The BBC Television Shakespeare was a set of television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985.

Introduction
Origins

　 The concept for the series originated in 1976 with Cedric Messina, a veteran BBC producer, who was on-location at Glamis Castle in Angus, Scotland shooting J.M. Barrie's The Little Minister for the BBC Play of the Month series. During filming, it occurred to Messina that the castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It for the series. By the time he had returned to London, however,the concept had grown considerably, and Messina now envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic work of Shakespeare; a series which would adapt all thirty-seven of Shakespeare's plays.[2]
　At first, Messina envisioned the series as having six seasons of six episodes each, with the plan being to adapt the three Henry VI plays into a two-part episode. This idea was soon rejected however, as it was felt to be an unacceptable compromise, and it was decided to simply have one season with seven episodes. Initially, Messina also wanted to shoot the plays in chronological order of how they were written, but this was rejected because it was felt that doing so would necessitate the series beginning with a run of relatively little known plays.
　Another early concept of Messina's which had to be rejected was the idea of shooting the eight sequential history plays ( Richard II,Henry IV, Part 1,Henry IV, Part 2,Henry V,Henry VI, Part 1,Henry VI, Part 2，Henry VI, Part 3 and Richard III) in chronological order of the events they depict, with linked casting and the same director for all eight adaptations (David Giles. During the early planning stages for Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1 however, the plan for linked casting fell apart when it was discovered that although Jon Finch (Henry Bolingbroke in Richard II) could return as Henry IV, Jeremy Bulloch as Henry 'Hotspur' Percy and David Swift as the Earl of Northumberland were unable to do so, and the parts had to be recast, thus undermining the concept of shooting the plays as one sequence. Ultimately,during the first season, Richard II, although still directed by Giles, was treated as a stand-alone piece, whilst Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V (all also directed by Giles) were treated as a trilogy during the second season, with linked casting between them. The second four plays were then directed by Jane Howell during the fifth season as one unit, with linked casting and a common set.

Shakespeare on the BBC

The BBC had screened many Shakespearean adaptations before, but never on this scale. The first broadcast was on the afternoon of February 5, 1937; an eleven-minute scene from As You Like It, directed by Robert Atkins with Margaretta Scott as Rosalind and Ion Swinley as Orlando. Later that evening, a fourteen-minute segment from the wooing scene of Henry V was screened, directed by George More O'Ferrall and starring Henry Oscar as Henry and Yvonne Arnaud as Katherine.[3] O'Ferrall would oversee numerous productions of Shakespeare over the course of 1937[4]; a ten-minute excerpt from Mark Antony's funeral speech in Julius Caesar, starring Henry Oscar (February 11); a ten-minute excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing with Henry Oscar as Benedick and Margaretta Scott as Beatrice (also February 11);a twenty-five minute extract from Macbeth, with Henry Oscar as Macbeth and Margaret Rawlings as Lady Macbeth (March 25); a thirty-minute extract from Twelfth Night, with John Wyse as Orsino and Greer Garson as Olivia (May 14); and a sixty seven-minute extract from Othello starring Baliol Holloway as Othello, D.A. Clarke-Smith as Iago and Celia Johnson as Desdemona. O’Ferrall also produced a 1938 broadcast of a live thirty-minute extract from an Old Vic production ofMacbeth, directed by Michel Saint-Denis and starring Laurence Olivier and Judith Anderson. 1938 also saw the first full-length broadcast of a Shakespeare play; Dallas Bower's modern dress production of Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre starring Ernest Milton as Caesar and D.A. Clark-Smith as Mark Antony. These transmissions came to an end with the onset of war in 1939 and none of them survive now. After the war, Shakespearean adaptations were screened less frequently, although there were numerous live transmissions of actual plays; for example, a one hundred-minute abridged version of Orson Welles legendary modern dress Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, starring Welles himself; a twenty five-minute extract from Stephen Thomas' Regent's Park roduction of A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring Alexander Knox as Oberon and Tea Holme as Titiana; and a one hundred and forty-minute version of Dallas Bower's production ofThe Tempest, with Peggy Ashcroft as Miranda and John Abbott as Prospero. In 1948, George More O'Ferrall directed and produced a made-for-TV two-part adaptation of Hamlet with John Byron as Hamlet, Sebastian Shaw as Claudius, Margaret Rawlings as Gertrude and

There were also three multi-part Shakespearean adaptations shown during the 1950s and 1960s. The first was The Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff (1959). Produced and directed by Ronald Eyre and starring Roger Livesey as Falstaff, the series took all of the Falstaff scenes from the Henry IV plays and The Merry Wives of Windsor and adapted them into seven half-hour episodes. The second was An Age of Kings (1960). Produced by Peter Dews and directed by Michael Hayes, the show comprised fifteen one-hour episodes which adapted all eight of Shakespeare's sequential history plays. The third was the Peter Dews produced The Spread of the Eagle (1963), which featured nine one-hour episodes adapting, in chronological order of the real life events, Criolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. However, The Spread of the Eagle was not a huge success, and afterwards, the BBC returned to smaller screenings with less financial risk.[5] In 64, for example, the John Barton adaptation of the three Henry VI plays and Richard III into a three-parter called The Wars of the Roses by the Royal Shakespeare Company was aired over a four-week period. Another 1964 production was Hamlet at Elsinore, directed by Philip Saville and produced by Peter Luke, the adaptation starred Christopher Plummer as Hamlet, Robert Shaw as Claudius, Michael Caine as Horatio and Donald Sutherland as Fortinbras. The entire play was shot on-location in Denmark at the real Elsinore Castle. Additionally, The Play of the Month series screened several Shakespearian adaptations over the years; Romeo and Juliet (1967), The Tempest (1968), Julius Caesar (1969), Macbeth (1970), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1971), The Merchant of Venice (1972), Love's Labour's Lost (1974) and King Lear (1975).

1.3 Production

As such, the BBC Television Shakespeare project was the most ambitious engagement with Shakespeare ever undertaken by either a television or film production company. So large was the project that the BBC couldn't finance it alone, and required an American partner who would guarantee access to the United States market, deemed essential for the series to recoup its costs. Financing took over two years to secure, with Time-Life acting as the series' largest underwriter. Later, Exxon, Metropolitan Life and Morgan Guaranty Trust also provided financing. However, because they had invested so much in the project, the backers were able to suggest terms.

The most important of these was that the productions must be traditional interpretations of the plays set in either Shakespeare's own time (1564 to 1616) or in the historical period of the events depicted (such as ancient Rome for Julius Caesar, or c1400 for Richard II etc). A two and a half hour maximum running time was also designated, but this particular restriction was swiftly jettisoned when it became clear that the major tragedies in particular would have suffer severely if truncated too heavily. The restriction regarding conservative interpretations however was non-negotiable. The financiers were primarily concerned with ratings, and the restrictions worked to this end, ensuring the plays had "maximum acceptability to the widest possible audience."^[6] Partly because of this, although later productions under Messina's successors, Jonathan Miller and Shaun Sutton, would be more experimental, in its early years, the series developed a reputation for being overly conventional, and as such,later in the series, when Miller tried to persuade high-calibre directors such as Peter Brook, Ingmar Bergman, William Gaskill and John Dexter to direct adaptations, he was unsuccessful.^[7]

All productions were shot on video, with multiple cameras, in Studio 1 at the BBC Television Centre studios, with the exception of two first season episodes, As You Like It and Henry VIII, which were shot on location. Also worth noting is that composerWilliam Walton, who had scored Olivier's three Shakespearean films (Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III) came out of retirement to write the theme music for the show.

