BBC Television Shakespeare
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The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television. Transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985, the series spanned seven seasons and thirty-seven episodes.
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Series facts
Origins
Shakespeare on the BBC
Funding
Rejected plans
Realism
UK publicity
US publicity
Scheduling
Early restrictions
Seasons 1 and 2 (Cedric Messina, producer)
Seasons 3 and 4 (Jonathan Miller, producer)
Reception
''Romeo and Juliet''
Behind the scenes
''King Richard the Second''
''As You Like It''
''Julius Caesar''
''Measure for Measure''
''The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight''
''The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, with the life and death of Henry surnamed Hotspur''
''The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth containing his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift''
''The Life of Henry the Fift''
''Twelfth Night''
''The Tempest''
''Hamlet, Prince of Denmark''
''The Taming of the Shrew''
''The Merchant of Venice''
''All's Well That Ends Well''
''The Winter's Tale''
''Timon of Athens''
''Antony and Cleopatra''
''Othello''
''Troilus and Cressida''
''A Midsummer Night's Dream''
''King Lear''
''The Merry Wives of Windsor''
''The First Part of Henry the Sixt''
''The Second Part of Henry the Sixt''
''The Third Part of Henry the Sixt''
''The Tragedy of Richard III''
''Cymbeline''
''Macbeth''
''The Comedy of Errors''
''The Two Gentlemen of Verona''
''The Tragedy of Coriolanus''
''The Life and Death of King John''
''Pericles, Prince of Tyre''
''Much Ado About Nothing''
''Love's Labour's Lost''
''Titus Andronicus''
Omissions and changes