SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 4 - Benedict Wong performs ‘Hang there my verse in witness of my love’ (III ii), from As You Like It, Ronni Ancona performs ‘His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm crested the world’ (V ii) from Antony and Cleopatra, David Harewood performs ‘Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright’ from Romeo and Juliet (1 v), Ralf Little performs ‘To leave my Julia shall I be forsworn’ from Two Gentlemen of Verona (II vi). Seeta Indrani reads Sonnet 52 ‘So am I as the rich whose blessed key can bring him to the sweet’ and Leo Gregory reads sonnet 40 ‘take all my loves, my love, yea take them all’, Delroy Atkinson, Ashley Campbell and Oliver Mason perform ‘Fie on sinful fantasy, fie on lust and lechery’ from The Merry Wives of Windsor (V v). Catherine Tate performs ‘How happy some o’er others can be, In Athens I am thought as fair as she’ from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (I i), Daniela Nardini reads sonnet 147 ‘My love is as a fever longing still for that which nurseth the disease’, Stephen Tompkinson performs ‘O, beware my lord of jealousy’ from Othello (III iii) and Fraser James performs ‘there have been, or I am much deceived, cukolds ere now’ (I ii) from The Winter’s Tale.

Series

From Bard to Verse

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Television

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Transmission details

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

Duration

15 mins

Credits

Cast

Ashley Campbell	Fairy
Benedict Wong	Orlando
Catherine Tate	Helena
Daniela Nardini
David Harewood	Romeo
Delroy Atkinson	Fairy
Fraser James	Leontes, King of Sicily
Leo Gregory
Oliver Mason	Fairy
Ralf Little	Proteus
Ronni Ancona	Cleopatra
Seeta Indrani
Stephen Tompkinson	Iago

Additional Details

Production type

Documentary/Educational/News

Subjects

Drama; English language and literature

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Production Company

Name

Baby Cow Productions

Archive

Name

BFI National Archive

Web

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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

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Phone

020 7393 1514

Fax

020 7393 1555

Address

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