Dodd is joined by academic Preti Taneja, Professor David Schalkwyk, director Dominic Dromgoole and Professor Sonia ...
Love, Tyranny and Madness
A documentary about King Lear, and how Shakespeare took a well known fairy tale and turned it into a dark play about family relationships.
Much Ado About Comedy
Matt Lucas explores Shakespeare's comedies and asks what influence the playwright has had on modern-day humour, with contributions from some of the UKs...
Shakespeare's Restless World
Documentary about Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences in Shakespeare's time, presented by Neil MacGregor as part of Shakespeare Season. He looks ...
Simon Schama's Shakespeare | 1: This England
Simon Schama argues that it is impossible to understand how Shakespeare came to belong 'to all time' without understanding just ...
Lady Macbeth (2016)
Hunky Dory
West Side Story (1961)
Kiss Me Kate (1964)
All Is True (2018)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
15-Minute Hamlet
A Waste of Shame
And Calm of Mind
Bill (2017)
Blast TV | Othello Retold
Cunk On Shakespeare
Doctor Who | The Shakespeare Code
Elsinore | S1
Felicity Kendal's Indian Shakespeare Quest
Friday Drama | The Late Mr Shakespeare
Free Thinking | Shakespeare as inspiration
Growing Up Downs
Hamlet 2
Hamlet, Part 2
Horrible Histories | S4E5 - Shakespeare Rap
Horrible Histories Specials | Sensational Shakespeare
Macbeth Remixed
Marrying Mum and Dad | Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990)
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Shakespeare's Fire by Glyn Maxwell
Shakespeare's Happy Endings
Upstart Crow | S1
Shakespeare In Perspective | A Midsummer Night's Dream
Dr Roy Strong gives his personal view of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He visits Hatfield House to introduce the play whi...
Shakespeare In Perspective | All's Well That Ends Well
Barry Took offers a personal view of Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well.
Shakespeare In Perspective | Antony and Cleopatra
Anna Raeburn offers her personal view of this epic love story in which everything is sacrificed to an obsessive passion. An...
Shakespeare In Perspective | As You Like It
Brigid Brophy offers a personal view of the comedy As You Like It which was originally an Elizabethan 'best seller'.
Shakespeare In Perspective | Coriolanus
General Sir John Hackett gives an introduction to Shakespeare's Coriolanus which portrays a soldier hero who is destroyed by his unyi...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Cymbeline
In his 'personal view' playwright Dennis Potter sees the world of Cymbeline as 'the extravagant imperious, improbable, tender shocking...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Hamlet
Clive James offers a personal view of Shakespeare's play, 'the greatest in the English language', whose hero 'incarnates the dignity of h...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Henry IV Part I
George Melly offers a personal view of the play Henry IV Part I, and introduces Sir John Falstaff whom he regards as Shakespeare...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Henry IV Part II
Fred Emery offers a personal view of the play Henry IV Part II. He regards Shakespeare as 'the master of all political journali...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Henry V
Lord Chalfont offers a personal view of the play Henry V; he describes the epic military campaign on which the play is based and assesse...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Henry VI Part I
Michael Wood sets the scene for the first play in this historical trilogy telling of the death of heroes, loss of Empire and the...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Henry VI Part II
Michael Wood presents a personal view of Henry VI Part II. He questions the portrayal of Henry as 'a naive, weak but moral man ...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Henry VI Part III
Michael Wood presents a personal view of Henry VI Part III. He traces the background to the play which ends with the depositio...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Henry VIII
Anthony Burgess sets Shakespeare in perspective by looking at the circumstances which surrounded the first public performance of Shak...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Julius Caesar
Jonathan Dimbleby places Shakespeare in Perspective with a personal view of the play he describes as a 'chillingly precise metapho...
Shakespeare In Perspective | King John
Sir Peter Parker visits the ruins of Minster Lovell Hall to present his personal view of the play which he describes as a 'blood-curdl...
Shakespeare In Perspective | King Lear
In his personal view, Professor Frank Kermode suggests that 'one purpose of tragedy may be to make us look steadily at things we prefe...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Love's Labour's Lost
Novelist Emma Tennant gives her personal view of Love's Labour's Lost which centres on four studious young men and their at...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Macbeth
Crime writer Julian Symons offers his personal view of the play which he believes illustrates a classic case of the psychological condit...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Measure for Measure
John Mortimer offers a personal view of the play as he visits the Inns of Court to place Shakespeare in Perspective and disc...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Much Ado about Nothing
Writer Eleanor Bron gives her personal view of Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing. In her introduction to the play...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Othello
Novelist Susan Hill offers her personal view of a play which illustrates one of Shakespeare's most obsessive themes: the conflict betwee...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Pericles
Poet P J Kavanagh offers his personal view of Shakespeare's play, which tells the story of a good man whose patient acceptance of life'...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Richard II
Paul Johnson offers a personal view of the play which, when produced in 1601, threatened the throne of England. The programme include...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Romeo and Juliet
Germaine Greer sets the scene for the televised production of Romeo and Juliet. To place Shakespeare In Perspective she travels...
