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—now King Henry IV—is having an unquiet reign. His personal disquiet at the murder of his predecessor Richard II would be solved by a crusade to the Holy Land, but .. 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
Classic play by William Shakespeare, starring Jon Finch and Anthony Quayle. This is the third play in a tetralogy of history plays by William Shakespeare, along with Richard II, Henry IV, Part I, and Henry V.
2x3
The Life of Henry the Fift
Episode overview
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 is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria and she comes ashore with the help of a captain. She loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes to be dead. Disguising .. show full overview
2x5
The Tempest
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 27, 1980
The Magician, Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, and his daughter, Miranda, have been stranded for twelve years on an island after Prospero's jealous brother Antonio (aided by Alonso, the .. show full overview
2x6 Season finale
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 27, 1980
A son avenges his father's murder, but his madness and indecision take its toll on everyone.

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