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The BBC Television Shakespeare
The BBC Television Shakespeare: Season 6

Air Date

July 10, 1983

Episodes

5 episodes

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Season 6

Episodes

Cymbeline

1. Cymbeline

July 10, 1983
174 min

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

Macbeth

2. Macbeth

November 5, 1983
147 min

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

The Comedy of Errors

3. The Comedy of Errors

December 24, 1983
109 min

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

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

4. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

December 27, 1983
136 min

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

The Tragedy of Coriolanus

5. The Tragedy of Coriolanus

April 21, 1984
145 min

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.

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