SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Television eight-part series in which on consecutive evenings actors perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Episode 6 - Stephen Tompkinson performs ‘If music be the film of love’ from Twelfth Night (I i), Benedict Wong performs ‘The barge she sat in like a burnished throne’ from Antony and Cleopatra (II ii), Charlies Brooks reads Sonnet 139 ‘O, call not me to justify the wrong that my unkindness lays upon my heart’, Delroy Atkinson, Ashley Campbell and Oliver Mason perform ‘O mistress mine’ from Twelfth Night (II iii), Mark Lamaar performs ‘O, that this too too solid flesh would melt’ from Hamlet (I ii), Tracy-Ann Oberman reads Sonnet 67 ‘Being your slave, what should I do but tend upon the hours and times of your desire?', Lucy Gaskell reads Sonnet 126 ‘O thou my lovely boy, who in thy power dost hold Time’s fickle glass’, Meera Syal performs ‘Love first learned in a lady’s eyes’ from Love’s Labour’s Lost (IV iii), Delroy Atkinson, Ashley Campbell and Oliver Mason perform ‘Sigh no more ladies’ from Much Ado About Nothing (II iii), Lemn Sissay reads sonnet 15 ‘When I consider everything that grows’, Seeta Indrani performs ‘Romeo, Romeo, wherefore out thou Romeo?' from Romeo and Juliet (II ii) and Kathryn Drysdale reads Sonnet 116 ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment’.

Series

From Bard to Verse

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Television

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Transmission details

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

Duration

15 mins

Credits

Contributor

Kathryn Drysdale

Cast

Ashley Campbell	Balthasar
Ashley Campbell	Feste
Benedict Wong	Enobarbus
Charlie Brooks
Daniela Nardini	Lady Macbeth
Delroy Atkinson	Balthasar
Delroy Atkinson	Feste
Lemn Sissay
Lucy Gaskell
Meera Syal	Berowne
Oliver Mason	Balthasar
Oliver Mason	Feste
Seeta Indrani	Juliet
Stephen Tompkinson	Orsino, Duke of Illyria
Tracy-Ann Oberman

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
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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
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London
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