Season 2
Episodes
1. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur
1979-12-09
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
1979-12-16
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
1979-12-23
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
1980-01-06
BBC televisation of the classic comedy of mistaken identities by William Shakespeare.
5. The Tempest
1980-02-27
William Shakespeare's swansong play about the nature of revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness.
6. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1980-05-25
Shakespeare's classic tale of betrayal, murder and revenge, set in Elsinore Castle in Denmark.