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The BBC Television Shakespeare
The BBC Television Shakespeare: Season 2

Air Date

December 9, 1979

Episodes

6 episodes

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Season 2

Episodes

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

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

December 9, 1979
147 min

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.

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

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

December 16, 1979
150 min

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.

The Life of Henry the Fift

3. The Life of Henry the Fift

December 23, 1979
163 min

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.

Twelfth Night

4. Twelfth Night

January 6, 1980
128 min

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

The Tempest

5. The Tempest

February 27, 1980
124 min

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

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

6. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

May 25, 1980
214 min

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

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