During Messina's tenure as producer (seasons one and two), as per the financiers' restrictions, the adaptations tended to be conservative, but when Jonathan Miller took over at the start of season three, he revamped things. Messina had favoured a broadly 'realistic' approach which worked to simplify the texts for audiences unfamiliar with Shakespeare, but Miller was against any kind of 'dumbing down'. He had came from "outside the BBC's tradition of painstaking research and accurate historical verisimilitude. Messina's approach had treated the plays in realistic terms as a series of events which had once taken place somewhere and which could be literally represented on screen. Miller, however, saw them as products of a creative imagination, artefacts in their own right, to be realised in production using the visual and conceptual materials of their own historical period. This led to a major reappraisal of the original production guidelines."^[8] One specific modification by Miller that was met with great delight by directors was his tendency to encourage the adaptations to be more adventurous than Messina had permitted, pushing the definition of "traditional" to the limit. For example, he adopted a visual and design policy of sourcing sets and costumes from great paintings of the era in which the play was set, thus allowing directors to stamp more of their own aesthetic credo on the productions than they previously been able. Miller's aesthetic policies continued under Shaun Sutton, who took over at the start of season six. The project was Sutton's retirement job, after twelve years as the head of BBC Drama, and he was under strict orders to bring the series to a close, as it had run over by twelve months during Miller's reign. Sutton was successful, and the series closed with a broadcast of Titus Andronicus roughly twelve months later than initially projected. Ultimately, Messina's gamble in 1978 proved successful, as the series was a financial success, having more than broken even by 1982.^[9]

The 37 Plays

Season one; Cedric Messina, producer

『ロメオトジュリエット』　Romeo and Juliet　

　アルヴィン・ラコフ演出，収録 January 31-February 5, 1978、英国での初放送 December 3, 1978、アメリカでの初放送 March 14, 1979。
　パトリック・ライカート　Patrick Ryecart as Romeo, レベッカ・シャイア　Rebecca Shire as Juliet, セリア・ジョンソン　Celia Johnson as the Nurse, マイケル・ホーデーン　Michael Hordern as Lord Capulet, ジョン・ギールグッド　John Gielgud as the Chorus, アンソニー・アンドリュース　Anthony Andrews as Mercutio,　アラン・リックマン　Alan Rickman as Tybalt，ジョセフ・オコンナー　Joseph O'Conor as　Friar Lawrence，ローレンス・ナイスミス　Laurence Naismith as Prince Escalus，ジャクリーン・ヒル　Jacqueline Hill as　Lady Capulet，クリストファー・ストローリ Christopher Strauli as Benvolio，クリストファー・ノーゼイ　Christopher Northey as Paris，ピーター・ヘンリー　Peter Henry as Peter, ロジャー・ディヴィッドソン　Roger Davidson as Balthasar, ジョン・ポール　John Paul as Montague,　ズェルマ・ディーン　Zulema Dene as Lady Montague, エスモンド・ナイト　Esmond Knight as Old Capulet, デイヴィッド・シブリー　David Sibley as Samson, ジャック・カー　Jack Carr as Gregory, バニー・リード　Bunny Reed as Abraham, ヴァーノン・ドブチェフ　Vernon Dobtcheff as Apothecary, ジョン・サヴィデント　John Savident as Friar John
　≪舞台裏で≫レベッカ・シャイアは映画が製作されたときわずか14歳だった。ジュリエットを演じた女優としては異常に若かった（舞台のときはたった13歳）。

　『リチャード二世』　　King Richard the Second

Directed by David Giles, Taping dates: April 12-17, 1978,First transmitted in the UK: December 10, 1978. First transmitted in the US: March 28, 1979

Derek Jacobi as Richard II, Jon Finch as Henry Bolingbroke,John Gielgud as John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Charles Gray as Edmund Langley, Duke of York, Wendy Hiller as the Duchess of York, Mary Morris as the Duchess of Gloucester, David Swift as the Duke of Northumberland, Clifford Rose as the Bishop of Carlisle, Charles Keating as Duke of Aumerle, Richard Owens as Thomas Mowbray, Janet Maw as the Queen, Jeffrey Holland as the Duke of Surrey, Jeremy Bulloch as Henry 'Hotspur' Percy, Robin Sachs as Bushy, Damien Thomas as Bagot Alan Dalton as Green David Dodimead as Lord Ross, John Flint as Lord Willoughby Carl Oatley as Earl Berkeley, William Whymper as Sir Stephen Scroop John Barcroft as Earl of Salisbury, David Garfield as Welsh Captain, Desmond Adams as Sir Pierce of Exton, Bruno Barnabe as Abbot of Westminster, Jonathan Adams as Gardener Alan Collins as Gardener's Man, John Curless as Lord Fitzwater, Terry Wright as Murderer


『お気にめすまま』　As You Like It

Directed by Basil Coleman, Taping dates: May 30-June 16, 1978, First transmitted in the UK: December 17, 1978, First transmitted in the US:> February 28, 1979

Helen Mirren as Rosalind, Brian Stirner as Orlando, Richard Pasco as Jaques, Angharad Rees as Celia, James Bolam as Touchstone, Clive Francis as Oliver, Richard Easton as Duke Frederick, Tony Church as Duke Senior, John Quentin as Le Beau, Maynard Williams as Silvius Victoria, Plucknett as Phebe, Marilyn Le Conte as Audrey, Tom McDonnell as Amiens David Lloyd Meredith as Corin, Arthur Hewlett as Adam, Jeffrey Holland as William, Timothy Bateson as Sir Oliver Martext, David Prowse as Charles the Wrestler, John Moulder-Brown as Hyman, Paul Bentall as Jacques de Boys, Chris Sullivan as Dennis

Filmed at Glamis Castle in Scotland, this was one of only two productions shot on location, the other being Henry VIII. Director Basil Colemen initially felt that the play should be filmed over the course of a year, with the change in seasons from winter to summer marking the ideological change in characters, but he was forced to shoot entirely in May, even though the play begins in winter.

『ジュリアス・シーザー』Julius Caesar

• Directed by Herbert Wise

• Taping dates: July 26-31, 1978

• First transmitted in UK: February 11, 1979

• First transmitted in the US: February 14, 1979 Richard Pasco as BrutusCharles Gray as Julius CaesarKeith Michell as Marcus AntoniusDavid Collings as CassiusVirginia McKenna as PortiaElizabeth Spriggs as CalpurniaSam Dastor as CascaJon Laurimore as FlaviusJohn Sterland as MarullusGarrick Hagon as Octavius CaesarBrian Coburn as MessalaLeonard Preston as TitiniusAlexander Davion as Decius BrutusDarien Angadi as CinnaAndrew Hilton as Lucilius Anthony Dawes as LigariusRoger Bizley as Metellus CimberManning Wilson as CiceroRonald Forfar as The Soothsayer Patrick Marley as Artemidorus William Simons as TreboniusJohn Tordoff as Cinna the PoetPhilip York as Young CatoChristopher Good as Clitus Robert Oates as Pindarus Jonathan Scott-Taylor as Lucius Maurice Thorogood as Strato Michael Greatorex as Varro Nicholas Gecks as Volumnius Michael Jenkinson as Dardanius Roy Spencer as LepidusTerence Conoley as Popilius Noel Johnson as Publius

[edit]Behind-the-scenes

Director Herbert Wise felt that Julius Caesar should be set in the Elizabethan era, but he was compelled by the financiers to set it in a Roman milieu. Wise felt that Shakespeare had written the play specifically as a commentary on Elizabethan culture, and that interpreting it literally as being a play about Ancient Rome trivialised the story.

Measure for Measure

• Directed by Desmond Davis

• Taping dates: May 17-22, 1978

• First transmitted in the UK: February 18, 1979

• First transmitted in the US: April 11, 1979 Kenneth Colley as the Duke Kate Nelligan as Isabella Tim Pigott-Smith as AngeloChristopher Strauli as Claudio John McEnery as Lucio Jacqueline Pearce as Mariana Frank Middlemass as Pompey Alun Armstrong as Provost Adrienne Corri as Mistress Overdone Ellis Jones as Elbow John Clegg as Froth William Sleigh as Barnardine Neil McCarthy as Abhorson Yolanda Vazquez as Juliet Eileen Page as Francesca Kevin Stoney as Escalus Godfrey Jackman as Friar Thomas
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  Director Desmond Davis based the brothel in the play on a traditional Western saloon and the prison on a typical horror filmdungeon.