Shakespeare In Perspective | A Comedy of Errors
Comedian Roy Hudd illustrates some of the timeless gags and comic routines that sharpen this comedy of mistaken identities. ...
Shakespeare In Perspective | The Merchant of Venice
Wolf Mankowitz gives a personal view of The Merchant of Venice which, 'more than any other in the English language, estab...
Shakespeare In Perspective | The Merry Wives of Windsor
Journalist Jilly Cooper presents a personal view of the play The Merry Wives of Windsor which she regards as 'a sort ...
Shakespeare In Perspective | The Taming of the Shrew
Penelope Mortimer, author of bestselling novel 'The Pumpkin Eater' offers her personal view of the 'wittie and pleasant ...
Shakespeare In Perspective | The Tempest
Laurens van der Post offers a personal view of the play The Tempest which he describes as profoundly autobiographical - an explorati...
Shakespeare In Perspective | The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Broadcaster Russell Davies introduces the production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, a comedy of young love which of...
Shakespeare In Perspective | The Winter's Tale
Stephen Spender offers a personal view of Shakespeare's 'The Winter's Tale'.
Shakespeare In Perspective | Timon of Athens
Malcolm Muggeridge presents his personal view of Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens.
Shakespeare In Perspective | Titus Andronicus
Anthony Clare offers his personal view of the play which portrays the family as 'the source of all our strengths, the genesis o...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Troilus and Cressida
Sir David Hunt offers his personal view of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida which he sees as a savage satire on war and a...
Shakespeare In Perspective | Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
David Jones offers a personal view of the play Twelfth Night, which he describes as 'full of fun and high spirit...
The Learning Zone | The Merchant of Venice
Schools programme on The Merchant of Venice.
Shakespeare Unlocked | A Midsummer Night's Dream
Key scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream are explored through performance, to unlock the meaning of language and developmen...
Shakespeare Unlocked | Julius Caesar
Shakespeare's most popular and widely studied plays are unlocked by actors and directors at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Three key sce...
Shakespeare Unlocked | Macbeth
Shakespeare's most popular and widely studied plays are unlocked by actors and directors at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Key scenes from Mac...
The Learning Zone | Film Education: Screening Shakespeare
A late night film education programme looking at film makers' fascination with Shakespeare.
The Learning Zone | Film Education: Screening Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Transplanting Shakespeare's star crossed lovers to the gun-obsessed energy of Verona Beach. The ...
English File | The Globe
A compilation secondary schools programme focusing on a stunning recreation of what it was like to experience Shakespeare's work in the famous Globe...
The Learning Zone | GCSE Bitesize Revision: English: 1: Macbeth
An exam revision programme that looks at the GCSE English curriculum. This episode looks at Shakespeare's Mac...
The Learning Zone | Shakespeare: From Stage To Screen
A behind-the-scenes look at creating a TV programme from a stage play, following the filming of the Royal Shakespeare C...
The Learning Zone | Shakespeare: From Page To Stage
Actors and key talent from the Royal Shakespeare Company discuss the choices they make when staging Hamlet.
The Learning Zone | Shakespeare: The Play's The Thing
Educational documentary with actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company and theatre director Greg Doran looking behind t...
Shakespeare Shorts | A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2
Television programme for schools featuring television actors not usually associated with Shakespeare in scen...
Shakespeare Shorts | Julius Caesar: Act III, Scene 1
Television programme for schools featuring television actors not usually associated with Shakespeare in scenes from Juli...
Shakespeare Shorts | Twelfth Night: Act II, Scene 5
Television programme for schools featuring television actors not usually associated with Shakespeare in scenes from Twelf...
Shakespeare Shorts | Romeo and Juliet: Act II, Scene 5
Television programme for schools featuring television actors not usually associated with Shakespeare in scenes from Ro...
Shakespeare Shorts | Macbeth in the future
Television programme for schools featuring television actors not usually associated with Shakespeare in scenes from Macbeth. They ...
Shakespeare Shorts | Playing Macbeth: Act I, Scenes 1 and 3
Each programme in this series takes a scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this programme they are Act 1, Scenes ...
Shakespeare Shorts | Sanity and Insanity - Playing Lady Macbeth
Each programme in this series takes scenes from Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this programme they are Act 5, Scen...
Shakespeare Shorts | The supernatural in Macbeth Act III, Scene 4
Each programme in this series takes a scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this programme it is Act 3, Scen...
BBC Teach Live Lessons | Shakespeare
This Live Lesson brings together Horrible Histories Tom Stourton and Rhys Stevenson to find out how the Tudor era affected The Bard's wr...
