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The BBC Television Shakespeare

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Premiered Date
December 3, 1978
Genre
Drama
Network
BBC
Cast
Alan Rickman, Helen Mirren, John Rhys-Davies, Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Tim Pigott-Smith, Elizabeth Spriggs, Virginia McKenna, John Gielgud
1946-2016
Alan Rickman

as Tybalt

78
Helen Mirren

as Rosalind

79
John Rhys-Davies

as Capucius, Ambassador from Emperor Charles V

85
Derek Jacobi

as Richard II

93
Claire Bloom

as Katharine of Aragon

1946-2017
Tim Pigott-Smith

as Angelo

1929-2008
Elizabeth Spriggs

as Calpurnia

92
Virginia McKenna

as Portia

1904-2000
John Gielgud

as Chorus

About The BBC Television Shakespeare

About

A series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare. The series spanned seven seasons and thirty-seven episodes. 

Trivia

The first episode was set to be Much Ado About Nothing. But it was replaced with Romeo and Juliet. 

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