  [edit]The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight

  • Directed by Kevin Billington

  • Taping dates: November 27, 1978-January 7, 1979

  • First transmitted in UK, February 25, 1979

  • First transmitted in the US: April 25, 1979 John Stride as Henry VIIIClaire Bloom as KatharineRonald Pickup as Cranmer, Archbishop of CanterburyBarbara Kellerman as Anne BullenTimothy West as Cardinal WolseyJulian Glover as the Duke of BuckinghamJohn Rowe as CromwellLewis Fiander as the Duke of SuffolkAlan Leith as Sergeant-at-Arms Tony Church as Prologue John Bailey as Griffith David Troughton as Surveyor John Nettleton as Lord ChamberlainCharles Lloyd Pack as Lord SandysNigel Lambert as Sir Thomas LovellAdam Bareham as Sir Henry Guildford Jeremy Kemp as the Duke of NorfolkJack McKenzie as Sir Nicholas VauxMichael Poole as Cardinal CampeiusPeter Vaughan as Gardiner, Bishop of WinchesterDavid Rintoul as Lord AbergavennyDavid Dodimead as the Bishop of LincolnOliver Cotton as the Earl of SurreyJohn Rhys-Davies as CapuciusJohn Rogan as Dr. ButtsJack May as the Lord Chancellor

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  Shot at Leeds Castle, Penhurst Place and Hever Castle and in the actual rooms in which some of the real events took place.

  
  

  [edit]Seaon two; Cedric Messina, producer

  [edit]The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, with the life and death of Henry surnamed Hotspur

  • Directed by David Giles

  • Taping dates: March 7-12, 1979

  • First transmitted in the UK: December 9, 1979

  • First transmitted in the US: March 26, 1980 Anthony Quayle as Sir John FalstaffJon Finch as King Henry the FourthDavid Gwillim as Hal, Prince of WalesTim Pigott-Smith as Henry 'Hotspur' PercyMichele Dotrice as Lady Percy Brenda Bruce as Mistress Quickly Rob Edwards as Prince John of LancasterDavid Buck as the Earl of WestmorlandRobert Brown as Sir Walter Blunt Clive Swift as Thomas Percy, Earl of WorcesterBruce Purchase as Henry Percy, Earl of NorthumberlandRobert Morris as Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March John Cairney as Archibald, Earl of DouglasDavid Neal as Scroop, Archbishop of York Norman Rutherford as Sir Michael Richard Owens as Owen GlendowerTerence Wilton as Sir Richard Vernon Jack Galloway as Poins Gordon Gostelow as Bardolph Steven Beard as Peto Sharon Morgan as Lady Mortimer

  
  

  [edit]The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth, including his death and the coronation of King Henry the Fift

  • Directed by David Giles

  • Taping dates: April 11-16, 1979

  • First transmitted in the UK: December 16, 1979

  • First transmitted in the US: April 9, 1980 Jon Finch as King Henry the FourthDavid Gwillim as Prince Henry of WalesRob Edwards as Prince John of LancasterMartin Neil as Prince Humphrey of GloucesterRoger Davenport as Prince Thomas, Duke of ClarenceBruce Purchase as the Earl of NorthumberlandDavid Neal as Scroop, Archbishop of York Michael Miller as Lord Mowbray Richard Bebb as Lord Hastings John Humphry as Lord BardolphSalvin Stewart as Sir John Colville David Strong as Travers Carl Oatley as Morton Rod Beacham as the Earl of WarwickDavid Buck as the Earl of WestmorlandBrian Poyser as Gower Ralph Michael as the Lord Chief JusticeAnthony Quayle as Sir John FalstaffJack Galloway as Poins Gordon Gostelow as Bardolph Bryan Pringle as Pistol Steven Beard as Peto Robert Eddison as Justice Robert Shallow Leslie French as Justice Silence Raymond Platt as Davy Frederick Proud as Fang Julian Battersby as Ralph Mouldy Roy Herrick as Simon Shadow Alan Collins as Thomas Wart John Tordoff as Francis Feeble Roger Elliott as Peter Bullcalf Jenny Laird as Lady Northumberland Michele Dotrice as Lady Percy Brenda Bruce as Mistress Quickly Frances Cuka as Doll Tearsheet

  
  

  [edit]The Life of Henry the Fift

  • Directed by David Giles

  • Taping dates: June 18-25, 1979

  • First transmitted in the UK: December 23, 1979

  • First transmitted in the US: April 23, 1980 John Abineri as the Bishop of ElyRobert Ashby as the Earl of SalisburyTrevor Baxter as the Archbishop of CanterburyRob Beacham as the Earl of WarwickJocelyne Boisseau as Princess KatherineAlan Brown as the Governor of Harfleur John Bryans as the Duke of BourbonDavid Buck as the Earl of WestmorelandRoger Davenport as the Duke of Clarence Keith Drinkel as Lewis the DauphinRob Edwards as the Duke of BedfordRonald Forfar as Bates Carl Forgione as Rambures John Fowler as the Boy Julian Glover as the Constable of FranceGordon Gostelow as Bardolph David Gwillim as Henry VGarrick Hagon as Mountjoy Robert Harris as the Duke of BurgundyJeffrey Holland as Nym Derek Hollis as the Duke of YorkGeorge Howe as Sir Thomas ErpinghamAlec McCowen as Chorus Michael McKevitt as Jamy Clifford Parrish as the Duke of ExeterDavid Pinner as Williams Brian Poyser as Gower Ian Price as ScropeBryan Pringle as Pistol Anna Quayle as Alice David Rowlands as Sir Thomas GreyPamela Ruddock as Queen IsabelJohn Saunders as the Duke of Orle'ansMartin Smith as the Duke of GloucesterThorley Walters as the King of FrancePaddy Ward as Macmorris William Whymper as the Earl of CambridgeTim Wylton as FluellenBrenda Bruce as Mistress Quickly

  　『十二夜』 Twelfth Night

  　演出はジョン・ゴリー　John Gorrie、収録は May 16-21, 1979、英国初放送は　January 6, 1980、アメリカ初放送は February 27, 1980。 　アレック・マッコーェン Alec McCowen as Malvolio, ロバート・ハーディRobert Hardy as Sir Toby Belch， フェリシティ・ケンドール　Felicity Kendal as　Viola，アネット・クロスビー Annette Crosbie as Maria，サイニード・キューザック Sine'ad Cusack as Olivia， トレヴァー・ピーコック　Trevor Peacock as　Feste，クライヴ・アリンデル　Clive Arrindell as Orsino， ロニー・スティーヴンス　Ronnie Stevens as Sir Andrew Aguecheek，ロバート・リンゼー　Robert Lindsay as Fabian，モーリス・レーヴス Maurice Roe"ves as Antonio， マイケル・トーマス　Michael Thomas as Sebastian eynolds，マルコルム・レイノルズ　Malcolm Reynolds as Valentine ライアン・ミッチェル　Ryan Michael as Curio，リック・モーガン　Ric Morgan as the Sea Captain，アーサー・ヒューレット Arthur Hewlett as the Priest。
  
  　≪舞台裏で≫監督のジョン・ゴリーはこの劇をイギリスのカントリー・ハウスのコメディと解釈した。そして、ルイジ・ピランデルロの『Ｉｌ　Ｇｉａｃｏ　delle　Parti』からTVの『上階、下階』までの影響を具体化した。ゴリーはまたこの劇をイギリス市民戦争中と設定した。騎士派と円頂派の使用が祝祭と清教徒の衝突の劇化に焦点を当てると期待される.

