SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 3 - David Walliams performs ‘Honour pricks me on, but how if honour pricks me off’ from Henry IV. Part 1 (V i), Mark Gatiss performs ‘Virture, a fig. ‘tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus..' from Othello (I iii), Mark Lamaar performs ‘I’ll example you with thievery, the sun’s the thing...' from Timon of Athens (IV iii), Delory Atkinson, Ashley Campbell and Oliver Mason perform ‘Lawn as white as driven snow’ from The Winter’s Tale (IV iv), Leo Gregory performs ‘As young as I am I have observed these three swashers’ from Henry V (IV ii), Ralf Little performs ‘What a fool honesty is. In trust his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman’ from The Winter’s Tale (IV iv), Kathryn Drysdale performs ‘It is the bright day that brings forth the adder’ from Julius Caesar (II ii), Simon Pegg performs ‘So oft it chances in particular men’ from Hamlet (AI iv), Alistair McGowan performs ‘Even now I curse the day’ from Titus Andronicus (V i) Catherine Tate performs ‘Thus have I politicly begun my reign’ from The Taming of the Shrew (IV i ) and Fraser James performs ‘Is this a dagger I see before me?' from Macbeth (II i).

Series

From Bard to Verse

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Television

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Transmission details

7 Apr 2004 at 19:15 (Channel: BBC3)

Duration

15 mins

Credits

Cast

Alistair McGowan	Aaron
Ashley Campbell	Autolycus
Catherine Tate	Petruchio
David Walliams	Sir John Falstaff
Delroy Atkinson	Autolycus
Fraser James	Macbeth
Kathryn Drysdale	Marcus Brutus
Leo Gregory	Boy (Falstaff’s page)
Mark Gatiss	Iago
Mark Lamaar	Timon of Athens
Oliver Mason	Autolycus
Ralf Little	Autolycus
Simon Pegg	Hamlet

Additional Details

Production type

Documentary/Educational/News

Subjects

Drama; English language and literature

Keywords

poetry; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Production Company

Name

Baby Cow Productions

Archive

Name

BFI National Archive

Web

http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/searching-access-collections/research-viewing-services External site opens in new window

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7436 0165

Address

21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN

Name

Learning on Screen Off-Air Recording Back-up Service

Email

services@bufvc.ac.uk

Web

http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/offair External site opens in new window

Phone

020 7393 1514

Fax

020 7393 1555

Address

For Learning on Screen Members only
77 Wells Street
London
W1T 3QJ