Season 5
Episodes
1. King Lear
1982-09-19
Classic play by William Shakespeare about an ageing King who decides to divide his Kingdom between his three daughters.
2. The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982-12-28
Comedy by William Shakespeare; the only one of his plays set in England in his own time. The roguish Sir John Falstaff attempts to seduce both Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, but finds both women are more than a match for him.
3. The First Part of Henry the Sixt
1983-01-02
A television presentation of the first part of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Henry V is dead and war continues with France. The Wars of the Roses are threatening and the Duke of York taunts the Earl of Somerset.
4. The Second Part of Henry the Sixt
1983-01-09
The BBC's screen production of William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II.
5. The Third Part of Henry the Sixt
1983-01-16
The BBC Production of William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part III. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, aspiring to usurp the English crown plots to murder the deposed king in this concluding part of the Henry VI trilogy.
6. The Tragedy of Richard III
1983-01-23
The rise and fall of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, whose murderous Machiavellian schemes help him to the throne of England, but make him far too many enemies along the way.
7. The Tragedy of Richard III
1983-01-23
The rise and fall of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, whose murderous Machiavellian schemes help him to the throne of England, but make him far too many enemies along the way.