Bitesize Daily: 5-7 Years: English | Shakespeare
Shakespeare, cities and Ella Bella Ballerina in Book Club.
Bitesize Daily: 5-7 Years: English | Magical Forests
Magical forests in Shakespeare and discovering the super-you.
Bitesize Daily: 7-9 Years: English | A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare, cities, rivers and A Midsummer Night's Dream in Book Club.
Bitesize Daily: 9-11 Years: English | Shakespeare
Shakespeare, wildlife in cities and Macbeth.
Bitesize Daily: 9-11 Years: English | Magic
Magic in Shakespeare and discovering our character strengths.
CBeebies Presents | Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare is back on CBeebies with an adaptation of one of his most famous plays, Romeo and Juliet. With the help of a host of...
CBeebies Presents | The Tempest
A magic island, a stormy shipwreck and a royal mystery in CBeebies The Tempest!
CBeebies Presents | A Midsummer Night's Dream
Children's drama: Cook and Line from Swashbuckle help William Shakespeare put on a magical production of A Midsummer Night's Dr...
Children's historical comedy sketch programme: a special episode looking at the life and times of William Shakespeare, ...
How to be Epic @ Shakespeare
Children's programme narrated by Cel Spellman: marking 400 years since the death of the world's greatest playwright, the programme presents a se...
i.am.will Shakespeare
Education programme: Ricky Boleto and Leah Gooding go in search of William Shakespeare. They find out about Shakespeare's early life in Stratford-upon-...
Magic Hands | A Midsummer Night's Dream - Fabulous Fairies
Poetry programme for pre-school children: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. To celebrate the 400-y...
Magic Hands | As You Like It - All the World's a Stage
Pre-school children's arts and animated disability programme: to celebrate the 400-year legacy of Shakespeare, Ashley ...
Magic Hands | Romeo and Juliet - Fighting Families
Children's sign language poetry series: to celebrate the 400-year legacy of William Shakespeare, Donna and Simon discover ...
Magic Hands | The Tempest - A Magical Storm
Pre-school children's arts and animated disability programme: The Tempest by William Shakespeare. To celebrate the 400-year legac...
Magic Hands | Twelfth Night - Identical Twins?
Pre-school children's arts and animated disability programme: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. To celebrate the 400th ann...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S1E1: A Midsummer Night's Dream
A night of madness in a haunted wood - four young victims of unrequited love stumble about while six workme...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S1E2: The Tempest
The Tempest presented in puppet animation with text abridged by Leon Garfield; with the voices of Martin Jarvis, Timothy ...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S1E3: Macbeth
Soviet animation of the famous tragedy, with the voices of Alec McCowen, Brian Cox, Zoe Wanamaker, Clive Merrison, Patrick Br...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S1E4: Romeo and Juliet
An animated version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S1E5: Hamlet
Animated version of the Bard's much-quoted tragedy about the indecisive Prince of Denmark. With the voices of Nicholas Farrell...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S1E6: Twelfth Night
Duke Orsino falls in love with the Countess Olivia, who is in mourning for a dead brother and has vowed to shut herself...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S2E1: Richard III
The return of the award-winning team who produced 'Hamlet'. Antony Sher provides the voice of Shakespeare's darkest villa...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S2E2: The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare's witty and fast-moving comic battle of the sexes is given a fresh airing in puppet animation. He...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S2E3: As You Like It
The sunniest of the Bard's plays, 'As You Like It' tells of a group of courtiers who escape to the Forest of Arden, me...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S2E4: Julius Caesar
This animated version of 'Julius Caesar' unfolds a compelling story of personal power versus the good of the state. Jos...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S2E5: The Winter's Tale
Sculptured Russian puppets perform the powerful and enchanting story, full of regal and rustic characters. King Leo...
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | S2E6: Othello
Animated Shakespeare tale of Othello. In the last in the series the most dramatic study of jealousy and its tragic effects ar...
A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1: Welcome to Athens
We meet our storyteller Puck, and learn about the impending marriage of Duke Theseus and Queen Hippolyta.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2021) | 2: The Rehearsal
We meet the Mechanicals, a hapless group of amateur actors rehearsing their play for the forthcoming marriage celebrations.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2021) | 3: Into the Woods
Oberon and Titania are arguing in the woods, and Puck is instructed to find a magic flower.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2021) | 4: The Wrong Athenian
Oberon uses the magic flower on Titania, but Puck uses it on the wrong Athenian.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2021) | 5: Oberon's Revenge
Titania falls in love with Bottom transformed into a donkey, and Oberon discovers Puck's mistake.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2021) | 6: The Lovers' Quarrel
Demetrius and Lysander compete for Helena's love, and Hermia starts a fight.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2021) | 7: Lifting the Fog
Puck sends the lovers to sleep, while Oberon releases Titania from the spell.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2021) | 8: A Wedding Play
The lovers return to Athens for a triple wedding, and Bottom and his friends perform their play.
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