Shakespeare Solos

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  • Premiered: Feb 2016
  • Episodes: 17
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Season 1
1x1
Hamlet (Adrian Lester)
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 01, 2016
Adrian Lester performs Hamlet’s soliloquy from act III, scene 1, in which the prince reflects on mortality and considers taking his own life.
1x2
Romeo and Juliet (Joanna Vanderham)
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 01, 2016
Joanna Vanderham speaks Juliet’s monologue from the balcony scene in which she insists that her devotion to Romeo is true even if it has been a whirlwind romance.
1x3
King Lear (Roger Allam)
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Air date
Feb 01, 2016
Roger Allam plays Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. During a symbolic storm, the ageing king curses the weather and his daughters, and laments his frailty.
1x4
Othello (Eileen Atkins)
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 01, 2016
Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia’s lines from Othello, act IV scene 3. Emilia, Iago’s wife, counsels Desdemona on marriage and fidelity.
1x5
Richard III (David Morrissey)
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Air date
Feb 01, 2016
David Morrissey speaks the play’s opening lines in which the scheming Richard lays out his plan to turn his brothers, the Duke of Clarence and King Edward IV, against each other.
1x6 Season finale
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Ayesha Dharker)
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Air date
Feb 01, 2016
Ayesha Dharker plays Titania, queen of the fairies, who has quarrelled with Oberon. As the pair control the weather, their argument leads to a vision of nature’s chaos.

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