  
  
  
  
  
  [edit]The Tempest

  • Directed by John Gorrie

  • Taping dates: July 23-28, 1979

  • First transmitted in the UK: February 27, 1980

  • First transmitted in the US: May 7, 1980 Michael Hordern as ProsperoDerek Godfrey as Antonio David Waller as Alonso Warren Clarke as CalibanNigel Hawthorne as StephanoDavid Dixon as ArielAndrew Sachs as Trinculo John Nettleton as GonzaloAlan Rowe as Sebastian Pippa Guard as MirandaChristopher Guard as FerdinandKenneth Gilbert as Boatswain Edwin Brown as Master Paul Greenhalgh as Francisco Christopher Bramwell as Adrian Gwyneth Lloyd as JunoElizabeth Gardner as CeresJudith Rees as Iris

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  The special effects seen in this episode were not developed especially for use here. They had been developed for Top of the Pops and Doctor Who.

  
  　 （９）BBCシェイクスピア全集の『ハムレット』　Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  　演出ロドニー・ベネット、収録January 31-February 8, 1980、英国初放送　May 25, 1980、アメリカ初放送　November 10, 1980。
  
  　デレク・ジャコビ Derek Jacobi as Hamlet、クレア・ブルーム Claire Bloom as Gertrude,パトリック・スチュワート　Patrick Stewart as Claudius、エリック・ポーター　Eric Porter as Polonius、ララ・ワード Lalla Ward as Ophelia、ディヴィッド・ロッブ David Robb as Laertes、 パトリック・アレン Patrick Allen as the Ghost of Hamlet's Father,、ロバート・スワン Robert Swann as Horatio、 ジョナサン・ハイド Jonathan Hyde as Rosencrantz、ジオフリー・ベイトマン Geoffrey Bateman as Guildenstern,、 エムリス・ジェイムズ　Emrys James as Player King 、ジェイソン・ケンプ Jason Kemp as Player Queen、イアン・チャールソン Ian Charleson as Fortinbras、テイム・ウィルトンTim Wylton as First Gravedigger、 ピーター・ベンソンPeter Benson as Second Gravedigger、ポール・ハムポレッツPaul Humpoletz as Marcellus ニール・パッデンNiall Padden as Bernardo クリストファー・ベインズChristopher Baines as Francisco、ジョン・ハンフリー John Humphry as Voltimand、ジョン・スターランド John Sterland as Cornelius、ピーター・ゲイル Peter Gale as Osric、レイモンド・メイソン Raymond Mason as Reynaldo、 ダン・ミーデン Dan Meaden as Norwegian Captain、ディヴィッド・ヘンリー David Henry as English Ambassador。
  
  

  [edit]Season three; Jonathan Miller, producer

  Petruchio (John Cleese) and Katherine (Sarah Badel)

  [edit]The Taming of the Shrew

  • Directed by Jonathan Miller

  • Taping dates: June 18-24, 1980

  • First transmitted in the UK: October 23, 1980

  • First transmitted in the US: January 26, 1981 Simon Chandler as Lucentio Anthony Pedley as Tranio John Franklyn-Robbins as Baptista Frank Thornton as Gremio Sarah Badel as KatherineJonathan Cecil as Hortensio Susan Penhaligon as BiancaHarry Waters as Biondello John Cleese as PetruchioDavid Kincaid as Grumio Angus Lennie as Curtis Harry Webster as Nathaniel Gil Morris as Philip Leslie Sarony as Gregory Derek Deadman as Nicholas Denis Gilmore as Peter John Bird as the Pedant Alan Hay as the Tailor David Kinsey as the Haberdasher John Barron as Vincentio Joan Hickson as the Widow

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  The casting of John Cleese as Petruchio was not without controversy at the time. Cleese had never performed Shakespeare before, and was not a fan of the first two seasons of the BBC Television Shakespeare, and took some persuading from Miller that the BBC Shrew would not be, as Cleese feared "about a lot of furniture being knocked over, a lot of wine being spilled, a lot of thighs being slapped and a lot of unmotivated laughter."^[10] As such, Miller told Cleese that the episode would interpret Petruchio as an early Puritan, and that the part was not to be acted along the traditional lines of the swaggering bully a laRichard Burton in Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation. In tandem with this interpretation, the song sung at the end of the play is a musical version of Psalm 128, which was often sung in Puritan households at the end of a meal during Shakespeare's own day.

  [edit]The Merchant of Venice

  • Directed by Jack Gold

  • Taping dates: May 15-21, 1980

  • First transmitted in the UK: December 17, 1980

  • First transmitted in the US: February 23, 1981 John Franklyn-Robbins as AntonioJohn Rhys-Davies as Salerio Alan David as Solanio John Nettles as Bassiano Richard Morant as Lorenzo Kenneth Cranham as Gratiano Gemma Jones as PortiaSusan Jameson as Nerissa Daniel Mitchell as Balthasar Warren Mitchell as ShylockMarc Zuber as the Prince of Morocco Enn Reitel as Lancelot Gobbo Joe Gladwin as Old Gobbo Roger Martin as Leonardo Leslee Udwin as Jessica Peter Gale as the Prince of Arragon Arnold Diamond as Tubal Douglas Wilmer as the Duke of Venice Shaun Scott as Stephano

  [edit]All's Well That Ends Well

  • Directed by Elijah Moshinsky

  • Taping dates: July 23-29, 1980

  • First transmitted in the UK: January 4, 1981

  • First transmitted in the US: May 18, 1981 Celia Johnson as The Countess of Rousillion Ian Charleson as Bertram Michael Hordern as Lafeu Angela Down as Helena Peter Jeffrey as Parolles Donald Sinden as the King of France Paul Brooke as Lavache Robert Lindsay as the first Lord Dumaine Dominic Jephcott as the Second Lord Dumaine Rosemary Leach as The Widow of Florence Pippa Guard as Diana Joolia Cappleman as Mariana Nickolas Grace as the "Interpreter" Terence McGinity as The First Gentleman Max Arthur as The Second Gentleman

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  In line with producer Jonathan Miller's new aesthetic policy, director Elijah Moshinsky composed many of the shots of the film as live action replicas of the work of Johannes Vermeer.

  
  

  [edit]The Winter's Tale

  • Directed by Jane Howell

  • Taping dates: April 9-15, 1980

  • First transmitted in the UK: February 8, 1981

  • First transmitted in the US: June 8, 1981 John Welsh as Archidamus David Burke as Camillo Robert Stephens as Polixenes Jeremy Kemp as LeontesAnna Calder-Marshall as Hermionie Jeremy Dimmick as Mamillius Merelina Kendall as Emilia Cyril Luckham as Antigonus Margaret Tyzack as Paulina John Curless as Cleomenes Colin McCormack as Dion Arthur Hewlett as The Old Shepard Paul Jesson as the Clown Harold Goldblatt as Time Rikki Fulton as Autolycus Robin Kermode as FlorizelDebbie Farrington as PerditaJanette Legge as Dorcas Maggie Wells as Mopsa Pat Gorman as The Bear

  
  

  [edit]Timon of Athens

  • Directed by Jonathan Miller

  • Taping dates: January 28-February 3, 1981

  • First transmitted in the UK: April 16, 1981

  • First transmitted in the US: December 14, 1981 John Fortune as the Poet John Bird as the Painter Tony Jay as the Merchant David Kinsey as the Jeweller Jonathan Pryce as TimonJohn Welsh as Flavius Sebastian Shaw as Old Athenian James Cossins as Lucullus Norman Rodway as ApemantusGeoffrey Collins as Flaminius Terence McGinity as Servilius John Shrapnel as Alcibades Hugh Thomas as Lucius Max Arthur as Lucillus Donald Gee as Ventidius John Bailey as Sempronius Michael Anthony as Caphis Elyane Sharling as Phryina Diana Dors as Timandra

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  Michael Bogdanov was originally hired to direct this episode, but he resigned after his modern-dress interpretation was considered too radical.

