BBC Television Shakespeare

  • Premiered: Dec 1978
  • Episodes: 37
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Unknown
  • Drama

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Season 2
2x1
The First Part of King Henry the Fourth with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 09, 1979
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the .. show full overview
2x2
The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 16, 1979
King Henry's health is failing as a second rebellion against his reign threatens to surface. Intent on securing his legacy, he is uncertain that his son Hal is a worthy heir, believing .. show full overview
2x3
The Life of Henry the Fift
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Air date
Dec 23, 1979
Insulted by the Dauphin, the newly-crowned Henry V gathers his troops for war. But Henry must convince his men that he has left his wild days behind, and prove himself as a leader. Henry .. show full overview
2x4
Twelfth Night
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 06, 1980
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. .. show full overview
2x5
The Tempest
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 27, 1980
Prospero, the true Duke of Milan, is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Raising a storm to bring his brother .. show full overview
2x6 Season finale
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Air date
Feb 27, 1980
Hamlet returns home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to .. show full overview

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