The BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 6

The BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 6

First aired: 7/10/1983 5 episodes
← Back to The BBC Television Shakespeare

Episodes

Episode 1

1. Cymbeline

Aired: 7/10/1983

Classic play by William Shakespeare based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus.

Episode 2

2. Macbeth

Aired: 11/5/1983

Classic tragedy by William Shakespeare about how ambition can corrupt. Three witches foresee a great future for Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis.

Episode 3

3. The Comedy of Errors

Aired: 12/24/1983

Comical misunderstandings arise when two sets of twins, each unaware of their other halves' existence, inadvertently end up in the same town.

Episode 4

4. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Aired: 12/27/1983

Comedy. The romantic complications of various residents of Renaissance Italy, notably the two young gentlemen Proteus and Valentine.

Episode 5

5. The Tragedy of Coriolanus

Aired: 4/21/1984

Classic tragedy chronicling the life of the mighty warrior, Caius Marcius Coriolanus. Although a leader among men on the battlefield, Coriolanus finds himself comprehensively out-manoeuvred when he turns to politics.