  
  

  [edit]Antony and Cleopatra^[11]

  • Directed by Jonathan Miller

  • Taping dates: March 5-10, 1980

  • First transmitted in the US: April 20, 1981

  • First transmitted in the UK: May 8, 1981 John Paul as CanidiusJonathan Adams as VentidiusJane Lapotaire as CleopatraColin Blakely as AntonyDarien Angadi as Alexas Janet Key as CharmianHoward Goorney as the Soothsayer Cassie McFarlane as Iras Emrys James as Enobarbus Mohammad Shamsi as Mardian Ian Charleson as Octavius CaesarEsmond Knight as LepidusHarry Waters as Thidius David Neal as Proculeius Anthony Pedley as AgrippaGeoffrey Collins as Dolabella Donald Sumpter as Pompeius George Innes as MenasDesmond Stokes as Menecrates Lynn Farleigh as Octavius Simon Chandler as Eros Christopher Ettridge as Scarus George Howe as EuphroniusAlec Sabin as Dercetas

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  During the shooting of the scene with the snake, the snake crawled down the back of Jane Lapotaire's dress.

  [edit]Season four; Jonathan Miller, producer

  [edit]Othello

  • Directed by Jonathan Miller

  • Taping dates: March 9-17, 1981

  • First transmitted in the UK: October 4, 1981

  • First transmitted in the US: October 12, 1981 Anthony Pedley as RoderigoBob Hoskins as IagoGeoffrey Chater as BrabantioAlexander Davion as Gratiano Anthony Hopkins as OthelloDavid Yelland as CassioJoseph O'Conor as Lodovico John Barron as Duke of Venice Penelope Wilton as DesdemonaRosemary Leach as EmiliaTony Steedman as Montano Wendy Morgan as Bianca

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  James Earl Jones was originally hired to play the role of Othello, but Equity, the English Actor's Guild, refused to issue a work permit. During production itself, Jonathan Miller based the visual design on the work of El Greco.

  [edit]Troilus and Cressida

  • Directed by Jonathan Miller

  • Taping dates: July 28-August 5, 1981

  • First transmitted in the UK: November 7, 1981

  • First transmitted in the US: May 17, 1982 Charles Gray as PandarusAnton Lesser as TroilusTony Steedman as AeneasSuzanne Burden as CressidaMax Harvey as Alexander Vernon Dobtcheff as AgamemnonGeoffrey Chater as NestorBenjamin Whitrow as UlyssesBernard Brown as MenelausAnthony Pedley as AjaxJack Birkett as ThersitesKenneth Haigh as AchillesSimon Cutter as PatroclusEsmond Knight as PriamJohn Shrapnel as HectorElayne Sharling as CassandraDavid Firth as ParisPaul Moriarty as DiomedesAnn Pennington as HelenPeter Whitbread as CalchasMerelina Kendall as AndromacheCornelius Garrett as Margarelon Tony Portacio as HelenusPeter J. Cassell as Deiphobus

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  Director Jonathan Miller used the work of gothic painter Lucas Cranach as a visual influence during the production, and several of Cranach's paintings can be seen in Ajax's tent.

  
  

  [edit]A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • Directed by Elijah Moshinsky

  • Taping dates: May 19-25, 1981

  • First transmitted in the UK: December 13, 1981

  • First transmitted in the US: April 19, 1982 Estelle Kohler as HippolytaNigel Davenport as TheseusHugh Quarshie as PhilostrateGeoffrey Lumsden as EgeusPippa Guard as HermiaNicky Henson as DemetriusRobert Lindsay as LysanderCherith Mellor as HelenaGeoffrey Palmer as Peter QuinceBrian Glover as Nick BottomJohn Fowler as Francis FluteDon Estelle as Robin StarvelingNat Jackley as Tom SnoutRay Mort as SnugPhil Daniels as PuckHelen Mirren as TitaniaPeter McEnery as OberonBruce Savage as Peaseblossom Massimo Mezzofanti as Cobweb Dominic Martelli as Moth Timothy Cross as Mustardseed

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  Elijah Moshinsky based the fairies in the play on the baroqueeroticism of Rembrandt and Peter Paul Rubens.

  
  

  [edit]Season Five; Jonathan Miller and Shaun Sutton, producers

  
  『リア王』　King Lear
  
  　演出はジョナサン・ミラー。収録日時は1982年3月26日から4月2日、英国初放送日1982年9月19日、アメリカ初放送日1982年10月18日。
  
  　ケント伯（ジョン・シラプネル）、グロスター（ノーマン・ロッドウェイ）エドマンド（マイケル・キッチン）、リア王（マイケル・ホルデーン）、ゴネリル（ギリアン・バージ）、コーデリア（ブレンダ・ブレスリン）、リーガン（ペネロープ・ウィルトン）、アルバニー公（ジョン・バード）、コーンウォール公（ジュリアン・カリー）、バーガンディ（ディヴィッド・ウェストン）、フランス王（ハリー・ウォーターズ）、エドガー（アントン・レサー）、オズワルド（ジョン・グリロ）、道化（フランク・ミドルマス）、カラン（ケン・スコット）、医師（ジョージ・ハウ）
  をスターにした。しかし、元来ロバート・ショウがリアに予定されていたが、彼は1978年に死亡してしまった。この製作が始まる前だった。
  　≪舞台裏で≫ジョナサン・ミラーは以前に『リア王』をＢＢＣシリーズ「今月の演劇」用に脚色して演出した経験があった。ミラーの前回はマイケル・ホルデーン（リア王）とフランク・ミドルマス（道化）をスターにした。もとはロバート・ショウがリア王に予定されていたが、本プロダクションが始まる前の1978年に亡くなった。
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  [edit]Cymbeline^[11]

  • Directed by Elijah Moshinsky

  • Taping dates: July 29-August 5, 1982

  • First transmitted in the US: December 20, 1982

  • First transmitted in the UK: July 10, 1983 Richard Johnson as CymbelineHugh Thomas as Cornelius Claire Bloom as Queen Helen Mirren as ImogenMichael Pennington as Posthumous John Kane as Pisanio Paul Jesson as Cloten Robert Lindsay as Iachimo Geoffrey Lumsden as Philario Patsy Smart as Helen Graham Crowden as Caius Lucius Michael Gough as Belarius Geoffrey Burridge as GuideriusDavid Creedon as ArviragusPatricia Hayes as Soothsayer Marius Goring as Sicilius Leonatus Michael Hordern as Jupiter

  
  

  [edit]The Merry Wives of Windsor

  • Directed by David Hugh Jones

  • Taping dates: November 1-8, 1982

  • First transmitted in the UK: December 28, 1982

  • First transmitted in the US: January 31, 1983 Alan Bennett as Justice Shallow Richard O'Callaghan as Slender Tenniel Evans as Sir Hugh Evans Bryan Marshall as George Page Richard Griffiths as Sir John FalstaffGordon Gostelow as Bardolph Nigel Terry as Pistol Michael Robbins as Nym Miranda Foster as Anne Page Judy Davis as Mistress Ford Prunella Scales as Mistress Page Ron Cook as Peter Simple Michael Graham Cox as Host Lee Whitlock as Robin Elizabeth Spriggs as Mistress Quickly John Joyce as John Rugby Michael Bryant as Doctor Caius Simon Chandler as Fenton Ben Kingsley as Frank Ford Ralph Brown as John Peter Gordon as Robert Crispin Mair as William Page

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  Director David Jones originally wanted to shoot the episode in Stratford-upon-Avon but was restricted to a studio setting. Jones got around this by basing his set on the house which belonged to Shakespeare's son-in-law, John Hall.

