The BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 5

The BBC Television Shakespeare - Season 5

Season 5

Network
Episodes6
DatesSep 19, 1982 - Jan 23, 1983
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Episodes

King Lear
Season 5Episode 1150 min

King Lear

Classic play by William Shakespeare about an ageing King who decides to divide his Kingdom between his three daughters.
Sep 19, 1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Season 5Episode 2150 min

The Merry Wives of Windsor

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.
Dec 28, 1982
King Henry the Sixth, Part I
Season 5Episode 3150 min

King Henry the Sixth, Part I

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.
Jan 2, 1983
King Henry the Sixth, Part II
Season 5Episode 4150 min

King Henry the Sixth, Part II

The BBC's screen production of William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II.
Jan 9, 1983
King Henry the Sixth, Part III
Season 5Episode 5150 min

King Henry the Sixth, Part III

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.
Jan 16, 1983
The Tragedy of Richard III
Season 5Episode 6150 min

The Tragedy of Richard III

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.
Jan 23, 1983

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