The BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 2

First aired: 12/9/1979 6 episodes

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Episodes

1. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur

Aired: 12/9/1979

Televisation of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, featuring the opportunistic miscreant, Sir John Falstaff. Second play in a tetralogy of history plays by William Shakespeare, along with Richard II, Henry IV, Part II, and Henry V.

2. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift

Aired: 12/16/1979

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.

3. The Life of Henry the Fift

Aired: 12/23/1979

Classic play by William Shakespeare about Henry V, the monarch he admired above all others. Part of a tetralogy of history plays by Shakespeare, along with Richard II, Henry IV, Part I, and Henry IV, Part II.

4. Twelfth Night

Aired: 1/6/1980

BBC televisation of the classic comedy of mistaken identities by William Shakespeare.

5. The Tempest

Aired: 2/27/1980

William Shakespeare's swansong play about the nature of revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness.

6. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Aired: 5/25/1980

Shakespeare's classic tale of betrayal, murder and revenge, set in Elsinore Castle in Denmark.