  
  

  [edit]The First Part of Henry the Sixt

  • Directed by Jane Howell

  • Taping dates: October 13-19, 1981

  • First transmitted in the UK: January 2, 1983

  • First transmitted in the US: March 27, 1983 Peter Benson as Henry VIBrenda Blethyn as Joan la PucelleAntony Brown as the Duke of BurgundyDavid Burke as the Duke of GloucesterMichael Byrne as the Duke of Alenc,onPaul Chapman as the Earl of SuffolkArthur Cox as Sir John FastolfeDavid Daker as Reigner, Duke of AnjouBrian Deacon as the Earl of SomersetTenniel Evans as the Duke of BedfordDerek Farr as the Earl of SalisburyJulia Foster as MargaretAlex Guard as Young TalbotBernard Hill as the Duke of YorkJoanna McCallum as the Countess d'Auvergne Frank Middlemass as Cardinal BeaufortJoseph O'Conor as the Duke of ExeterTrevor Peacock as Lord TalbotBrian Protheroe as the Bastard of Orle'ansIan Saynor as the Dauphin CharlesMark Wing-Davey as the Earl of WarwickPeter Wyatt as Woodville

  [edit]The Second Part of Henry the Sixt

  • Directed by Jane Howell

  • Taping dates: December 17-23, 1981

  • First transmitted in the UK: January 9, 1983

  • First transmitted in the US: April 10, 1983 Peter Benson as Henry VIAntony Brown as Walter Whitmore/Alexander Iden David Burke as the Duke of Gloucester/Dick the Butcher Michael Byrne as John Hume Anne Carroll as the Duchess of GloucesterPaul Chapman as the Duke of SuffolkRon Cook as Richard PlantaganetArthur Cox as Thomas Horner/Lord CliffordDavid Daker as the Duke of BuckinghamBrian Deacon as the Duke of Somerset/Smith the Weaver Tenniel Evans as the Earl of Salisbury/Clerk of Chartham Derek Farr as Lord SayeJulia Foster as Queen MargaretDerek Fuke as Simpcox Bernard Hill as the Duke of YorkPaul Jesson as John Holland/George PlantagenetPat Keen as Margery Jourdayne Gabrielle Lloyd as Simpox's Wife Oengus MacNamara as Young CliffordFrank Middlemass as Cardinal BeaufortTrevor Peacock as Jack CadeBrian Protheroe as Edward PlantagenetDavid Pugh as Peter Thump Mark Wing-Davey as the Earl of WarwickPeter Wyatt as Sir Humphrey Stafford

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  This episode was filmed on the same set as The First Part of Henry the Sixt. However, designer Oliver Bayldon altered the set so it would appear that the paint work was flaking and peeling, and the set falling into a state of disrepair, as England descended into an ever increasing state of chaos.

  [edit]The Third Part of Henry the Sixt

  • Directed by Jane Howell

  • Taping dates: February 10-17, 1982

  • First transmitted in the UK: January 16, 1983

  • First transmitted in the US: April 24, 1983 John Benfield as the Earl of NorthumberlandPeter Benson as Henry VIAntony Brown as Lewis, King of FranceMichael Byrne as the Marquess of MontaguePaul Chapman as the Earl of RiversRon Cook as Richard, Duke of GloucesterRowena Cooper as Lady Elizabeth GreyArthur Cox as the Duke of SomersetDavid Daker as Lord HastingsMathew David as the Earl of RutlandBrian Deacon as Earl of OxfordDerek Farr as the Duke of ExeterJulia Foster as MargaretDerek Fuke as the Earl of Westmoreland Tim Fuke as the Earl of RichmondAlex Guard as the Marquess of Dorset Bernard Hill as the Duke of YorkPaul Jesson as George, Duke of ClarenceMerelina Kendall as Lady Bona Oengus MacNamara as Young CliffordBrian Protheroe as Edward IVNick Reding as Edward, Prince of WalesMark Wing-Davey as the Earl of WarwickPeter Wyatt as the Duke of Norfolk

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  This episode was filmed on the same set as The First Part of Henry the Sixt and The Second Part of Henry the Sixt. However, designer Oliver Bayldon altered the set so it would appear to be completely falling apart, as England descended into an even worse state of chaos.

  
  

  [edit]The Tragedy of Richard III

  • Directed by Jane Howell

  • Taping dates: March 31-April 6, 1982

  • First transmitted in the UK: January 23, 1983

  • First transmitted in the US: May 2, 1983 Peter Benson as the Ghost of Henry VIAntony Brown as Sir Richard RatcliffeDavid Burke as Sir William CatesbyMichael Byrne as the Duke of BuckinghamAnne Carroll as Jane ShorePaul Chapman as the Earl of RiversRon Cook as Richard IIIRowena Cooper as Queen ElizabethArthur Cox as Lord GreyAnnette Crosbie as the Duchess of YorkDavid Daker as Lord HastingsBrian Deacon as Henry, Earl of RichmondTenniel Evans as Lord StanleyDerek Farr as Sir Robert BrackenburyDorian Ford as Edward, Prince of WalesJulia Foster as MargaretDerek Fuke as Sir Thomas VaughanAlex Guard as the Marquess of DorsetBernard Hill as Sir William BrandonPatsy Kensit as Lady Margaret PlantagenetOengus MacNamara as Lord LovellBrian Protheroe as Edward IVNick Reding as the Ghost of the Prince of WalesZoe" Wanamaker as Lady AnneMark Wing-Davey as Sir James TyrellPeter Wyatt as the Duke of Norfolk

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  This episode was filmed on the same set as the three Henry VI plays. However, designer Oliver Bayldon altered the set so it would appear to be a ruin, as England reached its lowest point of chaos.

  
  

  Season six; Shaun Sutton, producer Macbeth[11]
  Directed by Jack Gold Taping dates: June 22-28, 1982 First transmitted in the US: October 17, 1983 First transmitted in the UK: November 5, 1983 Brenda Bruce as First WitchEileen Way as Second WitchAnne Dyson as Third WitchMark Dignam as DuncanJames Hazeldine as MalcolmJohn Rowe as Lennox Gawn Grainger as Ross Nicol Williamson as MacbethIan Hogg as BanquoDavid Lyon as Angus Jane Lapotaire as Lady MacbethAlistair Henderson as FleanceTony Doyle as MacduffTom Bowles as DonalbainEamon Boland as Seyton Jill Baker as Lady MacduffCrispin Mair as Young MacduffMatthew Long as Menteith Peter Porteous as Caithness William Abney as Old SiwardNicholas Coppin as Young Siward
  The Comedy of Errors
  Directed by James　Cellan Jones,　Taping dates: November 3-9, 1983,　First transmitted in the UK: December 24, 1983,　First transmitted in the US: February 20, 1984
  Cyril Cusack as Aegeon, Charles Gray as Solinus Nicolas　Chagrin as Master of the Mime Michael Kitchen as Antipholus Roger Daltrey　as Dromio Suzanne Bertish as Adriana Joanne Pearce as Luciana Marsha Fitzalan as Luce Sam Dastor as Angelo David Kelly as Balthazar Geoffrey Rose as Pinch Ingrid Pitt as Courtesan Wendy Hiller as the Abbess

  [edit]The Two Gentlemen of Verona

  • Directed by Don Taylor

  • Taping dates: July 25-31, 1983

  • First transmitted in the UK: December 27, 1983

  • First transmitted in the US: April 23, 1984 Frank Barrie as Eglamour Tessa Peake-Jones as Julia Hetta Charnley as Lucetta Tyler Butterworth as Proteus John Hudson as Valentine Nicholas Kaby as Speed Michael Byrne as Antonio John Woodnutt as Panthino Joanne Pearce as Sylvia Tony Haygarth as Launce David Collings as Thurio Paul Daneman as the Duke

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  The music in this episode was created by Anthony Rooley, who wrote new arrangements of works from Shakespeare's own time. For example, John Dowland's piece 'Lachrimae' was rewritten and performed by Rooley. According to director Don Taylor, the use of the young actors dressed as cherubs was to convey the idea that the characters lived in a 'Garden of Courtly Love', which was slightly divorced from every day reality.

