Shakespeare Resources

BBC, 2012, 52 minutes
Shakespeare Uncovered, Series I
" In Twelfth Night and As You Like It, Joely Richardson investigates (with a major contribution from her mother Vanessa Redgrave) the legacy of the two great comedies and the great comic heroines created by Shakespeare in those hugely popular plays. Shakespeare's comic heroines are well known to be some of his greatest creations and in this film Joely looks at Viola in Twelfth Night, washed up on a foreign shore, having (for her own safety) to disguise herself as a man and then falling in love with the man she is working for."

BBC, 2012, 52 minutes
Shakespeare Uncovered, Series I
"An acclaimed Hamlet in the Royal Shakespeare Company's hit production, David Tennant meets fellow actors who've tackled this most iconic of roles, including superstar Jude Law, and compares notes on the role's titanic challenges. Tennant digs deep into the text about the doomed Danish Prince alongside the actors Simon Russell Beale and Ben Whishaw."

BBC, 2012, 52 minutes
Shakespeare Uncovered, Series I
"He will give the devil his due. Jeremy Irons researches Shakespeare's history plays as well as the differences between the real history and the father-son drama that Shakespeare creates."

BBC, 2012, 53 minutes
Shakespeare Uncovered, Series I
"There's daggers in men's smiles. Ethan Hawke takes you along as he researches the part of Shakespeare's murderous Macbeth."

BBC, 2012, 52 minutes
Shakespeare Uncovered, Series I
"You may my glories and my state depose, but not my griefs; still am I king of those. Derek Jacobi looks at Richard II and returns to a role he played 30 years ago: the story of a king who loses his crown."

BBC, 2012, 52 minutes
Shakespeare Uncovered, Series I
"Trevor Nunn, the legendary director who has helmed 30 of Shakespeare's 37 plays - and aims to complete them all before he retires - takes us through the magical and mysterious world created in the playwright's last complete work."

PBS, 2015, 53 minutes
Shakespeare uncovered. Season 2, episode 1
Hugh Bonneville started his career understudying Ralph Fiennes as Lysander, one of the four lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream. They meet up to try to untangle the extraordinary plot of one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular plays, a great comedy of love and enchantment with a delicate balance between comedy and tragedy, the natural and the supernatural.

PBS, 2015, 52 minutes
Shakespeare uncovered. Season 2, episode 2
One of Shakespeare's greatest tragic roles, King Lear was, in fact, a real king, and the premise of Lear dividing his kingdom among his daughters is, for the most part, supposedly true. One of Shakespeare's later plays, its ending may reflect something of his own mature cynicism. The powers of good fail, but Plummer finds that beneath the cosmic emptiness, the possibility of love survives.