  
  

  [edit]The Tragedy of Coriolanus^[11]

  • Directed by Elijah Moshinsky

  • Taping dates: April 18-26, 1983

  • First transmitted in the US: March 26, 1984

  • First transmitted in the UK: April 21, 1984 Joss Ackland as MeneniusAlan Howard as Gaius Marcius CoriolanusPatrick Godfrey as Cominius Peter Sands as Titus LartiusJohn Burgess as Sicinius Anthony Pedley as Junius Brutus Mike Gwilym as AufidiusValentine Dyall as Adrian Irene Worth as VolumniaJoanna McCallum as VirgiliaHeather Canning as Valeria Damien Franklin as Marcus Nicolas Amer as AedileTeddy Kempner as Nicanor

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  Director Elijah Moshinsky modelled the relationship between Coriolanus and his mother after that between Rose Kennedy and her sons.

  [edit]Pericles, Prince of Tyre^[11]

  • Directed by David Hugh Jones

  • Taping dates: June 21-28, 1983

  • First transmitted in the US: June 11, 1984

  • First transmitted in the UK: December 8, 1984 Edward Petherbridge as Gower John Woodvine as King Antiochus Edita Brychta as Antiochus' daughter Mike Gwilym as PericlesRobert Ashby as Thaliard Patrick Godfrey as Helicanus Toby Salaman as Escanes Norman Rodway as Cleon Annette Crosbie as Dionyza Christopher Saul as Lord of Tarsus Patrick Allen as King Simonides Juliet Stevenson as Thaisa Edward Clayton as Philemon Stephen Oxley as Lord of Pentapolis Valerie Lush as Lychorida Clive Swift as Lord Cerimon Nick Brimble as Leonine Amanda Redman as Marina Trevor Peacock as Boult Lila Kaye as Bawd Patrick Ryecart as Lysimachus Elayne Sharling as the Goddess Diana

  ■ Season seven; Shaun Sutton, producer

  
  　『空騒ぎ』 Much Ado About Nothｇi
  　演出はスチュアート・バージ Stuart　Burge。収録　August 15-21, 1984，英国での初放送　December 22, 1984，アメリカでの初放送October 30, 1984。
  　リー・モンターグ　Lee Montague as Leonato、シェリー・ルンギ　Cherie Lunghi as Beatrice、キャサリン・レヴィ　Katharine Levy as Hero、ジョン・フィンチ Jon Finch as Don Pedro、 ロバート・リンゼィ　Robert Lindsay as Benedick、ロバート。レイノルズ　Robert Reynolds as Claudio、ゴードン・ホワイティング　Gordon Whiting as Antonio、 ヴァーノン・ドブチェフ　Vernon Dobtcheff as Don John、ロバート・グイリム　Robert Gwilym as Conrade、トニー・ロー Tony Rohr as Borachio、 パメラ・モイセイウィッチ Pamela Moiseiwitsch as Margaret、イシア・ベニーソン　Ishia Bennison as Ursula、 オズ・クラーク　Oz Clarke as Balthasar、マイケル・エルフィック　Michael Elphick as Dogberry、クライヴ・ダン　Clive Dunn as Verges、 グラハム・クラウデン　Graham Crowden as Friar Franci。
  　≪舞台裏で≫『空騒ぎ』はドナルド・マックウィーニー演出、ペネロープ・キースとマイケル・ヨーク主演で、このシリーズの最初に製作され記録されたのだが、アメリカの視聴者に不満と考えられて、放送されなかった。第７シーズンに撮り直される間、スチュアート・バージ監督は最初はなんらセットなしで、背景の空白のタペストリーに反する完全なエピソードを撮ることを考えたが、観客がこれを良しと反応したわけではなかったように感じて、そのアイデアを捨てた。.
  

  [edit]The Life and Death of King John

  • Directed by David Giles

  • Taping dates: February 1-7, 1984

  • First transmitted in the UK: November 24, 1984

  • First transmitted in the US: January 11, 1985 Leonard Rossiter as King JohnWilliam Whymper as Chatillon Mary Morris as Queen ElinorRobert Brown as the Earl of PembrokeJohn Castle as the Earl of EssexJohn Flint as Lord Bigot John Thaw as Hubert de BurghGeorge Costigan as Philip the Bastard Edward Hibbert as Robert Faulconbridge Phyllida Law as Lady Faulconbridge Mike Lewin as James Gurney Charles Kay as Philip, King of FranceJonathan Coy as Lewis the DauphinLuc Owen as Arthur, Duke of BritanyGordon Kaye as Lymoges, Duke of Austria Claire Bloom as ConstanceJohn Moreno as Melun Janet Maw as BlancheRichard Wordsworth as Cardinal PandulphAlan Collins as Peter of Pomfret Rusty Livingstone as Prince Henry

  
  

  2Love's Labour's Lost

  • Directed by Elijah Moshinsky

  • Taping dates: June 30-July 6, 1984

  • First transmitted in the UK: January 5, 1985

  • First transmitted in the US: May 31, 1985 Jonathan Kent as the King of Navarre Christopher Blake as Longaville Geoffrey Burridge as Dumain Mike Gwilym as Berowne David Warner as Don Armado John Kane as Moth Paul Jesson as Costard Frank Williams as Dull Paddy Navin as Jaquenetta Clifford Rose as Boyet Maureen Lipman as the Princess of France Katy Behean as Maria Petra Markham as Katharine Jenny Agutter as Rosaline Jay Ruparelia as Adrian John Burgess as Sir Nathaniel John Wells as Holofernes Valentine Dyall as Marcade Linda Kitchen as Spring Susanna Ross as Winter

  [edit]Behind-the-scenes

  Director Elijah Moshinsky used the paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau, the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the writing of Pierre de Marivaux as inspiration during the making of this episode, which is the only play of the thirty-seven to be set in the eighteenth century.

  [edit]Titus Andronicus^[11]

  • Directed by Jane Howell

  • Taping dates: February 10-17, 1985

  • First transmitted in the US: April 19, 1985

  • First transmitted in the UK: April 27, 1985 Paul Davies Prowles as Young Lucius Edward Hardwicke as Marcus Walter Brown as Aemilius Brian Protheroe as Saturninus Nicholas Gecks as Bassianus Derek Fuke as Sempronius Eileen Atkins as Tamora Peter Searles as Alarbus Neil McCaul as Demetrius Michael Crompton as Chiron Hugh Quarshie as Aaron Gavin Richards as Lucius Crispin Redman as Quintus Tom Hunsinger as Martius Michael Packer as Mutius Trevor Peacock as Titus Andronicus Anna Calder-Marshall as Lavinia Paul Kelly as Publius

  [edit]Omissions and changes

  With the exception of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, all of the productions were based on the texts of the First Folio (1623)^[13], however, numerous changes were made throughout the series.

  • Richard II

    • The trial/multiple challenges portion of Act IV is omitted.

    • All mention of Henry IV's son, later Henry V, is omitted.

  • Henry IV, Part 2

    • The Epilogue is omitted.

    • Much other material, especially involving Falstaff, is cut.

  • Twelfth Night

    • Act 2, Scene 2 follows immediately after Act 1, Scene 5.

  • The Taming of the Shrew

    • The Induction, and the interjection of Sly at the end of Act 1, Scene 1 are absent.

    • Several lines are omitted from the conversation between Grumio and Curtis in Act 4, Scene 1.

    • The brief conversation between Biondello and Lucentio which opens Act 5, Scene 1 is absent.

    • Act 5, Scene 2 ends differently to the play. The last line spoken is Petruchio's "We three are married, but you two are sped;" thus omitting Petruchio's comment to Lucentio "'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white, And being a winner, God give you good night," as well as Hortensio's line, "Now go thy ways, thou has tamed a curst shrew," and Lucentio's closing statement, "'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so." Additionally, Petruchio and Katherina do not leave the banquet prior to the end of the play, but remain, and engage in a song with all present.

  • Henry VI, Part 2

    • Lines are omitted from every scene. Some of the more noticeable absences include, in Act 1, Scene 1, both of Humphrey's references to Bedford are absent, as is the reference to Suffolk's demands that he be paid for escorting Margaret from France, and York's allusion to Althaea and Calydon in his closing soliloquy. York's outline of Edward III's seven sons is absent from Act 2, Scene 2, as is Salisbury's reference to Owen Glendower. Suffolk's accusation that Humphrey was involved in necromancy with Eleanor is omitted from Act 3, Scene 1, as is Humphrey's outline of how he dealt with criminals during his time as Lord Protector. Also absent from 3.1 is York's reference to how he fought alongside Cade in Ireland. In Act 4, Scene 1, all references to Walter Whitmore's name as Gualtier are absent. The entirety of Act 4, Scene 5 (a brief scene showing Scales and Gough on patrol at the Tower of London) is absent. In Act 5, Scene 1, some of the dialogue between Clifford and Warwick is absent.

    • Some lines are also added to the play. In Act 1, Scene 1, two lines are added to Salisbury's vow to support York if he can prove he is a legitimate heir to the crown; "The reverence of mine age and the Neville's name/Is of no little force if I command." In Act 1, Scene 3, two lines are added to the conversation between Margaret and Thump, where Thump mistakes the word 'usurper' for 'usurer' and is corrected by Margaret. In Act 2, Scene 1, the conversation between Humphrey and Beaufort is extended, wherein Humphrey says that Beaufort was born "in bastardy".

    • Several lines are spoken by characters other than who speak in the Folio text. In Act 1, Scene 3, Humphrey's line "This is the law, and this Duke Humphrey's doom" is given to Henry. In Act 1, Scene 4, during the conjuration, there is no separate spirit in the scene; all the spirit's dialogue is spoken 'through' Magarey Jourdayne. Also, later in that scene, it is Buckingham who reads the prophecies, not York. In Act 4, Scene 1, the second half of line 139 ("Pompey the Great, and Suffolk dies by pirates") is given to the Lieutenant.

    • The character of George Plantagenet is introduced towards the end of the play, just prior to the Battle of St Albans, with which the play closes. In the text however, George is not introduced until Henry VI, Part 3, Act 2, Scene 2

    • The play ends slightly differently to how it is indicated in the text. After the battle, the victorious House of York leave the stage, all except Salisbury, who sadly looks around the field of battle at the many dead bodies.

  • Henry VI, Part 3

    • Lines are omitted from every scene. Some of the more noticeable absences include, the opening twenty-four lines of the first scene. Instead the play begins with Warwick proclaiming "This is the palace of the fearful king". Also in Act 1, Scene 1, all references to Margaret chairing a session of parliament are absent, as are her references to the pains of child birth, and Henry's shameful behaviour in disinheriting his son. Absent from Act 1, Scene 3 is Rutland's appeal to Clifford's paternal instincts. In Act 2, Scene 1, all references to Clarence's entry into the conflict are absent, as he had already been introduced as a combatant at the end of 2 Henry VI. During the debate between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians in Act 2, Scene 2, Richard's "Northumberland, I hold thee reverentially" is absent. In Act 3, Scene 3, Warwick's reference to Salisbury's death and the incident with his niece are both absent. In Act 4, Scene 4, the first twelve lines are absent (where Elizabeth reports to Rivers that Edward has been captured). In Act 5, Scene 6, Henry's references to Dedalus and Icarus are absent.

    • Some lines are also added to the play. In Act 1, Scene 1, four lines are added at the beginning of Henry's declaration that he would rather see civil war than yield the throne; "Ah Plantagenet, why seekest thou to depose me?/Are we not both Plantagenets by birth?/And from two brothers lineally descent?/Suppose by right and equity thou be king...". Also in Act 1, Scene 1, a line is inserted when York asks Henry if he agrees to the truce and Henry replies "Convey the soldiers hence, and then I will." Most significant is in Act 5, Scene 1, where the incident involving Clarence's return to the Lancastrian side is completely different to the text found in the Folio, and is taken entirely from the octavo text of The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York (1595).

    • Several lines are spoken by characters other than who speak in the Folio text, particularly in relation to Clarence. For example, in Act 2, Scene 1, it is Clarence who says Edward's "I wonder how our princely father scaped,/Or whether he be scaped away or no/From Clifford and Northumberland's pursuit". Clarence also speaks Richard's "Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun,/Not separated with the racking clouds/But severed in a pale clear-shining sky" Edward's "Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon/Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay" and Richard's "Great lord of Warwick, if we should recount/Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance/Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told,/The words would add more anguish than the wounds".

    • The presentation of the character of Montague also differs from the Folio text. Montague is not present in Act 1, Scene 1, and as such, his lines are either spoken by Clarence or omitted. He is introduced in Act 1, Scene 2, but with some notable changes to the text; when York is giving his men instructions, his order to Montague, "Brother, thou shalt to London presently" (l.36) is changed to "Cousin, thou shalt to London presently", York's reiteration of the order "My brother Montague shall post to London" (l.54) is changed to "Hast you to London my cousin Montague", and Montague's "Brother, I go, I'll win them, fear it not" (l.60) is changed to "Cousin, I go, I'll win them, fear it not." Additionally, the report of the death of Warwick and Montague's brother Thomas Neville in Act 2, Scene 3 is different from the text; 'son' in line 15 is replaced with 'father', 'brother' in line 19 is replaced with 'son', and 'gentleman' in line 23 is replaced with 'Salisbury'.

  • Cymbeline

    • Acts 4 and 5 are heavily cut, and scenes and speeches are freely rearranged.

  • Timon of Athens

    • Act 3, Scene 3 is heavily cut; the servant's monologue is totally omitted, though Lucilius appears in the background for the scene. Various smaller cuts.

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    • Act 1, Scene 1 begins with Mercatio and Eglamour attempting to formally woo Julia; Mercatio by showing her a coffer overflowing with gold coins, Eglamour by displaying a parchment detailing his family history (there is no dialogue in this scene).

    • The capture of Silvia and the flight of Eglamour is seen, as opposed to merely being described.

    • Eglamour is also present at the end of Act 5, Scene 4 (once again without any dialogue).

  Footnotes

  
  Unless otherwise stated, all background information in this section and all behind-the-scenes information in the next is taken from Martin Wiggins, The (BBC DVD) Shakespeare Collection: Viewing Notes (booklet included with the DVD box-set) At the time, Shakespeare's complete canon was considered to be thirty-seven plays; seventeen comedies, ten tragedies, and ten histories. These comprised the thirty-six plays from the First Folio of 1623, plus Pericles, Prince of Tyre (which had been added to the Third Folio in 1664). As The Two Noble Kinsmen was considered to be primarily the work of John Fletcher and Shakespeare's authorship of Edward III was still in doubt, these two plays were not included in the series. Kenneth S. Rothwell, 'The Television Revolution' (2002) All information taken from the British Universities Film & Video Council "Michael Brooke, Screenonline: The Spread of the Eagle'Susan Willis,The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon, (Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991), 10-11^Michael Brooke, Screenonline: The BBC Television Shakespeare^ Martin Wiggins, The (BBC DVD) Shakespeare Collection: Viewing Notes (booklet included with the DVD box-set), 6^Michael Brooke, Screenonline: Shakespeare on Television"Michael Brooke, Screenonline: The Taming of the Shrew^abcdefg The first transmission date in the United States is earlier than that in the United Kingdom. See here for details Pericles was not included in the First Folio, and wasn't published under Shakespeare's name until the Third Folio in 1664
  
  

  External links

  
  Screenonline: The BBC Television Shakespeare, by Michael Brooke'The Television Revolution'; Chapter 4 of Shakespeare on Screen: A Chronicle History by Kenneth S. Rothwell; taken from the book Shakespeare on Screen: An International Filmography and Videography by Rothwell and Annabelle Henkin Melzer (New York: Neal-Schuman, 1990)

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